Wrangling with the problem of the Great Depression deepened the marriage between statisticians. [fact]
Speaking at the International Statistical Institute in 1936, Karl Pribram, Mises's old acquaintance from Vienna who was now a leading figure at the International Labour Organization (ILO), tracked the descent of the economists from the clouds to the earth. Economists had begun with abstract notions of a "worldwide universal economic system" but had been forced by events to "work downward from lofty theorizing to the essential realities of economic life." Wrangling with the problem of the Great Depression deepened the marriage between statisticians and economists.
Quinn Slobodian, Globalists, loc. 248