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Sociology of sport --- Recreation --- Play --- Loisir --- --Jeu --- --Social aspects --- Social aspects --- loisirs --- sociologie --- vrijetijdsbesteding --- Manners and customs --- Amusements --- Community centers --- Leisure --- Recreation - Social aspects --- Play - Social aspects --- Jeu --- Jeux --- Aspect social

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Technological forecasting --- Technology and civilization --- Technology --- Social aspects

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STATISTICAL PUBLICATIONS The Statistics Directorate of the OECD publishes data which assist in analysing economic developments at all levels: national accounts, foreign trade, labour force, short term statistics and leading cyclical indicators. Most of these data are available in printed form and on diskette. Data on foreign trade by commodity are available on microfiche and CD-ROM. The inside cover page of this statistical publication gives the reader further details and an enquiry form to obtain more information on content, prices and periodicity. SERVICES STATISTICS ON INTERNATIONAL TRANSACTIONS This joint OECD-Eurostat publication provides statistical data on international trade in services for the twenty-nine OECD Member countries as well as definitions and methodological notes. The data are supplied and published according to the IMF Fifth Manual of the Balance of Payments and the OECD-Eurostat Classification of Trade in Services, which is totally consistent with the balance of payments classification but is more detailed. This book includes summary tables by country and by service category and zone totals for the EU15, EU12, EUR11 and the OECD which are comparable. Tables for individual countries showing data for detailed service categories are also provided. Time series cover the period 1987-1996 as far as data are available.

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This investigation of the overwhelming appeal of quantification in the modern world discusses the development of cultural meanings of objectivity over two centuries. How are we to account for the current prestige and power of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantification is seen as desirable in social and economic investigation as a result of its successes in the study of nature. Theodore Porter is not content with this. Why should the kind of success achieved in the study of stars, molecules, or cells be an attractive model for research on human societies? he asks. And, indeed, how should we understand the pervasiveness of quantification in the sciences of nature? In his view, we should look in the reverse direction: comprehending the attractions of quantification in business, government, and social research will teach us something new about its role in psychology, physics, and medicine. Drawing on a wide range of examples from the laboratory and from the worlds of accounting, insurance, cost-benefit analysis, and civil engineering, Porter shows that it is "exactly wrong" to interpret the drive for quantitative rigor as inherent somehow in the activity of science except where political and social pressures force compromise. Instead, quantification grows from attempts to develop a strategy of impersonality in response to pressures from outside. Objectivity derives its impetus from cultural contexts, quantification becoming most important where elites are weak, where private negotiation is suspect, and where trust is in short supply.

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Economic growth --- Economic development --- Natural resources --- Energy policy --- Social aspects --- Energy and state --- Power resources --- State and energy --- Industrial policy --- Energy conservation --- National resources --- Resources, Natural --- Resource-based communities --- Resource curse --- Government policy --- Economic aspects --- Economic development - Social aspects --- Energy policy - Social aspects - United States