Storia della Statistica

Questa bibliografia* è un primo risultato, certo non esaustivo, di un lavoro di raccolta dei volumi (collettivi e monografici) che hanno per argomento la storia della statistica, sia come disciplina scientifica che come attività di raccolta ed elaborazione di dati.
Per il momento non si è effettuato lo spoglio dei periodici (ad esclusione di quelli specializzati e dei numeri monografici di riviste che sono stati dedicati al tema), che richiederà un lavoro decisamente più approfondito.

La lista è organizzata in due sezioni: la prima comprende opere di carattere internazionale (studi generali e comparativi); la seconda raccoglie lavori dedicati a singoli paesi, ed è suddivisa in sottosezioni per paese.
Nella sezione generale, così come nelle sottosezioni, sono indicate separatamente alcune edizioni di fonti e opere statistiche del passato particolarmente importanti.
Dalla bibliografia è possibile accedere, laddove esistano, a materiali disponibili on line relativi alle opere citate (edizioni virtuali, riassunti, indici, recensioni).
Si rendono inoltre disponibili, grazie all’autorizzazione ricevuta dagli autori, i testi di alcuni saggi inediti.

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Bibliografia:

  • Actualité et universalité de la pensée scientifique d’Adolphe Quetelet. Actes du colloque organisé à l’occasion du bicentenaire de sa naissance (Bruxelles, Palais des Académies, 24-25 octobre 1996), Bruxelles, Académie Royale de Belgique, 1997.
  • Joëlle Affichard (dir.), Pour une histoire de la statistique: matériaux, Paris, Economica, 1987.  Indice
  • Michel Armatte, Histoire du modèle linéaire : formes et usages en statistique et économétrie jusqu’en 1945, thèse de doctorat, Paris, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1995.
  • José Maria Arribas Macho, Marc Barbut (dir.), Estadìstica y sociedad, Madrid, UNED ediciones, 2002.
  • Jean-Pierre Beaud, Jean-Guy Prévost (eds.), L’ère du chiffre: systèmes statistiques et traditions nationales / The Age of Numbers: Statistical Systems and National Traditions, Montréal, Presses de l’Université du Québec, 2000.
  • J .-P. Beaud, J.-G. Prévost, Systèmes statistiques et traditions nationales / Statistical systems and national traditions (3-16); I. Hacking, Façonner les gens: le seuil de pauvreté (17-36); A. Desrosières, Histoire de la statistique : styles d’écriture et usages sociaux (37-57);
  • J.-P. Beaud, J.-G. Prévost, L’expérience statistique canadienne (61-86);
  • D.A. Worton, Robert H. Coats, architect of Canada’s national statistical system (87-104);
  • M. Anderson, Buiding the American statistical system in the long 19th century (105-130);
  • A. Blum, Tensions et contradictions du système statistique sovietique : de la Révolution à la Seconde Guerre mondiale (131-152);
  • B. Touchelay, L’Insee, histoire d’une institution (153-188);
  • M.-A. Gagnon, Les réseaux de l’internationalisme statistique, 1885-1914 (189-220);
  • D.A. Holly, La Commission de statistique de l’ONU (221-248);
  • B. Godin, S. Ratel, La construction des statistiques sur la science et la technologie (249-276);
  • B. Curtis, The Buller Education Commission; or, the London Statistical Society comes to Canada, 1838-1842 (279-298);
  • L. Schweber, Styles of statistical reasoning : the French liberal tradition reconsidered (299-324);
  • S.T. Wargon, Demography and official statistics in Canada: the case of demolinguistics (325-356);
  • C. Deblock, Le cycle des affaires et la prévision économique: les institutes de conjoncture et la méthode des ‘baromètres’ dans l’entre-deux-guerres (357-410);
  • G. Dostaler, H. Jobin, Keynes, les probabilités et les statistiques: une relation complexe (411-430);
  • M. Armatte, A. Desrosières, Méthode mathématiques et statistiques en économie: nouvelles questions sur d’anciennes querelles (431-482);
  • T. Hentsch, Compter et conter: le dire de la statistique (483-486) ;
  • T.M. Porter, Statistics in the history of social science (489-497)
  • Jean Paul Benzécri, Histoire et préhistoire de l’analyse des données, Paris, Dunod, 1982.
  • Peter L. Bernstein, Against the Gods: the remarkable story of risk, New York, Ny, Wiley, 1996.
  • Jean-Louis Besson (dir.), La cité des chiffres, ou l’illusion des statistiques, Paris, Éditions Autrement, 1992. J.-L. Besson, Les statistques: vraies ou fausses? (26-62);
  • C. Barbeger, Délits et délinquence (70-76);
  • M. Comte, Trois millions de chômeurs (86-99);
  • D. Merllié, Le suicide: modes d’enregistrement (100-116);
  • A. Fouquet, Les statistique dans le débat social (118-129); … ;
  • A. Desrosières, Entre la science universelle et les traditions nationaux (146-159);
  • M. Comte, Le flou et le dur : vers une crise de la statistique? (160-170);
  • L. Thévenot, Des chiffres parlants: mesure statistique et jugement ordinaire () ;
  • B. de Putois, Un pint de vue sur la terre (); J.-L. Besson, Ni excès d’honneur, ni cette indignité (222-225); (264).
  • Jean-Louis Besson, Lahsen Abdelmalki (dir.), L’observé statistique: sens et limites de la connaissance statistique dans les pays développés et en développement, Lyon, Presses Universitaires de Lyon, Ed. Toubkal, 1996
  • Loïc Blondiaux, La fabrique de l’opinion: une histoire sociale des sondages, Paris, Seuil, 1998.
  • Alain Blum, Alain Desrosières, Catherine Gousseff, Jacques Magaud (dir.), Compter l’autre, «Histoire et Mesure», 13, 1998/1-2. C.B. Loza, Juger les chiffres: statut des nombres et pratiques de comptage dans les dénombrements andins, 1542-1560 (13-38);
  • C.Z. Guilmoto, Le texte statistique colonial: à propos des classifications sociales dans l’Inde britannique (39-58);
  • R.R. Gervais, Contrôler, compter, comparer: la production et la gestion de l’information démographique en Haute-Volta avant 1960 (59-75);
  • K. Kateb, La gestion statistique des populations dans l’empire colonial français: le cas de l’Algérie, 1830-1960 (77-112);
  • P. Schor, Compter et classer par race: Hawaii, les Îles Vierges et le recensement américain, 1900-1940 (113-133);
  • C. Behar, Qui compte? ‘Recensements’ et statistiques démographiques dans l’Empire ottoman, du XVIe au XXe siècle (135-146);
