Mickey Mouse Numbers in World History

Part 1 The sowers: the recorders - Porter, McCulloch and Macgregor, Michael G.Mulhall, B.R.Mitchell and William Woodruff, early demographers, world commerce and demography - the Woytinskys; governments and international institutions - the statistics of foreign countries before 1914 - Britain's Board of Trade, The League of Nations, The United Nations. Part 2 The reapers: the great generation - F.W.Taussig and Jacob Viner, the "Stockholm Group" and Gunnar Myrdal, Ragnar Nurkse, W.A.Lewis, Colin Clark, C.K.Hobson and A.H.Imlah, Simon Kuznets; the moderns - Paul Lamartine Yates, Alfred Maizels, Angus Maddison, Phyllis Deane and W.A.Cole, Paul Bairoch, generalists - S.B.Saul, A.J.Brown, H.Myint and L.J.Zimmerman; econometrics - the practitioners - Birnberg, Resnick and Hanson II, the professionals - Douglass C.North and Robert Paul Thomas, Irving B.Kravis and N.F.R.Crafts; the "world system" - Fernand Braudel, Arghiri Emmanuel, Immanuel Wallerstein, Samir Amin, Andre Gunder Frank.