Donald W. Katzner

Analysis Without Measurement

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Rather than concentrating on the construction of measures this book raises the question of how phenomena can be investigated and understood in the absence of numerical gauges to represent them.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 320
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. Oktober 2008
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 522g
• ISBN-13: 9780521102902
• ISBN-10: 0521102901
• Artikelnr.: 26010322

Inhaltsangabe

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.