The paper discusses measurement, primarily in economics, from both analytical and historical perspectives. The historical section traces the commitment to ordinalism on the part of economic theorists from the doctrinal disputes between classical economics and marginalism, through the struggle of...

This paper has two sources: One is my own research in three broad areas: business cycles, economic measurement and social choice. In all of these fields I attempted to apply the basic precepts of the scientific method as it is understood in the natural sciences. I found that my effort at using...

Der Ökonom Thomas Schelling, Nobelpreisträger des Jahres 2005, hat ein beeindruckendes Gesamtwerk verfasst. Die von ihm behandelten Themen sind im weiteren Sinne institutionenökonomischer Natur. Sie reichen von militärstrategischen Fragen über Phänomene gelingenden oder misslingenden...