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Statistical sources in France before World War I
[Zeitschriftenartikel]
Abstract Today, quantitative data are doubtless quite rightly
occupying an increasingly large position in economic history.
We are no longer in the period of vague descriptions
and collections of isolated facts that did not lead to any
valid explanation. The influence of economists involved
historians in the... mehr
Today, quantitative data are doubtless quite rightly
occupying an increasingly large position in economic history.
We are no longer in the period of vague descriptions
and collections of isolated facts that did not lead to any
valid explanation. The influence of economists involved
historians in the handling of figures, essential measures for
those who wish to understand structures and detect movements.
It is nonetheless true that there are serious differences
between the approach of economists and that of historians.
Economists apply reasoning to practically only the
present time or to a relatively short period. Their models
and patterns are difficult to apply to periods when the structures
were markedly different. They also use regular statistical
series covering a considerable number of facts, and
above all series that may not be perfect (perfection is illusory
here) but provide serious guarantees. Historians are
less privileged. They dissect economic systems that are very
different to our own and whose structures have not yet been
closely studied. They possess only sparse statistics whose
reliability seems extremely doubtful. Economists are not
usually faced with the problems of source and critique that
are the daily lot of historians.
This article is aimed less at providing complete results than
stimulating certain research on detail. Our statistical knowledge
and our knowledge of statistical data are still too
fragmentary and imperfect for it to be possible to envisagean absolutely definitive overall study. The reader will find
here only the components of a general problematic. The
main reasons for this attitude are explained below.... weniger
Thesaurusschlagwörter
Frankreich; Wirtschaftsstatistik; Datengewinnung; historische Entwicklung; Statistik; Geschichtsschreibung
Klassifikation
Sozialgeschichte, historische Sozialforschung
Sprache Dokument
Englisch
Publikationsjahr
2005
Seitenangabe
S. 249-258
Zeitschriftentitel
Historical Social Research, 30 (2005) 4
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.30.2005.4.249-258
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Veröffentlichungsversion; begutachtet (peer reviewed)