Analysis Without Measurement

Donald W. Katzner (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

320 Seiten

2009
Cambridge University Press (Verlag)
978-0-521-10290-2 (ISBN)

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In plying their trade, social scientists often are confronted with significant phenomena that appear incapable of measurement. Past practice would suggest that the way to deal with these cases is to work harder at finding appropriate measures so that standard quantitative analysis can still be applied. Professor Katzner's approach, however is quite different. Rather than concentrating on the construction of measures, he raises the question of how such phenomena can be investigated and understood in the absence of numerical gauges to represent them.

1. Introduction; 2. Notes on measurement; Part I. Theoretical methods: 3. Basic concepts; 4. Algebraic structure; 5. Analysis of specific systems; 6. General Systems; 7. Some epistemological considerations; Part II. Applications to theoretical problems: 8. Political systems; 9. Planning; 10. Simultaneous change and modernization; 11. Profits, optimality, and the social division of labor in the firm; Part III. Empirical verification: 12. Statistical background; 13. Empirical relations among variables; 14. An empirical application: occupational preferences and the quality of life; 15. Getting on without measures.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	19.3.2009
Zusatzinfo	Worked examples or Exercises
Verlagsort	Cambridge
Sprache	englisch
Maße	152 x 229 mm
Gewicht	470 g
Themenwelt	Wirtschaft ► Volkswirtschaftslehre ► Ökonometrie
ISBN-10	0-521-10290-1 / 0521102901
ISBN-13	978-0-521-10290-2 / 9780521102902
Zustand	Neuware