  • G. Alleaume, Ph. Fargues, La naissance d’une statistique d’État: le recensement de 1848 en Égypte (147-193);
  • M. Labbé, ‘Race’ et ‘nationalité’ dans les recensements du troisième Reich: de l’auto-declaration au diagnostic racial (195-223).
  • Alain Blum, France Guérin-Pace, Des lettres et des chiffres – Des tests d’intelligence à l’évaluation du « savoir lire », un siècle de polémique, Paris, Fayard, 2000.
  • Marcello Boldrini, Angiolo Maros Dell’Oro, Teorie e metodi della statistica, Milano, Giuffrè, 1965.
  • James Bonar, Theories of population from Raleigh to Arthur Young (1929), London, Frank Cass, 1966.
  • Joan F. Box, R.A. Fisher: the life of a scientist, New York, Ny, Wiley, 1978.
  • Eric Brian, La mesure de l’État: administrateurs et géomètres au XVIIIe siècle, Paris, Albin Michel, 1994.
  • Eric Brian (dir.), Eléments d’histoire des sciences sociales (XVIIIe-XXe siècles), «Revue de synthèse», 118, 1997/4. O. Martin, La mesure en psychologie de Binet à Thurstone, 1900-1930 (457-493);
  • M. Renneville, Rationalité contextuelle et présupposé cognitif. Réflexion épistémologique sur le cas Lombroso (497-528);
  • Martin Bulmer, Kevin Bales, Kathryn K. Sklar (eds.), The social survey in historical perspective, 1880-1940, Cambridge – New York – Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1991. The social survey in historical perspective / Martin Bulmer, Kevin Bales and Kathryn Kish Sklar — The social survey in social perspective, 1830-1930 / Eileen Janes Yeo — Charles Booth’s survey of Life and labour of the people in London 1889-1903 / Kevin Bales — Hull-house maps and papers : social science as women’s work in the 1890s / Kathryn Kish Sklar — The place of social investigation, social theory and social work in the approach to late Victorian and Edwardian social problems: the case of Beatrice Webb and Helen Bosanquet / Jane Lewis — W.E.B. Du Bois as a social investigator : The Philadelphia negro 1899 / Martin Bulmer — Concepts of poverty in the British social surveys from Charles Booth to Arthur Bowley / E.P. Hennock. The part in relation to the whole : how to generalise? : the prehistory of representative sampling / Alain Desrosie`res — The Pittsburgh survey and the social survey movement : a sociological road not taken / Steven R. Cohen — The world of the academic quantifiers : the Columbia University family and its connections / Stephen P. Turner — The decline of the social survey movement and the rise of American empirical sociology / Martin Bulmer — The social survey in Germany before 1933 / Irmela Gorges — Anglo-American contacts in the development of research methods before 1945 / Jennifer Platt — The social survey in historical perspective : a governmental perspective / Roger Davidson — The dangers of castle building : surveying the social survey / Seth Koven
  • Stéphane Callens, Les maîtres de l’erreur: mesure et probabilité au XIXe siècle, París, Presses Universitaires de France, 1997.
  • Georges Canguilhem, The normal and the pathological, Boston, Ma, D. Reidel, 1978 (New York, Ny, Zone Books, 1989).
  • John Carson, The measure of merit: talents, intelligence, and inequality in the French and American Republics, 1750-1940, Princeton, Nj, Princeton University Press, 2006
  • Shoutir K. Chatterjee, Statistical thought: a perspective and history, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 2003.
  • I. Bernard Cohen, The Triumph of Numbers: How Counting Shaped Modern Life, New York, Ny, W. W. Norton & Company, 2005.
  • David Coleman, Roger Schofield (eds.), The state of population theory. Forward from Malthus, London, Blackwell, 1986.
  • Andrew I. Dale, A history of inverse probability, from Thomas Bayes to Karl Pearson, New York, Ny, Springer Verlag, 1991.
  • Andrew I. Dale, Most honourable remembrance: the life and work of Thomas Bayes, New York, Ny, Springer Verlag, 2003.
  • Lorraine J. Daston, The classical probability in the Enlightment, Princeton, Nj, Princeton University Press, 1988.
  • Neil de Marchi, Christopher Gilbert (eds.), The history and methodology of econometrics, Oxford, Oxford University Press, 1990.
  • Alain Desrosières, La politique des grands nombres.  Histoire de la raison statistique, Paris, La Découverte, 1993.The politics of large numbers, translation by C. Naish, Cambridge, Ma, Harvard University Press, 1998.
  • Alain Desrosières, Laurent Thévenot, Les catégories socio-professionnelles, Paris, La Découverte, 1988.
  • Paola Dessi, L’ordine e il caso: discussioni epistemologiche e logiche sulla probabilità da Laplace a Pierce, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1989.
  • Jean-Jacques. Droesbeke, Philippe Tassi, Histoire de la statistique, Paris, Presses universitaires de France, 1990.
  • G. Waldo Dunnington, Carl Friedrich Gauss, titan of science: a study of his life and work, New York, Ny, Hafner, 1955.
  • Jacques Dupâquier, Michel Dupâquier, Histoire de la démographie: la statistique de la population des origines à 1914, Paris, Librairie académique Perrin, 1985.
  • Churchill Eisenhart, The background and evolution of the method of the least squares, Ottawa, International Statistical Institute, 1963.
  • Roy J. Epstein, A history of econometrics, Amsterdam, North-Holland, 1987.
  • European Commission, Monographs of Official Statistics. Papers and proceedings of the colloquium on the history of business-cycle analysis, Luxembourg, Office for Official Publications of the European Communities, 2003.
  • Brian Everitt, David C. Howell (eds.), Encyclopedia of Statistics in Behavioral Science, New York, Ny, Wiley, 2005.  Alcune voci.
  • Jacqueline Feldman, Gérard Lagneau, Benjamin Matalon (dir.), Moyenne, milieu, centre: histoires et usages, Paris, Éditions de l’École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1991. E. Brian, Les moyennes à la Société de statistique de Paris, 1874-1885 (107-134); B. Monjardet, Éléments pour une histoire de la médiane métrique;
  • Derek W. Forrest, Francis Galton: the life and work of a Victorian genius, New York, Ny, Taplinger, 1974.
  • Tore Frängsmyr, Johan L. Heilbron, Tobin E. Rider (eds.), The quantifying spirit in the 18th century, Berkeley, Ca, University of California Press, 1990.
