JSSISI: 1930 to 1937, Vol. XV, Sessions 84th to 90th: Recent submissions
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Some comments upon the report of the Commission on the Registration of Shops
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1935)Problems connected with the distribution of goods to the consumer are receiving much attention nowadays, and before dealing with the various recommendations of the Report it is necessary to have a background from which ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland : eighty-seventh session 1933/1934
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Some aspects of the Italian corporative organisation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1935)In other countries in which the tradition of personal liberty still survives, the study of the Italian corporative organisation has become of the greatest interest, and it has been asked how far society can be organised ... -
Aspects of the agricultural crisis at home and abroad
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1935)A Barrington Lecture on the above subject has recently been given in Cork, Enniscorthy, Limerick and Sligo, and this paper represents the further elaboration of the material collected for that lecture. The paper itself ... -
The minimum wage
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1934)There are many types of minima, which are the outcome of personal negotiations or collective bargaining between employers and employees, and in which training, general skill, special aptitude, intellectual ability, ... -
The session of the International Institute of Statistics at Mexico, 1933
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1934)It is not proposed to give here an account of each paper, but the following summaries of some of the more important papers will give a general idea of their subject matter. The volumes of the Bulletin which will be ... -
The determination of demand curves in relation to wheat
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1934)The ultimate problem of economic analysis is the correlation of variations in associated series of events; the determination whether and to what degree a change in one series is associated with a change in another or ... -
Monetary policy and the Depression
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1934)The economic mechanism is obviously out of gear, and it is an easy solution of the trouble to blame the lubricant. Before, however, arriving at a hasty conclusion, one should pause to consider whether it is not unreasonable ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland: eighty-sixth session 1932/1933
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The national expenditure of the Irish Free State in 1926
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1933)In the Economic Journal, March, 1933, I based an estimate of the national income of the population of the Irish Free State in 1926 on the published official statistics in the reports on the Census of Population and ... -
An analysis showing the objects of expenditure and the sources of revenue of the Irish Free State during the financial years 1925-26,1928-29, 1931-32, 1932-33
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1934)These Tables bring up-to-date the more important figures which were set out in the Paper read before the Society in November, 1930. The detailed record of Expenditure in respect of each year and each group has, however, ... -
The growth of electricity supply and its relations to civilisation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1933)I make no apology for the inaccuracies and discrepancies found in the statistics presented later on; prolonged research and much correspondence would have been necessary to produce statistics on an absolutely comparative ... -
Varied origins of the Irish people
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1933)The study of genealogy is based on the investigation of surnames. -
Some causes and consequences of the low Irish marriage rate
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1933)In countries more happily circumstanced it is only necessary to trace and to account for the fluctuations of the marriage rate. Here it is not only necessary to discover why more people got married during one period ... -
Recent legislation in England and other countries affecting children and young persons
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1933)The Home Office Committee on the treatment of young offenders, over which I presided, spent two years in investigating the difficult problems of child life, and in our Report (Cmd. 2831, 1927). We made many recommendations, ... -
Capitalism and crises
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1933)The paradox of economic distress in the midst of plenty, so prominent in the present depression, appears to be exercising people's minds in a most disturbing manner. The world is apparently glutted with commodities of ... -
The organisation of official statistics in Saorstat Eireann and in some other countries
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1933)In the complexity of modern life, governments and peoples require a vast and ever-increasing fund of measurable facts, or as they are called "statistics," for their work and weal. They require to know the size and ... -
Some ethical and economic aspects of interest
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1932)The suggestion has recently been advanced simultaneously in two very responsible periodicals, the 'Economic Journal' and 'Studies' that modern developments of monetary theory have vindicated the moral teaching of the ... -
The Free State currency problem
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1932)There are three separate issues involved. The first is as to the form in which the assets backing the note issue are held. The second is as between a Central Bank and a purely note-issuing body such as the Currency Commission. ... -
Should the list of authorised trustee investments in the Irish Free State be extended?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1932)I recommend that to the list of authorised investments should be added some Free State Securities, some Securities in Northern Ireland and some in Foreign Countries and British Dominions. But before doing so I review ...
