Browsing JSSISI: 1952 to 1957, Vol. XIX, Sessions 106th to 110th by Subject "314.15"
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Accounting and economic decision
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1953)Accounts, whether prepared for shareholders or management, provide a systematic basis for determining the employment of a very large part of national resources of manpower, material and technique. I conceive that an attempt ... -
Agricultural education and research
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1953)In recent years agricultural education has been the subject of discussion and inquiry in many countries and much reorganisation of research, teaching and advisory services has been undertaken, in an effort to enhance the ... -
An amended Irish monetary system
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1957)To understand the Irish monetary system it is necessary to know something of its development and of the general economic position of the Irish economy. It is a truism, but a very important one, that the Irish economy is ... -
An Analysis of Irish Transport Acts, 1944 and 1950, and of the financial and operating statistics of Coras Iompair Eireann and the Great Northern Railway Co., 1945-51
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)In January, 1946, I read a paper before this Society, on the financial and operating statistics of the G.S. Rys. Co. and G.N.R. Co., 1938-44, which was preceded in May, 1938, by a similar survey of the G.S. Rys. Co. 1925-37, ... -
Aspects of public expenditure in Northern Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)Northern Ireland's financial relations with the rest of the United Kingdom always arouse lively interest inside the region. Recently, however, a more urgent interest in these relations has been developing here and at the ... -
Capital formation, saving and economic progress
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)In this paper I assemble some facts and considerations regarding the relation of capital formation and saving to the raising of real incomes in Ireland. In other words, my concern is with national development and with some ... -
Classification of multiple causes of death
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1955)Statistics of causes of death are probably the most important single item in any vital statistics system for the planning and administration of health services necessarily depend on them and on statistics of morbidity. ... -
The come-back of Europe
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1955)As Mr. President has already mentioned, we are going to consider to-night the question of the come-back of Europe. Ladies and gentlemen, the very words selected as the title for this talk are an affirmation that Europe has ... -
A comparison of the national incomes and social accounts of Northern Ireland, the Republic of Ireland and the United Kingdom
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1955)In March, 1933, Dr. T. J. Kiernan published in the Economic Journal a paper on ?The National Income of the Irish Free State in 1926,? following it in June by a paper to this Society on National Expenditure. Since that time ... -
Drifting to absolutism ?
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1953)Thirty years ago, more or less, we attained our independence as a nation and proceeded to set up our own government with high hopes for our island territory both within and beyond the dividing frontier which cuts across ... -
Dublin city passenger transport services
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1955)I am not aware that any paper has before been submitted to this Society on the subject of Dublin's City Transport Services, and I have, therefore, accepted the invitation to remedy that position with no little diffidence ... -
The economic future of Northern Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1953)In case this rather ambitious title should raise any false hopes, I must explain at once that I am not an economist or in any way qualified to deal with the subject in a professional manner. It is true that I took a Degree ... -
Economic leviathans
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1953)Students of world economic affairs in the inter-war period were impressed by the extent to which the world scene was dominated by the economic policies (or impolicies) of two great economic leviathans : the U.S.A., and ... -
The family in Irish Census of Population statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1955)It is necessary at the outset to emphasise the experimental character of the paper, the principal object of which is to present the results of a special analysis of a sample of 6,280 families from the Census of Population ... -
A half century of fertiliser and lime use in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1957)The importance of a satisfactory supply of nutrient elements and lime, in soils, is now universally recognised as one of the major factors in crop production. When a crop, either tillage or pasture, is harvested from a ... -
Hill land utilisation in Ulster
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)This paper examines the use of hill land in Ulster at the present time, with particular emphasis on the improvements being undertaken to reduce the gap between present and potential productivity and with consideration of ... -
The International Labour Organisation - its origins and story
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1953)This is a factual statement. It does not deal with such fascinating speculations as the extent to which the I.L.O. has contributed to the Welfare State, the effect of the creation of common denominators in hours of work ... -
Ireland's future in the world demand on energy resources
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1954)The experience of two world wars has led the more advanced nations to examine the growing demand on their energy resources. In the English speaking countries, with which the economy of this country is particularly involved, ... -
Irish hospital finance
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)It will be readily understood that the energies of the local and central Government bodies in the 1920's were very considerably absorbed by general tasks of national reconstruction, with the result that little could be ... -
Marriage in Ireland after the famine: the diffusion of the match
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)Of all the casualties of Irish social life in the decades after the Famine, one of the most significant was marriage of the kind which had become all but universal in peasant families. Many of the characteristics of social ...
