The purpose of this book is to demonstrate that it is possible to do meaningful, significant, and sophisticated analysis in social science when the variables under consideration are, given present knowledge, incapable of measurement. No effort to `measure' the unmeasurable is attempted. Rather, techniques for model building, such as the construction of simultaneous and periodic relation systems that do not require the existence of measures are explored. In addition to presenting a methodology enabling the investigator to deal with the unmeasured, many examples are provided that illustrate how those methods may actually be used. In addition, the book addresses the following: Where has the overwhelming focus on the quantitative (often to the exclusion of the unmeasurable or qualitative) in social science in particular, and in modern societies in general, come from? How can the use of the formalizations of model building, both in the presence and absence of measurement, be justified in social science? What are the dangers of using proxy variables in general in the construction of models, and what are the dangers of treating variables that are only ordinally gauged as if they were cardinally or intervally measured? Finally, when only ordinal calibrations of some variables are available, what analytical methods may legitimately be employed to deal with them?
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Science, as practiced by physicists, chemists, biologists, and other physical scientists, is, no doubt, one of our most successful and respected intellectual enterprises. Read the first page Key Phrases - Statistically Improbable Phrases (SIPs): (learn more)
share equivalence classes, analysis without measurement, cardinally quantified, other worker alters, epistemological parity, unquantified elements, attitude additive, common equivalence class, unquantified variables, most important ordering, critical wage, incentive functions, ordinal utility function, measured closeness, formalist analysis, stationary path, permissible transformation, distinct equivalence classes, ordinal measurement, cardinal scales, admissible transformations, anticipated circumstances, ideal bureaucracies, ideal bureaucracy, importance ranking Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
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share equivalence classes, analysis without measurement, cardinally quantified, other worker alters, epistemological parity, unquantified elements, attitude additive, common equivalence class, unquantified variables, most important ordering, critical wage, incentive functions, ordinal utility function, measured closeness, formalist analysis, stationary path, permissible transformation, distinct equivalence classes, ordinal measurement, cardinal scales, admissible transformations, anticipated circumstances, ideal bureaucracies, ideal bureaucracy, importance ranking Key Phrases - Capitalized Phrases (CAPs): (learn more)
New York, Cambridge University Press, American Economic Review, Douglas Vickers, University of Chicago Press, Journal of Political Economy, Free Press, Beverly Hills, Harvard University Press, Journal of Economic Literature, Princeton University Press, Journal of Post Keynesian Economics, The Reconstruction of Economic Theory, Basic Books, Basil Blackwell, Oxford University Press, Random House, San Francisco, Sociological Economics, Theory of Measurement, Academic Press, Analysis of Social Interaction, Baron Kelvin, Eastern Economic Journal, Electrical Units of Measurement New!
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- The Reconstruction of Economic Theory (Recent Economic Thought) by Philip Mirowski on 5 pages
- Theory of Political Economy by William S. Jevons on page 24, page 58, and page 154
- Economics in Disarray by Peter Willes on page 58, page 59, and page 60
- Elements of Pure Economics by Leon Walras on page 60, page 155, and page 280
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