Some British Empiricists in the Social Sciences, 1650-1900

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Cambridge University Press, 1997 - 501 sider
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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