  • Gerd Gigerenzer, Zeno G. Swijtink, Theodore M. Porter, Lorraine Daston, John Beatty, Lorenz Kruger, The empire of chance: how probability changed science and everyday life, Cambridge – New York – Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1989.
  • Charles C. Gillispie, Pierre-Simon Laplace, 1749-1827: A Life in Exact Science, Princeton, Nj, Princeton University Press, 1997.
  • Herman H. Goldstine, A history of numerical analysis from the sixteenth to the nineteenth century, New York, Ny, Springer Verlag, 1977.
  • Charles Gouraud, Histoire du calcul des probabilités depuis ses origines jusqu’à nos jours, Paris, Durand, 1848.
  • Ian Hacking, The Emergence of Probability, Cambridge – New York – Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1975 (2006, 2nd edition with new introduction). L’emergenza della probabilità: ricerca filosofica sulle origini delle idee di probabilità, induzione e inferenza statistica, trad. di M. Piccone, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 1987
  • Ian Hacking, The Taming of Chance, Cambridge – New York – Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1990. Il caso domato, a cura di S. Morini, Milano, Il Saggiatore, 1994.
  • Ian Hacking, The social construction of what?, Cambridge, Ma, Harvard University Press, 1999.
  • Roger Hahn, Pierre Simon Laplace 1749–1827:A Determined Scientist, Cambridge, Ma – London, Harvard University Press, 2005.
  • Maurice Halbwachs, La théorie de l’homme moyen: essai sur Quetelet et la statistique morale, Paris, Alcan, 1912.
  • Anders Hald, A history of probability and statistics and their applications before 1750, New York, Ny, Wiley, 1990.
  • Anders Hald, A history of mathematical statistics, from 1750 to 1930, New York, Ny, Wiley, 1998.
  • Anders Hald, A history of parametric statistical inference from Bernoulli to Fisher, 1713-1935, New York, Ny, Springer Verlag, 2007.
  • Frank H. Hankins, Adolphe Quetelet as statistician, New York, Ny, Longmans, 1908 (New York, Ny, AMS Press, 1968).
  • Michael Heidelberger, Lorenz Kruger, Rosemarie Rheinwald (eds.), Probability since 1800: interdisciplinary studies of scientific development, Bielefeld, B. Kleine Verlag, 1983.
  • Johan L. Heilbron, Lars Magnusson, Björn Wittrock (eds.), The rise of social sciences, Dordrecht, Kluwer Academic Publishers, 1998 («Sociology of the sciences: an international yearbook», 1998). E. Brian, Mathematics, administrative reform  and social science in France at the end of the 18th century (207-224);
  • Johan Heilbron, Remi Lenoir, Gisèle Sapiro (dir.), Pour une histoire des sciences sociales. Hommage à Pierre Bourdieu, coll. Pascale Pargamin, Paris, Fayard, 2004.
  • Chris C. Heyde, Eugene Seneta, Irenée Jules Bienaymé: statistical theory anticipated, New York, Ny, Springer Verlag, 1977.
  • Chris C. Heyde, Eugene Seneta, Statisticians of the Centuries, New York, Ny, Springer Verlag, 2001.
  • Robert A. Horvàth, Quetelet et la statistique de son époque: essais choisis en l’honneur de Quetelet à l’occasion du centenaire de sa mort, Szeged, Szegedi Jozsef Attila Tudomanyegyetem Allam-es Jogtudomanyi Kara, 1976.
  • Marc Hufty (ed.), La pensée comptable: État, néolibéralisme, nouvelle gestion publique, Paris, PUF, 1998.
  • Norman L. Johnson, Samuel Kotz (eds.), Leading personalities in statistical sciences, from the seventeenth century to the present, New York, Ny, Wiley, 1997.
  • Gérard Jorland, Annick Opinel. George Weisz (eds.), Body counts: medical quantification in historical and sociological perspectives, Montreal-Kingston, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 2005.   
  • Bernard Kalaora, Antoine Savoye, Les inventeurs oubliés. Le Play et ses continuateurs aux origines des sciences sociales, Seyssel, Champ Vallon, 1989.  
  • Maurice G. Kendall, Robin L. Plackett (eds.), Studies in the History of Statistics and Probability, London-High Wycombe, Ch. Griffin & C., 1977, vol. II. S.M. Stigler, Laplace, Fisher, and the discovery of the concept of sufficiency (); S.M. Stigler, Simon Newcomb, Percy Daniell, and the history of robust estimation, 1885-1920 (); O.B. Sheynin, Daniel Bernoulli’s work on probability (); …; M.G. Kendall, Measurement in the study of society (35-49); M.G. Kendall, The early history of index numbers (51-62); R.H. Daw, E.S. Pearson, Abraham De Moivre’s 1733 derivation of the normal curve: a bibliographical note (63-66); H.L. Seal, The historical development of the use of generating functions in probability theory (67-86); C. Eisenhart, Boscovich and the combination of observations (88-100); …; P.J. Fitzpatrick, Leading British statisticians of the nineteenth century (180-212); P.F. Lazarsfeld, Notes on the history of quantification in sociology – trends, sources and problems (213-?); …; R.L. Plackett, The discovery of the method of the least squares (279-292); H.O. Lancasrer, Development of the notion of statistical dependence (293-309); S.G. Brush, A history of random processes. I. Brownian movement from Brown to Perrin (347-382);
  • David I. Kertzer, Dominique Arel (eds.), Census and identity: the politics of race, ethnicity, and language in national Censuses, Cambridge – New York – Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 2002. D.I. Kertzer, D. Arel, Censuses, identity formation, and the struggle for political power (1-42); M. Nobles, Racial categorization and Censuses (43-70); C. Goldscheider, Ethnic categorizations in Censuses: comparative observations from Israel, Canada and the United States (71-91); D. Arel, Language categories in Censuses: backward- or forward-looking? (92-120); A. Blum, Resistance to identity categorization in France (121-147); P. Uvin, On counting, categorizing, and violence in Burundi and Rwanda (148-175); D. Abramson, Identity counts: the Soviet legacy and the Census in Uzbekistan (176-200).
  • Judy L. Klein, Statistical visions in time. A history of time series analysis, 1662-1938, Cambridge – New York – Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1997.
  • Judy L. Klein, Mary S. Morgan (eds.), The age of economic measurement, Durham, Nc, Duke University Press, 2001.
