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ways in which the Christian peoples measured the
passage of time were based on calculations made before
the fall of the Roman Empire. The Julian calendar of A.D.
325 was still in use in the age of Rabelais.
The rise of statistics permitted the isolation of economics from
the general social fabric of the sixteenth century:
The Europeans were striving after a higher degree of
quantitative accuracy in many domains during the span
of the eighty years or so that followed. Some of them
attached a novel importance to the amassing of
statistics, and notable of statistics concerning rates of
increase, as guides to economic policy, at the very period
when, with Bodin, Malynes, Laffemas, Montchretien and
Mun, economics first emerged as a separate subject of