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Statistics and politics in the 18th century
Statistik und Politik im 18. Jahrhundert
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Abstract The article first gives an overview over the early history of statistics in politics, and then zooms in on the first attempts at establishing a nationwide agrarian statistics in pre-revolutionary France. Attention is given to the obstacles as well as to the long-term successes in standardizing and q... mehr
The article first gives an overview over the early history of statistics in politics, and then zooms in on the first attempts at establishing a nationwide agrarian statistics in pre-revolutionary France. Attention is given to the obstacles as well as to the long-term successes in standardizing and quantifying agrarian productivity. The corresponding learning experience, both in terms of concepts and practice, was a condition for the institutionalization of statistics in the early nineteenth century. It had its roots in the secular-utilitarian agenda of "enlightened absolutism" and its focus on a systematic and state-sponsored relaunch of the national economy. (author's abstract)... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
historische Entwicklung; Physiokratismus; Agrarproduktion; politische Ökonomie; Frankreich; 18. Jahrhundert; Statistik; Quantifizierung
Klassifikation
Forschungsarten der Sozialforschung
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und "Schulen", Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Wirtschaftswissenschaften
Freie Schlagwörter
Kameralistik; politische Arithmetik; Konventionen der Äquivalenz
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2016
Seitenangabe
S. 238-257
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 41 (2016) 2
Heftthema
Conventions and quantification - transdisciplinary perspectives on statistics and classifications
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.41.2016.2.238-257
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)