Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Volume 79

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Royal Statistical Society., 1916
Published papers whose appeal lies in their subject-matter rather than their technical statistical contents. Medical, social, educational, legal,demographic and governmental issues are of particular concern.
 

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Página 9 - The acquisition of such talents, by the maintenance of the acquirer during his education, study, or apprenticeship, always costs a real expense, which is a capital fixed and realized, as it were, in his person. Those talents, as they make a part of his fortune, so do they likewise of that of the society to which he belongs.
Página 522 - Department of the Wharton School of Finance and Commerce of the University of Pennsylvania.
Página 200 - The Table of Index Numbers is based on the average prices of the eleven years 1867-77, and the index numbers have been calculated in the ordinary arithmetical way ; for instance, English wheat : — td Average, 1867-77....
Página 9 - I do not class as wealth. He is the purpose for which wealth exists. But his acquired capacities, which exist only as means, and have been called into existence by labour, fall rightly, as it seems to me, \vithiii that designation.
Página 8 - THERE is -NO WEALTH BUT LIFE. Life, including all its powers of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings; that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence, both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives of others.
Página 398 - GENERAL AGENTS FOR PRIVATE BOOKBUYERS AND PUBLIC INSTITUTIONS In India, the Colonies, America, and abroad. A MONTHLY CATALOGUE OF SECOND-HAND BOOKS, Specimen No. post free.
Página 210 - Chairman of the Board of Directors of the Chase National Bank, formerly Comptroller of the Currency, ex-Superintendent of Banks of the State of New York, ex-President of the New York Chamber of Commerce, and ex-President of the New York Clearing House.
Página 515 - The following pages embody an endeavor to detect and state the ideas implied in a democratic society and to apply these ideas to the problems of the enterprise of education.
Página 527 - Agriculture expressed the conviction that " if agriculture had made no more progress in Germany than it has in the United Kingdom during the period 1895-1915, the German Empire would have been at the end of its food resources long before the second year of the war...

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