What’s old is new,and new is old: History and geography’s quantitative revolutions

Abstract

The article provides a critical commentary on papers by Ron Johnston et al. (2014) and Elvin Wyly (2014) about the different forms of geography’s quantitative revolution. The paper argues that in both cases the respective authors should have striven for a more robust historical exploration.

Keywords

big data computerization George Zipf quantification social physics William Warntz

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