Principes d'économie politique

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Identifikator:: 1737995603

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-113493

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Author:: Gide, Charles http://d-nb.info/gnd/117543985

Title:: Principes d'économie politique

Edition:: 25 éd.

Place of publication:: Paris

Publisher:: Sirey

Year of publication:: 1926

Scope:: IV, 702 Seiten

Digitisation:: 2020

Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: Livre II. La circulation

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12 EMPLOYMENT PSYCHOLOGY ifications of his work to another gauge maker on the other side of the continent, that gauge maker could turn out an exactly similar piece of work. Moreover, he could prove, by means of his instruments, that the work was identical. The chemist does not make up his compounds after a cook-book formula, so many cups of this and so many spoonfuls of that. He weighs his materials on the finest of scales which tell him to a thousandth of a gram what amount he has. The cook-book method is the em pirical or home remedies method and many excellent re sults this method has produced; but no two cooks can ob tain the same result from the same recipe. The scientist can, because his method is standardized and minute, and enables him to speak in terms that always mean the same thing. This statement holds true in any field of facts to which the scientific method has been applied. Another excellent example is the weather report. The weather man is still the subject of frequent jibes. It is a common practice to look at the weather report and then believe the contrary. But how many people are willing to have the weather man replaced by the good old-fashioned goose- bone prophet? And how many would stake their own empirical judgment against the scientific inductions of the weather man? Meteorology is the result of applying the scientific method to the study of atmospheric condi tions, that is, substituting for the crude and unaided human faculties such scientific tests as thermometers, barometers, rain-fall gauges, and other quantitative tests. Consequently, weather men all over the country, in making up their weather reports, can describe atmospheric condi tions to each other in standard and unambiguous terms. There is no Yankee or southern dialect in the science of meteorology.

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