Journal of the Royal Statistical Society, Volume 80Royal Statistical Society., 1917 - Electronic journals 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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Page 107 - That it shall be unlawful for any person engaged in commerce, in the course of such commerce, either directly or indirectly, to discriminate in price between different purchasers of commodities of like grade and quality...
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Page 112 - EDITOR'S PREFACE IN the autumn of 1914 when the scientific study of the effects of war upon modern life passed suddenly from theory to history, the Division of Economics and History of the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace proposed to adjust the programme of its researches to the new and altered problems which the War presented. The existing programme, which had been prepared as the result of...
Page 39 - We need a central thinking department in statistics. There is already collected by the various Government departments, partly in their routine work, partly for the dissemination of information, an immense amount of valuable facts : but whenever a scientific inquirer endeavours to describe accurately some social or industrial development, or wishes to bring to the test of statistics the effect of some proposed reform, whether in taxation, regularity of employment, care of young children, or whatever...
Page 475 - Ford on the Effect of a Rise in Prices upon the amount of Small Money used, published in the Proceedings Vol.
Page 330 - The volume in hand represents an attempt to discuss systematically and comprehensively the justice of the processes by which the product of industry is distributed. Inasmuch as the product is actually apportioned among landowners, capitalists, business men and laborers, the moral aspects of the distribution are studied with reference to these four classes.
Page 594 - Trade and Navigation, Traffic, Woods and Forests, Wrecks. Great Britain — The publications of the Board of Agriculture and Fisheries, and of the Board of Agriculture for Scotland.
Page 107 - Unfair methods of competition in commerce, and unfair or deceptive act* or practices in commerce, are hereby declared unlawful. "The Commission is hereby empowered and directed to prevent persons, partnerships, or corporations, . . . from using unfair methods of competition in commerce and unfair or deceptive acts or practices in commerce.
Page 242 - Data for the Problem of Evolution in Man, II; a First Study of the Inheritance of Longevity and the Selective Death-Rate in Man,
Page 179 - Memorandum on the industrial situation after the war, privately circulated among employers, representatives of labour, and public men of all parties.