The Necessity of Quantitative Social Research.
TINBERGEN (Jan).

The Necessity of Quantitative Social Research.

Original offprint. Quarto. [141]-148 pp. Original printed wrappers. A fine copy. Calcutta, Statistical Publishing Society, Reprinted from Sankhya: The Indian Journal of Statistics, Series B, Volume 35, Part 2, 1973.

£450.00

Inscribed ‘With the author’s compliments J. Tinbergen’ in blue ink to the front cover.

A non-technical article in which the Nobel Prize winning Dutch economist Jan Tinbergen expressed his plea for measurement: ‘For some queer and deplorable reason most human beings are more impressed by words than by figures, to the great disadvantage of mankind.’

Tinbergen was awarded the first Nobel Prize in Economics in 1969 jointly with Ragnar Frisch for his services to econometric modelling and measurement.

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