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Journal de la Société de statistique de Paris
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Journal de la Société de statistique de Paris
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The Power of Large Numbers
French government officials have long been known among Europeans for the special attention they give to the state of their population. In the first half of the nineteenth century, as Paris doubled in size and twice suffered the convulsions of popular revolution, civic leaders looked with alarm at what they deemed a dangerous population explosion. After defeat in the Franco-Prussian War in 1870, however, the falling birthrate generated widespread fears of cultural and national decline. In response, legislators promoted larger families and the view that a well-regulated family life was essential for France.In this innovative work of cultural history, Joshua Cole examines the course of French t...
A History of Econometrics in France
Fascinating and authoritative, this work, challenges the traditional view of the history of econometrics and offers a comprehensive overview of what went on to be one of the defining subsets within the economics profession.
Disciplining Statistics
Disciplining Statistics contrasts the different ways that statistical knowledge was developed and used in England and France during the nineteenth century.
Journal of the Royal Statistical Society
Published papers whose appeal lies in their subject-matter rather than their technical statistical contents. Medical, social, educational, legal,demographic and governmental issues are of particular concern.
Prophets and Patrons: the French University and the Emergence of the Social Sciences
Prophets and Patrons is the first detailed account of the emergence of sociology and related social sciences in France. It emphasizes three social and intellectual groupings in the period from 1880 to 1914: the social statisticians who grew out of governmental ministries, the Durkheimians who were consistently housed in the university, and the "international sociologists" around René Worms, in neither ministries nor the university. Unlike most histories of ideas, Prophets and Patrons portrays the institutional developments that encouraged, discouraged, and rechanneled different styles of research. To understand these developments, a sociological analysis of the French university system is p...
