Template-Type: ReDIF-Article 1.0
Author-Name: Giovanni Favero
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Author-Workplace-Name: Università Ca’ Foscari di Venezia - Dipartimento di Scienze Economiche 
Title: La statistica nell'università italiana: manuali e libri di testo dal 1848 al 1922
(Statistics in Italian universities: textbooks from 1848 to 1922)
Abstract: 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.
Classification-JEL: B16
Keywords: 
(History of statistics; university teaching; textbooks)
Journal: Il Pensiero Economico Italiano
Pages: 123-136
Volume: 14
Issue: 1
Year: 2006
File-URL: https://www.libraweb.net/articoli.php?chiave=200606301&rivista=63
Handle: RePEc:pei:journl:v:14:y:2006:1:7:p:123-136