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La statistica nell'università italiana: manuali e libri di testo dal 1848 al 1922 (Statistics in Italian universities: textbooks from 1848 to 1922)

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  • Giovanni Favero

    (Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche)

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This paper deals with the scientific and disciplinary evolution of statistical studies in Italy from the point of view of the production of textbooks. The analysis of a corpus of textbooks in use in Italian universities during the Risorgimento and in the liberal period allows to track the gradual path toward disciplinary autonomy of statistics from ‘moral sciences’ and then from ‘social sciences’. This path in the Italian case highlights an original eVort to maintain a ‘descriptive’ approach, even if allowing a significant shift in the meaning of the attribute.

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  • Giovanni Favero, 2006. "La statistica nell'università italiana: manuali e libri di testo dal 1848 al 1922 (Statistics in Italian universities: textbooks from 1848 to 1922)," Il Pensiero Economico Italiano, Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa - Roma, vol. 14(1), pages 123-136.
    • Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:14:y:2006:1:7:p:123-136
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    (History of statistics; university teaching; textbooks);
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    • B16 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Quantitative and Mathematical

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