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'This is a book of unusual originality and sophistication. In the burgeoning literature of history of statistics, it is one of the first and unmistakably the best to focus on the production and use of economic numbers ... He provides wonderful insights into the circumstances of the German economy during this traumatic era. In short, he makes the history of economics and of statistics speak to central questions of the historical development of state and economy in Germany ... a work of impressive historical scholarship, a skilful disinterment of issues from a much-worked historical field ... This is a superb book, which deserves to be issued in paperback so it can be widely read.' Ted Porter, Journal of Economic History
'This important and interesting book will be of great value not only to discussions of German political economy in the first half of the twentieth century but also to debates about economic knowledge and how it develops ... extraordinarily ambitious ... compelling reading.' Harold James, Business History Review
'... an original and important book ... a very readable book, stimulating, indeed exciting to the very end.' Knut Borchardt, Historische Zeitschrift
Book Description
Tooze provides an interpretation of the period of dramatic statistical innovation between 1900 and 1945. The Weimar Republic and the Third Reich were in the forefront of statistical innovation in the interwar decades. New ways of measuring the economy were inspired both by contemporary developments in macroeconomic theory and the needs of government. Under the Nazi regime, these statistical tools provided the basis for a radical experiment in economic planning. Based on the German example, Tooze argues for a more wide-ranging reconsideration of the history of modern economic knowledge.
Statistics and the German State, 1900-1945 : The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge (Cambridge Studies in Modern Economic History),J. Adam Tooze,Charles Feinstein,Patrick O'Brien,Barry Supple,Peter Temin,Gianni Toniolo,Cambridge University Press,0521803187,1888-1918,1918-1945,Business / Economics / Finance,Economic Conditions,Economic History,Economics,Europe - General,Germany,History,History: World,Statistical methods,20th century,Business & Economics / Economic History,Economic theory & philosophy,European history: from c 1900 -,Germany--Economic conditions--1888-1918
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