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Some British Empiricists in the Social Sciences, 1650-1900 (Raffaele Mattioli Lectures)
Some British Empiricists in the Social Sciences 16501900 - Raffaele Mattioli Lectures Author:Richard Stone 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 devel... more »opment 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.« less