The Necessity of Quantitative Social Research.

£450 · Offered by Maggs Bros Ltd

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.

• Year: 1973

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