{"id":337,"date":"2010-11-15T18:04:00","date_gmt":"2010-11-15T22:04:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/?p=337"},"modified":"2013-08-28T18:53:39","modified_gmt":"2013-08-28T22:53:39","slug":"analects-of-the-core-48","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/2010\/11\/15\/analects-of-the-core-48\/","title":{"rendered":"Analects of the Core: Smith on quantitative politics"},"content":{"rendered":"<blockquote><p>I have no great faith in political arithmetick<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p>&#8212; Adam Smith, <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/The_Wealth_of_Nations\"><em>An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the <em>Wealth of Nations<\/em><\/em><\/a>, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.libertyfund.org\/details.aspx?id=1765\">Book 4, Chapter 5<\/a>. Today&#8217;s Analect was suggested by Tom Farndon (Core &#8217;10, CAS &#8217;12). Tom writes:<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>For those looking for a deeper explanation as to the processes behind quantitative reasoning in politics, beyond Smith&#8217;s example of the Corn trade, then look into this essay by Robert W. Dimand, <a href=\"http:\/\/books.google.com\/books?id=q7UGFbhGTMEC&amp;pg=PA22&amp;lpg=PA22#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">on Adam Smith and quantitative political economy<\/a>.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I have no great faith in political arithmetick &#8212; Adam Smith, An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Book 4, Chapter 5. Today&#8217;s Analect was suggested by Tom Farndon (Core &#8217;10, CAS &#8217;12). Tom writes: For those looking for a deeper explanation as to the processes behind quantitative reasoning in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1284,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[3691],"tags":[3692],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1284"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=337"}],"version-history":[{"count":6,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":2936,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/337\/revisions\/2936"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=337"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=337"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.bu.edu\/core\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=337"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}