Italian society of economics demography and statistics
| SIEDS - Società italiana di economia demografia e statistica" | |
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| Abbreviation | SIEDS |
| Type | Scientific Institution |
| Purpose/focus | progress of the economic, demographic and statistical studies |
| Headquarters | Rome (Italy) |
| President | Giovanni Maria Giorgi |
Italian society of economics demography and statistics (SIEDS - Società italiana di economia demografia e statistica) is a cultural and scientific institution aiming to the progress of the economic, demographic and statistical studies and to the establishment of active forms of co-operation among professionals of the mentioned subjects and similar issues in the field of social sciences and human behaviour. The society pursues this aim by:
- organising seminars, congresses or scientific meetings for analysing and discussing problems concerning its activity;
- implementing scientific surveys, enquires and researches and promoting, training activities (courses, seminars, etc.);
- publishing the Italian Review of Economics, Demography and Statistics (Rivista italiana di economia demografia e statistica), SIEDS News, a series of studies and monographies on specific items concerning the scientific interest of the society as well as the proceedings of its congresses and seminars;
- undertaking every activity for supporting such studies or for scientifically collaborating with the policy makers in the economic, demographic and statistical field;
- participating with its official representatives to congresses, meetings, commissions of other similar national and international societies or public or private bodies;
- sustaining the aspirations of similar national and international societies and scientifically co-operating with them.
[edit] History of the Society
SIEDS is a scientific society funded 29 of June 1939 thanks to the initiative of Livio Livi and other eminent academics. The first seat of the society was located in Florence in viale Curtatone n.1. Initially named Italian Society of Demography and Statistics (SIDS), it takes its origins from the Advisory Committee for the Population Study funded by Corrado Gini.[1] The first publications of the Society were only the scientific meeting proceedings but, starting from January 1947, the Society published its own scientific journal, namely Italian Review of Demography and Statistics (RIDS). On 18 April 1950 the society decided to expand its fields of interest also to the economics and then took the current denomination of “SIEDS – Italian Society of Economics Demography and statistics” mainly thanks to the requests of Prof. Luigi Amoroso,[2] an economist/mathematician who together with Vilfredo Pareto[3] was one of the first to explain the income distribution based on statistical data. In 1950 the scientific journal of the society took its current name Italian review of economics demography and statistics (RIEDS). The Society allowed for the first time a close link among academics that in most cases used to meet only abroad during the seminars organized by the International Statistical Institute and the International Union for the Study of the Population. During the first meeting of SIDS, held at Istat (Rome, 28–29 May 1939), Livio Livi underlined that at that time there were already 16 statistical Society in Europe as well as in North America, Argentina Brazil, India, China and Japan. Therefore Italian academics thought that the time was arrived also for their own wide national society. Many eminent academics become members of the Society. During the scientific meeting held on December 28, 1940 the society already counted 122 ordinary members among them: Carlo Emilio Bonferroni, Raffaele D’Addario, Mario de Vergottini and Giuseppe Parenti (Rector of the University of Florence), Giuseppe De Meo (Istat President), Pierpaolo Luzzatto Fegiz, Diego De Castro, Guglielmo Tagliacarne, Bruno Grazia Resi, Ugo Papi (Rector of the University of Rome) and Silvio Vianelli. All these academics gave a great contribution, also at international level, to the Economics and Statistics theory.
[edit] References
- ^ Michele Marotta and A. James Gregor, "Sociology in Italy" The Sociological Quarterly, Vol. 2, No. 3 (Jul., 1961), pp. 215-221
- ^ Jan Horst Keppler, Luigi Amoroso (1886–1965): Mathematical Economist, Italian Corporatist, History of Political Economy; 1994; 26: 589-611;
- ^ Amoroso L. (1947), L’indice di concentrazione dei redditi secondo Pareto, Rivista italiana di demografia e statistica, ottobre, 134-39.
