Statistics and the German State, 1900 1945: The Making of Modern Economic Knowledge

by Adam Tooze

Book Overview

Tooze provides an interpretation of the dramatic period of statistical innovation between 1900 and the end of World War II. At the turn of the century, virtually none of the economic statistics that we take for granted today were available. By 1944, the entire repertoire of modern economic statistics was being put to work in wartime economic management. As this book reveals, the Weimar Republic and the Third Reich were in the forefront of statistical...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0521039126
• ISBN13: 9780521039123
• Release Date: August 2007
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"