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Keynes among the Statisticians

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Aldrich, John
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This paper considers J. M. Keynes as a statistician and philosopher of statistics and the reaction of English statisticians to his critique of their work. It follows the development of Keynes's thinking through the two versions of his fellowship dissertation The Principles of Probability (1907/8) to his book A Treatise on Probability (1921). It places Keynes's ideas in the context of contemporary English and Continental statistical thought. Of the statisticians considered special attention is paid to the reactions of .four: Edgeworth, Bowley, Jeffreys and R. A. Fisher. Keywords; Keynes, Edgeworth, Bowley, Pearson, Jeffreys, Fisher, Lexis, Bortkiewicz. JEL Classification: B16 B23 B30

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Paper provided by Economics Division, School of Social Sciences, University of Southampton in its series Discussion Paper Series In Economics And Econometrics with number 0611.

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