02987nam 2200709Ia 450 991079153830332120231206214434.01-282-86747-497866128674770-7735-7701-710.1515/9780773577015(CKB)2560000000056195(OCoLC)698431328(CaPaEBR)ebrary10424039(SSID)ssj0000443423(PQKBManifestationID)11287360(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000443423(PQKBWorkID)10473712(PQKB)11091696(CEL)433014(CaBNvSL)slc00225580(Au-PeEL)EBL3332157(CaPaEBR)ebr10559108(CaONFJC)MIL286747(OCoLC)923235394(DE-B1597)656047(DE-B1597)9780773577015(VaAlCD)20.500.12592/t7vd1q(MiAaPQ)EBC3332157(MiAaPQ)EBC3271080(EXLCZ)99256000000005619520090330d2009 uy 0engurcn|||||||||txtccrA total science[electronic resource] statistics in liberal and Fascist Italy /Jean-Guy PrévostMontreal ;Ithaca McGill-Queen's University Pressc20091 online resource (346 p.) 0-7735-3539-X Includes bibliographical references and index.The emergence of modern Italian statistics -- Entrepreneurship and rivalry : statisticians in the Academy -- The politics of expertise : statisticians and the state -- Form and substance : a science of architectonics -- The theory and practice of totalitarianism.In A Total Science, Jean-Guy Prévost charts how Italian statistics emerged as a full-fledged discipline, giving rise to a network of university chairs, journals, and other institutions. He focuses on episodes such as the creation of the famous Gini coefficient and the statisticians' participation in Italy's war effort and also analyses the intellectual project to which most statisticians were committed, that of creating a quantitative social science. In doing so he reveals the political and ideological use of the work of statisticians during the Fascist era.FascismItalyHistory20th centuryScience and stateItalyHistory20th centuryStatisticiansItalyHistory20th centuryStatisticsItalyHistory20th centuryItalienswdFascismHistoryScience and stateHistoryStatisticiansHistoryStatisticsHistory314.509/04Prévost Jean-Guy1955-1115741MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910791538303321A total science3734807UNINA