In this workshop organized at Nantes by Boris Samuel and me on May 5 and 6, 2015 we will investigate the role of indicators in economic development. We will explore how numbers structure knowledge about economic development and how they give rise to social...
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Category: Gerardo Serra
Call for papers WEHC 2015: Counting people, understanding economies: global histories of registration and demographic statistics
Gerardo Serra (Sussex) and I are issuing a call for papers for the panel on 'Counting People, Understanding Economies: Global Histories of Registration and Demographic Statistics' that we set up for the forthcoming World Economic History Congress in Kyoto (3-7 August 2015). Interested contributors should contact...
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Just Published: Measuring African Development: Past and Present
Very happy to the see Measuring African Development: Past and Present in print. You can read an open access of the introduction to the book here. The volume takes you through the very first household budget surveys and national account estimates during colonial rule...
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Africa at LSE reviews my book – and an interview with the Africa Research Institute
Gerardo Serra, for sale who is a PhD student in the Department of Economic History at the London School of Economics and does fascinating work on the political economy of statistics in Ghana and the Gold Coast reviews Poor Numbers for the Africa at...
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