  • Joseph Koren (ed.), The History of Statistics. Their Development and Progress in Many Countries, New York, Ny, Macmillan, 1918 (New York, Ny, Bart Franklin, 1970). J. Lottin, The history and development of statistics in Belgium (125-175); J. Cummings, Statistical work of the Federal Government of the United States (); F. Faure, The development and progress of statistics in France ();
  • Samuel Kotz, Norman L. Johnson (eds.), Encyclopedia of statistical sciences, ??, ??, 1983?.
  • William Kruskal, Judith Tanur (eds.), Encyclopedia of statistics, New York, Free Press, 1978.
  • Gérard Leclerc, L’observation de l’homme: une histoire des enquêtes sociales, Paris, Seuil, 1979.
  • Jacques Lottin, Quetelet, statisticien et sociologue, Paris, Alcan; Louvain, Institut Supérieur de Philosophie, 1912.
  • Jacques Mairesse, Suzanne Thave (dir.), Pour une histoire de la statistique: contributions, Paris, Insee, 1977 (Paris, Economica, 1987). M. Dupâquier, quelques étapes dans le développement des publications démographiques au XIXe siècle (111-119); A. Desrosières, Eléments pour une histoire des nomenclatures socio-professionnelles (155-229); …; J. Hook, D’Aristote à Adam Smith: quelques étapes de la statistique allemande entre le XVIIme et le XIXme siècle (477-491); F. Bedarida, Statistique et société en Angleterre au XIXe siècle; T.J. Markovitch, Statistiques industrielles et systèmes politiques;
  • Jacques Mairesse (dir.), Estimations et sondages. Cinq contributions à l’histoire de la statistique, Paris, Economica, 1988. B. Bru, Estimations laplaciennes. Un example: la recherche de la population d’un grand Empire, 1785-1812 (7-46); …; A. Desrosières, La partie pour le tout: comment généraliser? La préhistoire de la contrainte de représentativité (97-116);
  • Leonid E. Maistrov, Probability theory: a historical sketch, New York, Ny, Academic Press, 1974.
  • Angiolo Maros Dell’Oro, Storia del metodo statistico, Milano, Giuffré, 1976.
  • Mary S. Morgan, The history of econometric ideas, Cambridge – New York – Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1990.
  • James W. Nixon, A history of the International Statistical Institute, 1885-1960, The Hague, International Statistical Institute, 1960.
  • Luca Orbetello, John Locke e Port-Royal: il problema della probabilità, Genova, Grafica Bi.Esse, 1964.
  • Hernàn Otero (éd.), Historia y estadìstica, «Anuario IEHS», 14/1999. E. Brian, Del buen observador al estadìstico del Estado: la mundializaciòn de las cifras (15-21); H. Gonzàlez Bollo, Génesis y funciones de los manuales estadìsticos y geogràficos, 1852-1876 (23-42); H. Otero, Demografìa polìtica y ideologìa estadìstica en la estadìstica censal argentina, 1869-1914 (43-70); J.-P. Beaud, J.-G. Prévost, La experiencia estadìstica canadiense (71-91); A. Desrosières, Del trabajo al consumo: la evoluciòn de los usos de las encuestas sobre el presupuesto de las familias (93-123).
  • Johannes Overbeek, History of population theories, Rotterdam, Rotterdam University Press, 1974.
  • Donald B. Owen (ed.), On the history of statistics and probability, New York, Ny – Basel, Dekker, 1976. M.H. Hansen, W.G. Madow, Some important events in the historical development of sample surveys;
  • Gilles Palsky, Des chiffres et des cartes: la cartographie quantitative au XIXe siècle, Paris, Comité des travaux historiques et scientificques, 1996.
  • Karl Pearson, The history of statistics in the 17th and 18th centuries, against the changing background of intellectual, scientific and religious thought, edited by E. Pearson, London, Griffin, 1978.
  • Egon S. Pearson, Maurice G. Kendall (eds.), Studies in the history of statistics and probability, London, Charles Griffin, 1970, vol. I M.G. Kendall, The beginnings of a probability calculus (19-34); M.G. Kendall, Where shall the history of statistics begin? (45-46); M. Greenwood, Medical statistics from Graunt to Farr (?-120); R.L. Plackett, The principle of the arithmetic mean (121-130); …; M.G. Kendall, Daniel Bernoulli on maximum likelihood (155-172); E. Royston, A note on the history of the graphical representation of data (173-181); M.G. Kendall, Thomas Young on coincidences (183-184); K. Pearson, Notes on the history of correlation (185-205); H.L. Seal, The historical development of the Gauss linear model (207-230); O.B. Sheynin, On the early history of the law of large numbers (231-239); … ; M.G. Kendall, Issac Todhunter’s history of the mathematical theory of probability (253-254); M.G. Kendall, Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, 1845-1926 (257-263); K. Pearson, Walter Frank Raphael Weldon, 1860-1906 (265-322); E.S. Pearson, Some incidents in the early history of biometry and statistics, 1890-94 (323-338); E.S. Pearson, Some reflexions on continuity in the development of mathematical statistics, 1885-1920 (339-353); …; M.G. Kendall, George Udny Yule, 1871-1951 (418-426); Y. Poh Seng, Historical Survey of the Development of Sampling Theory and Practice (440-457);
  • Theodore M. Porter, The Rise of Statistical Thinking.  1820-1900, Princeton, Nj,  Princeton University Press, 1986.
  • Le origini del moderno pensiero statistico (1820-1900), a cura di G. Alleva ed E. Lombardo, Firenze, La Nuova Italia, 1993.
  • Theodore M. Porter, Trust in numbers: the pursuit of objectivity in science and public life, Princeton, Nj, Princeton University Press, 1995.
  • Theodore M. Porter, Karl Pearson: the scientific life in a statistical age, Princeton, Nj, Princeton University Press, 2004.  
  • Theodore M. Porter, Dorothy Ross (eds.), The Cambridge History of Science, vol. 7, Modern Social Sciences, Cambridge – New York – Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 2003.
  • Mary Poovey, A history of the modern fact: problems of knowledge in the sciences of wealth and society, Chicago, Il, Chicago University Press, 1998.
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  • Nachum L. Rabinovitch, Probability and statistical inference in ancient and medieval Jewish literature, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 1973.
  • Adrian E. Raftery, Martin A. Tanner, Martin T. Wells, Statistics in the 21st century, Boca Raton, Fl, CRC Press; Alexandria, Va, American Statistical Association, 2002.
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Edizioni di fonti

