...Petty's patron Charles II, was Five Discourses on Political Arithmetick. "The method I use," Petty wrote, "is not yet very usual; for, instead of using only...and intellectual arguments, I have taken the course ... to express myself in terms of number, weight, and measure; to use only arguments of sense, and...

...seventeenthcentury ancestor of statistics, "conceived the idea of quantifying society"; he wrote that "instead of using only comparative and superlative words, and intellectual arguments, I ... express myself in terms of Number, Weight and Measure" (quoted in Duden 1991: 147l. Interestingly,...

...to quantitative study. This is what Petty (l690/l963) had in mind when he wrote: The Method I take to do this is not yet very usual: for instead of using...have taken the course (as a Specimen of the Political Arithmetic I have long aimed at) to express myself in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure; to use only...

...mean piece of Science »(7). Petty expose lui-même le ressort de la méthode(8) : «The method [...] is not yet very usual; for instead of using only comparative...intellectual Arguments, I have taken the course (as (3) Petty. Politicul Arithmetick [Arithmétique politique], Londres. Robert Clavel, 1690 [l'ouvrage...

...his Political Arithmetick, written in 1676 but first published in 1690, he writes; The Method I take to do this, is not yet very usual; for instead of...and superlative Words, and intellectual Arguments, 1 have taken the course (as a Specimen of the Political Arithmetick I have long aimed at) to express...

...Political Arithmetick (1690), he described this new form of statecraft as follows: The Method I take to do this, is not yet very usual; for instead of...have taken the course (as a Specimen of the Political Arithmetick I have long aimed at) to express my self in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure; to use...

...the Preface of his Political arithmetick (1690) can be considered as his manifesto. The Method I take to do this, is not yet very usual; for instead of...have taken the course (as a Specimen of the Political Arithmetick I have long aimed at) to express my self in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure; to use...

...desired to reach and of the means by which he proposed to reach it. "The Method I take," he says, " is not yet very usual ; for instead of using only...have taken the course (as a Specimen of the Political Arithmetick I have longed aimed at) to express my self in terms of Number, Weight, or Measure; to use...

...chief work, entitled "Essays in " Political Arithmetic," dated 1679, he says, " The method " I take to do this is not yet very usual, for instead of using...comparative and superlative words and intellectual argn" ments, I have taken the course (as a specimen of the political " arithmetic I have long aimed...

...explicitly a new approach to economic inquiry which he knows to be still unusual. 'Instead.' be says, 'of using only comparative and superlative Words,...and intellectual Arguments, I have taken the course ... to express myself in Terms of Number, Weight, or Measure; to use only Arguments of Sense, and to...