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Notes on the Measurement of Values

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  03 March 2009

Daniel Scott Smith
Daniel Scott Smith
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The author is Professor of History, University of Illinois at Chicago, Chicago, Illinois 60680.
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Abstract

Historians frequently use values to explain behavior. Since their studies focus on the behavior, they have neglected to measure values and change in values. The current practices of historians of values will not yield conclusions usable in the history of behavior.

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Papers Presented at the Forty-fourth Annual Meeting of the Economic History Association
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The Journal of Economic History , Volume 45 , Issue 2 , June 1985 , pp. 213 - 218
Copyright
Copyright © The Economic History Association 1985

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