  • J. Henry Bennett (ed.), Statistical inference and analysis : selected correspondence of R.A. Fisher, Oxford, Clarendon Press, 1990.
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TESTI

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EDIZIONI DI FONTI

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  • Athos Bollettini, La popolazione di Bologna dal secolo XV all’unificazione italiana, Bologna, Zanichelli, 1961.
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Austria (Impero Asburgico) Belgio Francia Germania Paesi Bassi Regno Unito Repubblica Ceca (Cecoslovacchia) Russia (URSS) Spagna Svezia Svizzera

Austria (Impero Asburgico)

  • Geschichte und Ergebnisse der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich 1829-1979. Festschrift aus Anlaß des 150jährigen Bestehens der zentralen amtlichen Statistik in Österreich, Wien, Österreichischen Statistischen Zentralamt, 1979

Belgio

  • Robert André, José Pereira-Roque, La démographie de la Belgique au XIX siècle, Bruxelles, Éditions de l’Université de Bruxelles, 1974

Francia

Testi e strumenti

Bibliografia

  • Keith Baker, Condorcet: from natural philosophy to social matematics, Chicago, Il, University of Chicago Press, 1975.
  • Louis Bergeron (dir.), La Statistique en France à l’époque napoléonienne, Bruxelles, Centre Guillaume Jacquemyns, 1981.
  • Suzanne Bertillon, Vie d´Alphonse Bertillon: inventeur de l’anthropométrie,Paris, Gallimard, 1941.
  • Marie-Noëlle Bourguet, Déchiffrer la France: la statistique départementale à l’époque napoléonienne, Paris, Éditions des archives contemporaines, 1988.
  • Yves Charbit, Du malthusianisme au populationnisme: les économistes français et la population, 1840-1870, Paris, INED, 1981.
  • Alain Drouard, Une inconnue des sciences sociale. La Fondation Alexis Carrel, 1941-1945, París, Editions de la Maison des Sciences de l’Homme, 1992.
  • Albert Ficatier, Un certain regard sur une des fonctions de l’Insee: de la statistique coloniale à la coopération technique, Paris, Insee, 1981.
  • François Fourquet, Les comptes de la puissance: histoire de la comptabilité nationale  et du Plan, Paris, Encres, 1980.
  • Bertrand Gille, Les sources statistiques de l’histoire de France: des enquêtes du XVIIIme siècle à 1870, Paris, Librairie Minard, 1964; Genève, Droz, 1980.
  • Zheng Kang, Lieu de savoir social. La Société de statistique de Paris au XIX siècle, thèse de doctorat, Paris, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Social, 1989.
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  • Philippe Le Gall, Histoire de l’Économétrie (1914-1944). L’érosion du déterminisme, thèse de doctorat, Université Paris  I Panthéon-Sorbonne, 1994.A History of Econometrics in France: From Nature to Models, introduction by M. Morgan, London, Routledge, 2007.
  • Pascal-Gaston Marietti, La statistique générale en France, Rufisque, Imprimerie du Gouvernement, 1947; Paris, PUF, 1949.
  • Jean-Claude Perrot, L’âge d’or de la statistique régionale française (an IV  1804), Paris, Société des études robespierristes, 1977.
  • Jean-Claude Perrot, Stuart J. Woolf, State and statistics in France, 1789-1815, Chur – London – Paris – New York, Harwood Academic Publishers, 1984.
  • Paul-André Rosenthal, L’intelligence démographique: sciences et politiques des populations en France (1930-1960), Paris, Odile Jacob, 2003.
  • BéatriceTouchelay, L’Insee des origines à 1961: évolution et relation avec la réalité économique, politique et sociale, thèse de doctorat, Paris, Université de Paris  XII, 1993.
  • Michel Volle, Histoire de la statistique industrielle, Paris, Economica, 1982.

