The emergence of modern Italian statistics -- Entrepreneurship and rivalry : statisticians in the Academy -- The politics of expertise : statisticians and the state -- Form and substance : a science of architectonics -- The theory and practice of totalitarianism
Summary
From the early 1900s to the end of the Second World War, Italian statistics was characterized by original, consistent, and widely recognized scientific contributions, a clearly hegemonic position vis-à-vis Italian social science at that time, and the totalitarian political environment in which it developed during this period
