Rein Taagepera
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- September 2008
- ISBN:
- 9780199534661
- eISBN:
- 9780191715921
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Oxford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.1093/acprof:oso/9780199534661.003.0007
- Subject:
- Political Science, Comparative Politics, Political Economy
The numbers published in physics are steppingstones for further inquiry, because they are few and other researchers often make use of them. The numbers published in social sciences are endpoints, ...
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The numbers published in physics are steppingstones for further inquiry, because they are few and other researchers often make use of them. The numbers published in social sciences are endpoints, because they are profligate and, once printed, hardly anyone makes use of them. Astronomy could not develop without overcoming the Ptolemaic syndrome of reducing all motion to circular. Social sciences must overcome their syndrome of reducing all relationships to linear. Physicists, like people in general, start with causal models, while social scientists stand apart by starting with empirical models.Less
The numbers published in physics are steppingstones for further inquiry, because they are few and other researchers often make use of them. The numbers published in social sciences are endpoints, because they are profligate and, once printed, hardly anyone makes use of them. Astronomy could not develop without overcoming the Ptolemaic syndrome of reducing all motion to circular. Social sciences must overcome their syndrome of reducing all relationships to linear. Physicists, like people in general, start with causal models, while social scientists stand apart by starting with empirical models.
- Published in print:
- 2008
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804755405
- eISBN:
- 9780804769761
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804755405.003.0007
- Subject:
- Economics and Finance, Econometrics
This chapter provides a systematic empirical investigation of the human capital economic–growth nexus from a linear perspective. It uses the transition to the steady-state approach formalized by ...
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This chapter provides a systematic empirical investigation of the human capital economic–growth nexus from a linear perspective. It uses the transition to the steady-state approach formalized by Mankiw, Romer, and Weil and the growth accounting methodology. The second section reviews the theoretical and parametric framework that characterizes the growth regression approach of Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (MRW). It also estimates the MRW specification with panel data and growth rates that are averaged across five-year periods. The third section estimates the growth accounting approach to human capital and growth.Less
This chapter provides a systematic empirical investigation of the human capital economic–growth nexus from a linear perspective. It uses the transition to the steady-state approach formalized by Mankiw, Romer, and Weil and the growth accounting methodology. The second section reviews the theoretical and parametric framework that characterizes the growth regression approach of Mankiw, Romer, and Weil (MRW). It also estimates the MRW specification with panel data and growth rates that are averaged across five-year periods. The third section estimates the growth accounting approach to human capital and growth.
Peter Boomgaard
- Published in print:
- 2001
- Published Online:
- October 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780300085396
- eISBN:
- 9780300127591
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Yale University Press
- DOI:
- 10.12987/yale/9780300085396.003.0004
- Subject:
- History, Asian History
This chapter reviews data about man-eating tigers that suggests an inverse linear relationship between population densities and per capita numbers of people killed by tigers. In areas with low ...
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This chapter reviews data about man-eating tigers that suggests an inverse linear relationship between population densities and per capita numbers of people killed by tigers. In areas with low population densities, the number of people killed by tigers was relatively high. The numbers of people killed by tigers per unit of land had a curvilinear relationship to population densities. Thus, in low- and high-population density areas, the probability of being killed by a tiger, expressed per unit of land, was low. The chapter also finds that man-eating as a specialized activity of decrepit individuals or of those who have no alternative prey available is probably a modern phenomenon, in Java perhaps not older than the 1870s, where it came into being when the tigers were about to disappear.Less
This chapter reviews data about man-eating tigers that suggests an inverse linear relationship between population densities and per capita numbers of people killed by tigers. In areas with low population densities, the number of people killed by tigers was relatively high. The numbers of people killed by tigers per unit of land had a curvilinear relationship to population densities. Thus, in low- and high-population density areas, the probability of being killed by a tiger, expressed per unit of land, was low. The chapter also finds that man-eating as a specialized activity of decrepit individuals or of those who have no alternative prey available is probably a modern phenomenon, in Java perhaps not older than the 1870s, where it came into being when the tigers were about to disappear.