Edizioni di Fonti

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  • Jean-Baptiste Moheau, Recherches et considérations sur la population de la France (Paris, Moutard, 1778), Paris, INED, 1994.
  • Guy Thuillier, Le premier actuaire de France: Duvillard (1755-1832), Paris, Imprimerie Nationale (Comité pour l’histoire économique et financière de la France), 1997.
  • Louis-René Villermé, Tableau de l’état physique et moral des ouvriers employés dans les manufactures de coton, de laine et de soie [1840], textes réunis par Y. Til, Paris, Union générale d’éditions, 1971. Nuova edizione Paris, EDI, 1989.

Germania

  • 150 Jahre amtliche Statistik in Baden Württemberg: Zum einhundertfünfzigjährigen Jubiläum herausgegeben vom Statistischen Landesamt Baden-Württemberg, Stuttgart, Fink, 1970.
  • Otto Behre, Geschichte der Statistik in Brandenburg und Preussen, Berlin, Karl Heimann, 1905
  • Étienne Coenen, La Konjunkturforschung en Allemagne et en Autriche, Louvain, Éditions Nauwelaerts (Iresp), 1964.
  • David F. Lindenfeld, The practical imagination: the German sciences of State in the nineteenth century, Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 1997.
  • Pierangelo Schiera, Dall’arte di governo alle scienze di stato. Il cameralismo e l’assolutismo tedesco, Milano, Giuffré, 1969.
  • Pierangelo Schiera, Il laboratorio borghese. Scienza e politica nella Germania dell’Ottocento, Bologna, Il Mulino, 1987.
  • Reinhard Stockmann, Angelika Willms-Herget, Erwebsstatistik in Deutschland, Frankfurt, Campus Verlag, 1985.
  • Adam Tooze, Statistics and the German State, 1900-1945: the making of modern economic knowledge, Cambridge , New York – Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 2001.
  • Albert Wissleer, Ernst Wagemann: Begründer des empirischen Konjunkturforschung in Deutschland, Berlin, Duncker und Humblot, 1954.

Paesi Bassi

  • Paul M.M. Klep, Ida H. Stamhuis (eds.), The Statistical Mind in a Pre-Statistical Era: The Netherlands, 1750-1850, Amsterdam, Aksant, 2002. Recensione con lista dei saggi (in olandese)
  • Jacques van Maarseven, M.B.G. Gircour (eds.), A century of statistics: counting, accounting and recounting in the Netherlands, Amsterdam, CBS, 1999
  • Jacques van Maarseven, M.B.G. Gircour, Rudy Schreijnders (eds.), A century rounded up: reflections on the history of the Central Bureau of Statistics in the Netherlands, Amsterdam, CBS, 1999.
  • Ida H. Stamhuis, Cijfers en Aequaties en Kennis der Staatskrachten. Statistiek in Nederland in de negentiende eeuw, Amsterdam, Rodopi, 1989.

Regno Unito

Bibliografia

  • Michael J. Cullen, The Statistical Movement in Early Victorian Britain. The Foundation of Empirical Social Research, New York, Barnes & Noble Books, 1975.
  • Roger Davidson, Whitehall and the labour problem in late-Victorian and Edwardian Britain: a study in official statistics and social control, London, Groom Helm, 1985.
  • John M. Eyler, Victorian social medicine: the ideas and methods of William Farr, London, Johns Hopkins University Press, 1979.
  • David V. Glass, Numbering the people: the eighteenth-century population controversy and the development of Census and vital statistics in Britain, Farnborough, Hants, D.C. Heath, 1973.
  • Victor L. Hilts, Statist and Statistician: Three Studies in the History of Nineteenth Century English Statistical Thought (PhD thesis, Harvard University, 1967), New York, Ny, Arno Press, 1981.
  • Amy C. King, Cecil B. Read. Pathways to probability; history of the mathematics of certainty and chance, New York, Ny, Holt, Rinehart & Winston, 1963.
  • Richard Lawton (ed.), The Census and social structure: an interpretive guide to 19th-century Censuses for England and Wales, London, Frank Cass, 1978.
  • J.A. Banks, The social structure of nineteenth-century England as seen through the Census; J.M. Bellamy, Occupation statistics in the nineteenth-century Censuses; D. Thompson, The religious Census of 1851;
  • Donald MacKenzie, Statistics in Britain, 1865-1930. The Social Construction of Scientific Knowledge, Edinburgh, Edinburgh University Press, 1981.
  • Pauline M.H. Mazumdar, Eugenics, human genetics, and human failings: the Eugenics Society, its sources and its critics in Britain, London, Routledge, 1992.
  • Muriel Nissel, People count: a history of the General Register Office, London, OPCS, 1987.
  • Juan Ignacio Piovani, Alle origini della statistica moderna: la scuola inglese di fine Ottocento, Milano, Franco Angeli, 2006
  • Simon Szreter, Fertility, Class and Gender in Britain, 1860-1940, Cambridge – New York – Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1996.
  • Reg Ward, Ted Doggett, Keeping score: the first fifty years of the Central Statistical Office, London, HMSO, 1991
  • Richard H. Williams, Donald W. Zimmerman, Donald Ross, Bruno D. Zumbo, Twelve British Statisticians (electronic book), Boson Books, 2006. Indice e introduzione.

