Journal article | Zeitschriftenartikel
Statistics and politics in the 18th century
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)
- Alternative title
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Statistik und Politik im 18. Jahrhundert
- ISSN
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0172-6404
- Extent
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Seite(n): 238-257
- Language
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Englisch
- Notes
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Status: Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)
- Bibliographic citation
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Historical Social Research, 41(2)
- Subject
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Wirtschaft
Sozialwissenschaften, Soziologie
Forschungsarten der Sozialforschung
Allgemeines, spezielle Theorien und Schulen, Methoden, Entwicklung und Geschichte der Wirtschaftswissenschaften
historische Entwicklung
Physiokratismus
Agrarproduktion
politische Ökonomie
Frankreich
18. Jahrhundert
Statistik
Quantifizierung
- Event
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Geistige Schöpfung
- (who)
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Behrisch, Lars
- Event
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Veröffentlichung
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Deutschland
- (when)
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2016
- DOI
- URN
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urn:nbn:de:0168-ssoar-468699
- Rights
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GESIS - Leibniz-Institut für Sozialwissenschaften. Bibliothek Köln
- Last update
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21.06.2024, 4:27 PM CEST
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Associated
- Behrisch, Lars
Time of origin
- 2016
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