Culturnomics: the quantitative measurement of the printed word.

You may or may not have come across the new word of the moment “culturnomics” a term used by a research paper just published in the journal Science.  The paper uses data based on a subset of over two trillion words so far scanned by Google in their... Read more...

This chart shows the keyword frequency of “banking,” “socialism,” capitalism” and “free market” in books published from 1800 to 2008.  Click on the link at the bottom of the article to download the PowerPoint chart & analysis.