Edizione di Fonti

  • Edward Higgs, Making sense of the census: the manuscript returns for England and Wales, 1801-1901, London, HMSO, 1989.
  • Edward Higgs, A Clearer Sense of the Census. The Victorian Censuses and Historical Research, London, HMSO, 1996.
  • Martha Vicinus, Bea Nergaard (eds.), Ever Yours, Florence Nightingale. Selected Letters, London, Virago Press, 1989 (Cambridge, Ma, Harvard University Press, 1990).

Repubblica Ceca (Cecoslovacchia)

  • Jaroslav Ceska, Under the Greater German Reich Rule. The Protectorate’s Official Statistics in 1939-1945, Praha, Futura, 2006.

Russia (URSS)

TESTI

Bibliografia

  • Alain Blum, Statistique, démographie et politique: deux études sur l’histoire de la statistique et de la statistique démographique en URSS (1920-1939), Paris, Ined, 1998 («Dossiers et Recherches», 1998/66).
  • Alain Blum, Naître, vivre et mourir en URSS, 1917-1991, Paris, Plon, 1994.
  • Alain Blum, Catherine Gousseff (eds.), Demographic and social statistics (Russia-USSR): policies, administrators and society, «Cahiers du Monde Russe», 38, 1997/4. A. Blum, C. Gousseff, Demographic and social statistics, element for a historical analysis of the Russian and Soviet state (441-456); A. Stanziani, The demographic source materials: between police controls and technocratic utopianism. The case of Russia, 1870-1926 (457-488); M. Mespoulet-Buono, The relations between the center and the regions at the time when statistical offices were set up in the gubernii. The example of the gubstatbiuro in Saratov, 1918-1923 (489-510); G.T. Rittersporn, The message behind the missing data: the state and statistics of suicide in Russia and the USSR (511-524); S.G. Wheatcroft, Soviet statistics of nutrition and mortality during times of famine, 1917-1922 and 1931-1933 (525-558); S. Adamets, Price, crop and consumption statistics at the root of the diversity in the measuremnent of Soviet famines (559-586); N. Moine, Passportization, migration statistics and social identity controls (587-600); J. Cadiot, The relations between the center and the regions as seen from the debate on nationalities at the time of the 1926 Census of the Soviet Union (601-616); C. Lefèvre, On the concepts of unemployment and employment in the USSR during the 1920s and 1930s (617-628).
  • Alain Blum, Martine Mespoulet, L’anarchie bureaucratique: statistique et pouvoir sous Staline, Paris, Editions La Découverte, 2003. Traduzione russa Bjurokraticheskaya anarhiya; Statistika i vlast’ pri Stalin, Moscou, Rosspen, 2005.
  • Ralph S. Clem (ed.), Research guide to the Russian and Soviet Censuses, Ithaca, Ny, Cornell University Press, 1986.
  • Goskomstat, Russia’s State statistics, 1802-1996, Moscow, Goskomstat, 1996.
  • Martine Mespoulet, Personnel et production du bureau statistique de la province de Saratov: histoire d’une professionnalisation interrompue (1880-1930), thèse de doctorat, Paris, École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, 1999.
  • Martine Mespoulet, Statistique et révolution en Russie. Un compromis impossible (1880-1930). Rennes, Presses universitaires de Rennes, 2001.
  • Alessandro Stanziani, L’économie en révolution: le cas russe, 1870-1930, Paris, Albin Michel, 1998.
  • Smilka Zdravkovska, Peter L. Duren (eds.), Golden years of Moscow mathematics, Providence, Ri, American Mathematical Society, 1991.

Edizioni di Fonti

  • Stephen G. Wheatcroft, Robert W. Davies, Materials for a balance of the Soviet economy, 1928-1930, Cambridge – New York – Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1985.

Spagna

  • Instituto Nacional de Estadistica de España, Historia del Instituto Nacional de Estadistica, 1945-1981, Madrid, INE, 1981

Svezia

  • Tore Dalenius, Sampling in Sweden: contributions to the methods and theories of sample survey practice, Stockholm, Almqvist and Wicksell, 1957.

Svizzera

  • Hans Ulrich Jost, Des chiffres et du pouvoir: statisticiens, statistique et autorités politiques en Suisse du XVIIIe au Xxe siècle, Berne, Forum statisticum (Union des Offices Suisses de statistique), 1995.

Argentina Canada India Stati Uniti d’America

Argentina

  • La actividad estadística en la Argentina 1550-1983, Instituto Nacional de Estadisticas y Censos, Buenos Aires, 1983
  • Oscar H. Elìa, Los censos nacionales, Buenos Aires, Imprenta Córdoba, 1946.
  • Hernàn Gonzàlez Bollo, La estadística pública y la expansión del Estado argentino: una historia social y política de una burocracia especializada, 1869-1947, Tesis de Doctorado, Programa de Posgrado en Historia Argentina y Contemporánea Universidad Torcuato Di Tella, 2007.
  • Alberto Martinèz, La estadìstica en la Repùblica Argentina: su pasado, su presente y mejoras de que es susceptible en el porvenir, Buenos Aires, Compañìa Sud-Americana de Billetes de Banco, 1890.
  • Hernàn Otero, Estadística y nación. Una historia conceptual del pensamiento censal de la Argentina moderna, 1869-1914, Buenos Aires,  Editorial Prometeo, 2007.

