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Measuring America
Author | : Jason G. Gauthier |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 156 |
Release | : 2002 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : MINN:31951D02245332N |
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Census Surveys Measuring America
Author | : United States. Bureau of the Census |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 24 |
Release | : 1974 |
Genre | : Surveys |
ISBN | : MINN:31951D03693715N |
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Measuring America
Author | : Andro Linklater |
Publsiher | : Penguin |
Total Pages | : 321 |
Release | : 2003-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780452284593 |
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In 1790, America was in enormous debt, having depleted what little money and supplies the country had during its victorious fight for independence. Before the nation's greatest asset, the land west of the Ohio River, could be sold it had to be measured out and mapped. And before that could be done, a uniform set of measurements had to be chosen for the new republic out of the morass of roughly 100,000 different units that were in use in daily life. Measuring America tells the fascinating story of how we ultimately gained the American Customary System—the last traditional system in the world—and how one man's surveying chain indelibly imprinted its dimensions on the land, on cities, and on our culture from coast to coast.
Measuring Poverty in America
Author | : United States. Congress. House. Committee on Ways and Means. Subcommittee on Income Security and Family Support |
Publsiher | : Unknown |
Total Pages | : 96 |
Release | : 2008 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : PSU:000065503966 |
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How s Life in Latin America Measuring Well being for Policy Making
Author | : OECD |
Publsiher | : OECD Publishing |
Total Pages | : 366 |
Release | : 2021-10-28 |
Genre | : Electronic Book |
ISBN | : 9789264685932 |
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Many Latin American countries have experienced improvements in income over recent decades, with several of them now classified as high-income or upper middle-income in terms of conventional metrics. But has this change been mirrored in improvements across the different areas of people’s lives? How’s Life in Latin America? Measuring Well-being for Policy Making addresses this question by presenting comparative evidence for Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) with a focus on 11 LAC countries (Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Costa Rica, the Dominican Republic, Ecuador, Mexico, Paraguay, Peru and Uruguay).
Measuring Inequality of Opportunities in Latin America and the Caribbean
Author | : Ricardo Paes de Barros |
Publsiher | : World Bank Publications |
Total Pages | : 222 |
Release | : 2009-01-13 |
Genre | : Business & Economics |
ISBN | : 9780821377451 |
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Equality of opportunity is about levelling the playing field so that circumstances such as gender, ethnicity, place of birth, or family background do not influence a person's life chances. This book introduces new methods for measuring inequality of opportunities and makes an assessment of its evolution in Latin America over a decade.
Measuring the New World
Author | : Neil Safier |
Publsiher | : University of Chicago Press |
Total Pages | : 406 |
Release | : 2008-11-15 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9780226733562 |
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Prior to 1735, South America was terra incognita to many Europeans. But that year, the Paris Academy of Sciences sent a mission to the Spanish American province of Quito (in present-day Ecuador) to study the curvature of the earth at the Equator. Equipped with quadrants and telescopes, the mission’s participants referred to the transfer of scientific knowledge from Europe to the Andes as a “sacred fire” passing mysteriously through European astronomical instruments to observers in South America.By taking an innovative interdisciplinary look at the traces of this expedition, Measuring the New World examines the transatlantic flow of knowledge from West to East. Through ephemeral monuments and geographical maps, this book explores how the social and cultural worlds of South America contributed to the production of European scientific knowledge during the Enlightenment. Neil Safier uses the notebooks of traveling philosophers, as well as specimens from the expedition, to place this particular scientific endeavor in the larger context of early modern print culture and the emerging intellectual category of scientist as author.
Measuring America
Author | : Andro Linklater |
Publsiher | : Plume |
Total Pages | : 330 |
Release | : 2003-09-30 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : PSU:000054132580 |
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Explains how a single system of weights and measures was developed in order to help survey and map out the vast lands west of the Ohio River and examines the impact of the system on American history and culture.