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Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 April 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12008.003.0011
EISBN: 9780262357401
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 April 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12008.003.0012
EISBN: 9780262357401
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 April 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12008.003.0013
EISBN: 9780262357401
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 April 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12008.003.0014
EISBN: 9780262357401
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 April 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12008.003.0015
EISBN: 9780262357401
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 April 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12008.003.0016
EISBN: 9780262357401
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 April 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12008.003.0017
EISBN: 9780262357401
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 April 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12008.003.0018
EISBN: 9780262357401
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 April 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12008.003.0019
EISBN: 9780262357401
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 April 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12008.003.0020
EISBN: 9780262357401
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 April 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12008.003.0021
EISBN: 9780262357401
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 April 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12008.001.0001
EISBN: 9780262357401
How new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy. When the Great Depression struck, the US government lacked tools to assess the situation; there was no reliable way to gauge the unemployment rate, the number of unemployed, or how many families had abandoned their farms to become migrants. In America by the Numbers , Emmanuel Didier examines the development in the 1930s of one such tool: representative sampling. Didier describes and analyzes the work of New Deal agricultural economists and statisticians who traveled from farm to farm, in search of information that would be useful for planning by farmers and government agencies. Didier shows that their methods were not just simple enumeration; these new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy even as the New Deal shaped the evolution of statistical surveys. Didier explains how statisticians had to become detectives and anthropologists, searching for elements that would help them portray America as a whole. Representative surveys were one of the most effective instruments for their task. He examines pre-Depression survey techniques; the invention of the random sampling method and the development of the Master Sample; and the application of random sampling by employment experts to develop the “Trial Census of Unemployment.”
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 April 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12008.003.0001
EISBN: 9780262357401
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 April 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12008.003.0002
EISBN: 9780262357401
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 April 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12008.003.0003
EISBN: 9780262357401
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 April 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12008.003.0004
EISBN: 9780262357401
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 April 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12008.003.0005
EISBN: 9780262357401
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 April 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12008.003.0006
EISBN: 9780262357401
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 April 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12008.003.0007
EISBN: 9780262357401
Publisher: The MIT Press
Published: 07 April 2020
DOI: 10.7551/mitpress/12008.003.0008
EISBN: 9780262357401