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• The place of moral statistics in the long history of the pricin gof progress is an ambiguous one. On one hand, moral statistics were clearly an important precursor to modern economic indicators. For the first time in American history, moral statistics succeeded in injecting quantiifed measures into everyday American discourse...In an age when traditional forms of social control...were quickly falling victim to industrialization, immigration, individualism, labor commodification, and democracy, moral statistics offered a new path. They showed American elites how statistics could step into such power vacuums and serve as tools not only of mass surveillance but of mass governance. On the othe rhand...the northern reformers who created them often also sought to quell disease, stamp out prostit... (查看原文)

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• the idea of humans as capital has deep roots in English and American history...yet it was only in the 1960s, when Mincer joined forces with Gary Becker and began publishing the Journal of Political Economy, that the actual term "human capital" exploded onto the scene...To measure the success or failure of one's incestment in one's own human capital, economists developed complex econometric measures that relied heavily on personal income earnings surveys supplied and funded by the American government. (查看原文)

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