[open-economics] Moretti's text analysis of World Bank reports

[John Levin]

Dear all,

Just a heads up that the Stanford Literary Lab have published Moretti 
and Pestre's text analysis, or "distant reading", of 50 years of world 
bank reports.

Personally, I find this sort of reading "through the computer"* very 
interesting, and is something I'd love to do with the whole english 
language corpus of economic theory. But it's a big task just to assemble 
the texts, never mind digitally interrogate them. Smaller bodies at a 
time would be more plausible and practical; if anyone in this group are 
interested, or have ideas for similar investigations, I'd be most 
interested to hear them.

PDF direct from:
http://litlab.stanford.edu/LiteraryLabPamphlet9.pdf

(*although there is nothing on method and technique in the pamphlet)

Best,

John

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