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Rodolfo Benini e la semiologia economica nell'Italia post-unitaria (Rodolfo Benini and economic semiology in post-unification Italy)

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  • Alberto Baffigi

    (Banca d'Italia)

Abstract

Italian statistics in the decades following political unification (1861) developed along two main strands. An institutionally based statistics was promoted, with surveys and monographies, by the Statistical Division, at the Ministry of Agriculture Industry and Commerce. The other statistics was mainly academic and it can be considered as a science of economic signs, a systematic method to interpret economic symptoms with the aim to make economic diagnoses and forecasts. Historians of Italian statistics generally overlooked this second strand of studies. It was the so called economic semiology, which burgeoned in Europe, since the mid-eighties in the nineteenth century. Rodolfo Benini was one of the leading international scholars within this discipline. This paper focuses on Benini’s contributions in this field. He pioneered economic semiology with interesting applications which were strictly welded with his civic engagement aimed at promoting a more rigorous and systematic public statistics

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  • Alberto Baffigi, 2008. "Rodolfo Benini e la semiologia economica nell'Italia post-unitaria (Rodolfo Benini and economic semiology in post-unification Italy)," Il Pensiero Economico Italiano, Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa - Roma, vol. 16(1), pages 67-88.
    • Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:16:y:2008:1:5:p:67-88
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    Keywords

    storia della statistica; Rodolfo Benini; semiologia economica (history of statistics; Rodolfo Benini; economic semiology);
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    JEL classification:

    • B19 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - History of Economic Thought through 1925 - - - Other
    • B41 - Schools of Economic Thought and Methodology - - Economic Methodology - - - Economic Methodology
    • C43 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric and Statistical Methods: Special Topics - - - Index Numbers and Aggregation
    • C53 - Mathematical and Quantitative Methods - - Econometric Modeling - - - Forecasting and Prediction Models; Simulation Methods

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