JSSISI: 1957 to 1962, Vol. XX, Sessions 111th to 115th: Recent submissions
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Investment criteria in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1962)In planning economic development, projects must be arranged in an order of priority. During the past ten years or so, increasing attention has been paid to the criteria by whose help this ordering might be done. In this ... -
Some social and economic aspects of housing?an international comparison
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1960)There are two points to be borne in mind in connection with the comparisons made in this paper. The first is that all comparisons based on international statistics are affected by the reliability and comparability of the ... -
The extent of the potato crop in Ireland at the time of the Famine
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1960)Any attempt at a quantitative analysis of the failure of the potato in Ireland in 1845-6 requires a knowledge of the extent to which the crop was grown in those years. The collection and publication of official returns of ... -
Symposium on economic development
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1959)I must, at the outset, congratulate Mr. Whitaker on succeeding, where others have failed, in arousing the authorities, both Governmental and Departmental, to the urgent necessity for a systematic programme of economic ... -
Estimates of the gross domestic product of Northern Ireland, 1950-56
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1959)Estimates of the Gross Domestic Product of Northern Ireland have been supplied by Professor C. F. Carter, and are shown in the following table. A paper on ?A Comparison of the National Incomes and Social Accounts of Northern ... -
Personality and the organization man
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1961)I should begin by declaring my interest. It is that, as Blake has it, without Man, Nature is barren. Or, in twentieth century terms, the creative and dynamic forces that lead to progress derive from the human personality. ... -
The economic utilisation of grassland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1960)Recent experimental work has brought to notice the remarkable yield potential of Irish grassland. In experiments at Johnstown Castle on poor soils, yields of about 40 cwts. of starch equivalent (S.E.) per acre were obtained ... -
Providing for old age through private channels
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1960)At a time when a Bill has been introduced into the Dail containing proposals for the inauguration of a contributory pensions scheme, it seems opportune to review the position generally in regard to the problem of old age ... -
The universities and management training
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1959)The post-war years have seen a significant increase in the attention given to the problems of business management and to the devising of courses covering a wide variety of subjects but all subsumed under the general heading ... -
Changes and trends in our educational system since 1922
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1959)This is, I think, the first talk on our educational system that has been given here and so, before the statistics of the subject can be usefully considered, a sketch of the structure and history of the system would seem ... -
Ireland and international monetary institutions
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1958)Ireland's recent accession to the International Monetary Fund and the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, commonly known as the ?World Bank? has stimulated interest in this country in the various ... -
Some recent developments in secondary education in Great Britain with special reference to technical education
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1958)No apology is needed for addressing this society on an educational topic. In the 1830's Dr. Kay, later Sir James Kay-Shuttleworth, wrote a pamphlet, ?The Moral and Physical Conditions of the Working Classes employed in the ... -
The political economy of development
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1958)This Society was founded in 1847, twelve years after the British Association for the Advancement of Science had first met in Dublin. Its foundation reflected the contemporary interest in Political Economy; while its early ... -
Some observations on social security and the aged
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1958)In this necessarily brief survey of the social problems of old age I propose to consider? The nature and extent of the problem due to the changing age structure of the nation; The statutory and non-statutory financial ... -
Natality in Dublin in the year 1955
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1958)Certain modifications were made in 1955 in the system of recording births in this country, with a view to extending the amount of statistical information available and bringing the Irish statistics on the subject into ... -
Local government finance and central control
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1958)The local government systems of England and Northern Ireland are alike in essentials, and their structure and financial basis both date from the last decades of the nineteenth century. In those days, as now, local authorities ... -
Trade union organisation in Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1959)In this paper I propose to review briefly various aspects of the Irish trade union movement; its development and membership, the Congresses and the new Irish Congress of Trade Unions, theories of trade union structure, ... -
Some aspects of the marketing of milk in Northern Ireland
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1959)Though the milk bottle and the milkman are familiar sights it is doubtful if the general public ever give much thought to the complex organisation which ensures the daily delivery of milk to some 338,000 households in ... -
Some provincial variations in Irish agriculture
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1959)The statistics relating to Irish agriculture as a whole convey an impression of general stability during the quarter century preceding 1950, but there the stability seems to end. Since then output has increased significantly ... -
State debt balance sheets
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1959)Since the establishment of the State the annual Finance Accounts have contained statements of the liabilities and assets of the Exchequer. These statements have shown a growing but unexplained excess of liabilities over ...
