Economics Analyzing Culture with Google Books: Is It Social Science? OPINION: Discovering fun facts by graphing terms found among the 5 million volumes of the Google Books project sure is amusing — but this pursuit dubbed 'culturomics' is not the same as being an historian. See More
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