Provides details on a specific approach to research. The book is relevant to a broad range of disciplines, can be used in teaching and by practitioners, and is focused on an integrated approach to qualitative and quantitative research

We survey the recent literature in economics measuring what is on top of people's minds using open-ended questions. We first provide an overview of studies in political economy, macroeconomics, finance, labor economics, and behavioral economics that have employed such measurement. We next...

This edited collection demonstrates how economic history can be analysed using both quantitative and qualitative methods, connecting statistical research with the social, cultural and psychological aspects of history. With their focus on the time between the end of the commercial revolution and...

The present study devises a computational scheme (and develops a FORTRAN 77 computer program) that may be appropriate to construct Pena’s DP2 (ordinal) synthetic indicator (Z ) from the partial indicators (X ) all of which are ordinal (ranking scores). An attempt has also been made to...