Study week on the econometric approach to development planning

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Identifikator:: 1824422792

URN:: urn:nbn:de:zbw-retromon-217476

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Title:: Study week on the econometric approach to development planning

Place of publication:: Amsterdam [u.a.]

Publisher:: North-Holland Publ. Co. [u.a.]

Year of publication:: 1965

Scope:: XLVII, 1259 S.; graph. Darst.

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Collection:: Economics Books

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Title:: The social transformation for national development / P.C. Mahalanobis, Indian Statistical Institue - Calcutta - India

Collection:: Economics Books

SEMAINE D'ÉTUDE SUR LE ROLE DY L’ANALYSE ECONOMETRIQUE ETC. 1085 2. THE SCIENTIFIC BASE OF THE ADVANCED COUNTRIES 2.1. The scientific base of the modern age can be appre- ciated by even a brief review of the recent history of the advanced countries. Four hundred years ago the generally accepted view was that the earth was at the centre of the universe; the position of human beings was unique and supreme; and the highest sanction of truth was either divine revelation or abstract logical reasoning in the mind of man. In the sixteenth and the seventeenth centuries, there was a com- plete revolution in the picture of the physical world; the earth was seen as a small planet moving round the sun; and the method of empirical observations and experimentation was gradually established in both physical and life sciences. 2.2. Progress was at first slow in the sixteenth century. A few selected names may be recalled to indicate the gradual transformation of ideas. In astronomy, Nicholas Copernicus (1473-1543) supported the view that the planets including the earth itself were revolving in orbits round the sun; Tycho Brahe 1546-1601) supplied astronomical observations of unpreced- anted accuracy to make the next steps possible; JoHANN KEPLER 1571-1630) formulated the descriptive laws of planetary motion; and GALILEO GALILEI (1564-1642) made conscious propaganda in favour of the new philosophy of the universe. [n anatomy, ANDREAS VESALIUS (1514-1564) published his observations on the human body in 1543; in physics, WILLIAM GILBERT (1544-1603) gave an account of magnetism based on trustworthy experiments in 1600; in physiology, WILLIAM HARVEY (1578-1657) described the circulation of the blood in (628; JoHN NAPIER (1550-1617) supplied a convenient tool for computation by the use of logarithms; and RENE DESCARTES (1596-1650), a philosopher, contributed the powerful concepts of coordinates for geometrical representation and of mathemat- ical functions. Francis BACON ( 1561-1626), firmly stated that 1 Mahalanobis I - pag. 15

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