Canada

Bibliografia

  • Bruce Curtis, The Politics of Population. State Formation, Statistics and the Census of Canada, 1840-1875, Toronto, University of Toronto Press, 2001.
  • George Emery, Facts of life: the social construction of vital statistics, Ontario, 1869-1952, Montreal-Kingston, McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1993
  • Statistics Canada, 75 years and counting: a history of Statistics Canada, Ottawa, Statistics Canada, 1993.
  • Sylvia T. Wargon, La démographie au Canada, 1945-1995, Paris, Ined, 1997 («Dossiers et Recherches», 1997/62).
  • David A. Worton, The Dominion Bureau of Statistics: A History of Canada’s Central Statistical Office and Its Antecedents, 1841-1972, Montreal, McGill University Press, 1998.

Edizioni di Fonti

  • Robert Gourlay, Statistical account of Upper Canada, compiled with a view to a grand system of emigration (London, Simpkin & Marshall, 1822), S.R. Publishers Ltd., 1966.

India

  • Shriram Maheshwari, The census administration under the raj and after, New Delhi, Concept Pub. Co, 1996.

Stati Uniti d’America

  • WilliamAlonso, PaulStarr, (eds.), The Politics of Numbers, New York, Ny, Russell Sage Foundation, 1987.P. Starr, The sociology of official statistics (7-57); …; C. Jencks, The politics of income measurement (83-132); … ; M.J Anderson Conk, The 1980 Census in historical perspective (155-186); W. Petersen, Politics and the Measurement of Ethnicity (187-233); N. Keyfitz, The social and political context of population forecasting (235-258); K. Prewett, Public Statistics and Democratic Politics (261-274); S. Kelman, The political foundations of American statistical policy (275-302); A. Thernstrom, Statistics and the Politics of Minority Representation: The Evolution of the Voting Rights Act Since 1965 (303-327); …; J.I. de Neufville, Federal statistics in local governments (343-362); J.A. Weiss, J.E. Gruber, The managed irrelevance of federal education statistics (363-391); J.W. Duncan, Technology, costs and the new economics of statistics (395-413); P. Starr, R. Corson, Who Will Have the Numbers? The Rise of the Statistical Services Industry and the Politics of Public Data (415-447);
  • Margo J. Anderson, The American Census: a social history, New Haven, Ct, Yale University Press, 1988
  • Margo J. Anderson, Stephen E. Fienberg, Who counts? The politics of Census taking in contemporary America, New York, Ny, Russel Sage Foundation, 1999.
  • Margo J. Anderson Conk, The United States Census and labour force change: a history of occupation statistics, 1870-1940, Ann Arbor, Mi, UMI Research Press, 1980.
  • Simone M. Benoît, Histoire et méthodologie du recensement de la population aux Etats-Unis (1787-1930), suivies de l’étude des Bulletins démographiques dans la même nation, Paris, Recueil Sirey, 1931.
  • James H. Cassedy, Demography in Early America: beginnings of the Statistical Mind, 1600-1800, Cambridge, Ma, Harvard University Press, 1969.
  • Patricia C. Cohen, A calculating people: the spread of numeracy in early America, Chicago, Il, University of Chicago Press, 1982.
  • Jean Converse, Survey research in the United States: roots and emergence, Bekeley, Ca, University of California Press, 1987.
  • Joseph P. Duncan, William C. Shelton, Revolution in United States government statistics, 1926-1976, Washington, Dc, U.S. Department of Commerce, 1978.
  • Joseph P. Goldberg, William T. Moye, The first hundred years of the Bureau of labor statistics, Washington, Dc, GPO, 1985.
  • Susan Herbst, Numbered voices: how opinion polling has shaped American politics, Chicago, Il, University of Chicago Press, 1993.
  • Sarah Igo, The Averaged American: Surveys, Citizens, and the Making of a Mass Public, Cambridge, Ma, Harvard University Press, 2007.
  • James Leiby, Carroll Wright and labor reform: the origins of labor statistics, Cambridge, Ma, Harvard University Press, 1960.
  • Harry M. Marks, The progress of experiment: science and therapeutic reform in the United States from 1900 to 1990, Cambridge – New York – Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1997. Indice e anteprima.
  • Janet Norwood, Organizing to count: change in the Federal Statistical System, Washington, Dc, Urban Institute Press, 1995.
  • Dorothy Ross, The origins of American social science, Cambridge – New York – Melbourne, Cambridge University Press, 1991.
  • Malcom, Rutherford (ed.), The Economic Mind in America: Essays in the History of American Economics, London, Routledge, 1998.  Indice e anteprima.
  • Ann Herbert Scott, Census U.S.A.: Fact Finding for the American People 1790-1970, New York, Ny, Seabury Press, 1968.
  • Christopher C. Sellers, Hazards of the job: from industrial disease to environmental health, Chapel Hill, Nc, University of North Carolina Press, 1997.  Indice e anteprima.
  • Stephen M. Stigler (ed.), American contributions to mathematical statistics in the nineteenth century, New York, Arno Press, 1980, 2 vols.
  • Carroll D. Wright, The history and growth of the United States Census, Washington, Dc, GPO, 1900.
  • Rosemarie Zagarri, The politics of size: representation in the United States, 1776-1850, Ithaca, Ny, Cornell University Press, 1987.

a cura di Giovanni Favero

* Si ringraziano per le preziose indicazioni fornite: Alberto Baffigi, Alain Blum, Filippo Casini, Alain Desrosières, Hernàn Otero, Ted Porter, Nico Randeraad, Francesca Sofia, Eugenio Sonnino, Marco Soresina.