Business Attitudes Toward Statistical Investigation in Late Nineteenth Century Italy: A Wool Industrialist from Reticence to Influence

Giovanni Favero

Enterprise & Society, 2011, vol. 12, issue 2, 265-316

Abstract: Statistical representations are usually the result of negotiations and conventions with regard to what should be counted, and how it should be counted. A wide literature has shown that this has been the case for almost any kind of statistical data collected in the last few centuries, from censuses to demographic, social, and economic surveys and time series.

Date: 2011
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