1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910464500003321

Autore

Dale Andrew I

Titolo

Arthur L. Bowley [[electronic resource] ] : a pioneer in modern statistics and economics / / Andrew I. Dale, Samuel Kotz

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Singapore, : World Scientific, c2011

ISBN

1-283-23456-4

9786613234568

981-283-551-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (542 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

KotzSamuel

Disciplina

519.5

519.5092

Soggetti

Mathematical statistics

Economics - Statistical methods

Social sciences - Statistical methods

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Preface; Acknowledgements; Contents; Chapter 1 Biography; 1.1 Introduction; 1.2 Education; 1.3 Early career, family & friends; 1.4 Later career; 1.5 Professional activities; 1.6 Retirement; Chapter 2 Social Statistics; 2.1 Introduction; 2.2Livelihood and Poverty; 2.3Measurement of Social Phenomena; 2.4Has Poverty Diminished?; 2.5New Survey of London Life and Labour; 2.6Consequences of the Great War; 2.7Aspects of population tendency; Chapter 3 National and Official Statistics; 3.1 Introduction; 3.2 Early papers; 3.3 Statistical Studies; 3.4 Official Statistics; 3.5 National Income

Chapter 4 Wages and Incomes4.1 Introduction; 4.2 Early Papers; 4.3 Wages in the United Kingdom; 4.4 Prices and Wages, 1914-1920; 4.5 Wages and Income since 1860; 4.6 RSS presidential address; Chapter 5 Miscellaneous Books; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 England's Foreign Trade; 5.3 British Trade in Wartime; 5.4 The Third Winter of Unemployment; 5.5 Is Unemployment Inevitable?; 5.6 Economic Census of India; Chapter 6 Statistical Papers; 6.1 Introduction; 6.2 Averages; 6.3 On goodness-of-fit; 6.4 The double median; 6.5 Inference from sample to population;



6.6 Statistics in economics

Chapter 7 Statistical Books7.1 Introduction; 7.2 Elements of Statistics; 7.3 Groups and Series; 7.4 An Elementary Manual of Statistics; Chapter 8 Index Numbers; 8.1 Introduction; 8.2 Papers on index numbers; 8.3 Other indices; Chapter 9 Sampling; 9.1 Introduction; 9.2 Representative Sampling; 9.3 Bowley's memorandum on sampling; 9.4 The application of sampling; Chapter 10 Economics; 10.1 Introduction; 10.2 Economic statistics; 10.3 Mathematical Groundwork; Chapter 11 Mathematics; 11.1 Introduction; 11.2 Kinetic energy; 11.3 Mathematics in statistics; 11.4 Pure Mathematics

Chapter 12 Miscellaneous12.1 Introduction; 12.2 Obituaries and Reviews; 12.3 Demography; 12.4 The Economic Service; 12.5 The Dock Labour Inquiry; 12.6 International Housing Statistics; Notes; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Arthur Lyon Bowley, the founding father of modern statistics, was an important and colorful figure and a leader in cementing the foundations of statistical methodology, including survey methodology, and of the applications of statistics to economical and social issues during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. In many respects, he was ahead of his time. The giants in this field around that time were largely concentrated in the British Isles and Scandinavian countries; among these contributors, Arthur Bowley was one of the most active in revolutionizing statistical methodology and its econo



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910813482903321

Titolo

Enemies within : Italian and other internees in Canada and abroad / / edited by Franca Iacovetta, Roberto Perin, and Angelo Principe

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto, [Ontario] ; ; Buffalo, [New York] ; ; London, [England] : , : University of Toronto Press, , 2000

©2000

ISBN

1-282-03708-0

9786612037085

1-4426-7446-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (438 p.)

Collana

Heritage

Disciplina

940.5472710971316

Soggetti

World War, 1939-1945 - Prisoners and prisons, Canadian

Prisoners of war - Canada

Prisoners of war - Italy

Italians - Canada - History

Internment camps - Canada

Livres numeriques.

History

e-books.

Electronic books.

Italy

Canada

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Comparative perspectives on public policy, historical memory, and daily life / Franca Iacovetta and Roberto Perin -- A tangled knot: prelude to 10 June 1940 / Angelo Principe -- Exporting fascism to Canada: Toronto's little Italy / Luigi G. Pennacchio -- The internment of Italian Canadians / Luigi Bruti Liberati -- 'Uneasy neighbours': internment and Hamilton's Italians / Enrico Carlson Cumbo -- A war on ethnicity? The RCMP and internment / Reg Whitaker and Gregory S. Kealey -- The curious case of female internees / Michelle McBride -- The 'camp boys':



interned refugees from nazism / Paula J. Draper -- Political prisoners: the communist internees / Ian Radforth -- The internment of Italians in Australia / R.J.B. Bosworth -- The internment of Italians in Britain / Lucio Sponza -- When Italian Americans were 'enemy aliens' / Rose D. Scherini -- Actor or victim? Mario Duliani and his internment narrative / Roberto Perin -- Images of internment / Gabriele Scardellato -- The politics of redress: the contemporary Ukranian-Canadian campaign / Frances Swyripa -- Redress, collective memory, and the politics of history / Franca Iacovetta and Robert Ventresca.

Sommario/riassunto

In the recent campaign led by the National Congress of Italian Canadians to gain redress for compatriots interned during the Second World War, leaders claimed that the Canadian state had waged a 'war against ethnicity.' Their version of history, argue the editors, drew on selective evidence and glossed over the fascist past of some Italian Canadians. The editors have assembled scholars who, while having diverse views, seek to stimulate informed debate. Enemies Within is the first study of its kind to examine not only the formulation and uneven implementation of internment policy, but the social and gender history of internment. It brings together national and international perspectives. The book offers differing interpretations of Italian internment in Canada, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Australia. It invites comparisons between Italian Canadians and Canada's other internees, including Communists, German Canadians, Ukrainian Canadians and Jewish refugees. Contemporary redress campaigns are examined. Masculinity, female internees, Communist women's release politics, and memory culture are some of the little-studied subjects that also receive attention. This book contains photographs never before seen. A general introduction and four section introductions provide valuable background to the issues being discussed.