Some British Empiricists in the Social Sciences, 1650-1900Cambridge University Press, 1997 - 501 ページ These lectures focus on twelve pioneers of economic, demographic and social statistics ranging from the seventeenth century to the end of the nineteenth century. The first lecture discusses the work of the political arithmeticians including William Petty, Founding Fellow of the Royal Society. The second lecture considers three steps in the development of quantitative economics in the form of Bishop Fleetwood, Arthur Young and Patrick Colquhoun. In the third lecture Stone turns to demography, and to John Graunt, Edmond Halley and William Farr. The fourth lecture deals with social statistics in the persons of Frederick Morton Eden, Florence Nightingale and Charles Booth. |
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Brief Life pp 517 2 An Essay on Public Finance | 26 |
An Economic Plan for Ireland pp 3136 5 Political | 44 |
Brief Life pp 4950 2 The Champion of Political | 68 |
SECOND LECTURE | 117 |
Arthur Young | 141 |
Patrick Colquhoun | 183 |
THIRD LECTURE | 205 |
Brief Life pp 207209 2 The Population | 229 |
Edmond Halley | 237 |
William Farr | 253 |
FOURTH LECTURE | 275 |
Brief Life pp 277278 2 The State of the Poor | 287 |
Colquhouns Works on Poverty and Crime | 294 |
Florence Nightingale | 303 |
Charles Booth | 339 |
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agriculture analysis annual army Arthur Young average Bills of Mortality births British calculations Cambridge census cent century chapter Charles Booth Charles Davenant classes compared consumption cost demographic diseases distribution economic edition Edmond Halley England and Wales English estimates fact figures Fleetwood Florence Nightingale France Frederick Morton Eden gives Gregory King groups Halley Halley's head hospitals houses income and expenditure industry institutions interest Ireland John Graunt Journal King's labour land living London ment million national accounts national income Notebook Observations Office Paper presented Paris parish Patrick Colquhoun persons Petty's political arithmetic political arithmeticians poor population poverty production published Raffaele Mattioli Richard Stone Royal Society Royal Statistical Society sanitary says servants social accounting Source Statistical Society tion Total Treatise wealth William Farr William Petty writing wrote
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476 ページ - ON THE VALUATION OF ANNUITIES AND ASSURANCES on LIVES and SURVIVORSHIPS; on the Construction of Tables of Mortality ; and on the Probabilities and Expectations of Life.