Statistical Studies in the New York Money-Market. Preceded by a Brief

NORTON (John Pease).

Statistical Studies in the New York Money-Market. Preceded by a Brief Analysis Under the Theory of Money and Credit with Statistical Tables, Diagrams and Folding Chart.

FROM THE LIBRARY OF ROYAL STATISTICAL SOCIETY

First edition. 8vo. vi, [2], 108 pp., with 9 plates and large folding statistical graph. Original dark green buckram, dspine lettered in gilt, patterned endpapers (contents slightly dusty and age-toned with various library stamps as per below; extremities slightly worn, a very good copy). New York, Published for the Department of the Social Sciences, Yale University by the Macmillan Company, 1902.

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NORTON (John Pease).

Statistical Studies in the New York Money-Market. Preceded by a Brief Analysis Under the Theory of Money and Credit with Statistical Tables, Diagrams and Folding Chart.

The published version of the American economist John Pease Norton’s doctoral thesis submitted at Yale, where Norton was colleagues with the great economist Irving Fisher. Norton’s book is particularly significant for its use of correlation analysis to investigate the relationship between bank reserves and credit. Judy L. Klein has described Norton’s work as one of the first attempts “to use serial differences in statistical analysis”.

Provenance: from the celebrated library of the Royal Statistical Society, with their round booklabel to front cover and library stamps to title pages and occasional throughout the text.

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Statistical Studies in the New York Money-Market. Preceded by a Brief Analysis Under the Theory of Money and Credit with Statistical Tables, Diagrams and Folding Chart.

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