 Rodolfo Benini e la semiologia economica nell'Italia post-unitaria (Rodolfo Benini and economic semiology in post-unification Italy)Il Pensiero Economico Italiano, 2008, vol. 16, issue 1, 67-88 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 Keywords: storia della statistica; Rodolfo Benini; semiologia economica (history of statistics; Rodolfo Benini; economic semiology) (search for similar items in EconPapers) Downloads: (external link) Related works: Export reference: BibTeX RIS (EndNote, ProCite, RefMan) HTML/Text Persistent link: https://EconPapers.repec.org/RePEc:pei:journl:v:16:y:2008:1:5:p:67-88 Access Statistics for this article Il Pensiero Economico Italiano is currently edited by Massimo Augello and Marco E. L. Guidi More articles in Il Pensiero Economico Italiano from Fabrizio Serra Editore, Pisa - Roma |
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