Timing history: The introduction of graphical analysis in 19th century british economics

Revue d'Histoire des Sciences Humaines

Volumn 7, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 97-127

  Maas, Harro ^a   S morgan, Mary ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

19th century british economics; Causation in history; History of statistics; Time graphs

Indexed keywords

EID: 53749090202     PISSN: 1622468X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3917/rhsh.007.0097     Document Type: Review

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