Browsing by Author "Duncan, G. A."

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    • Decline of the country town 

      Duncan, G. A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1932)
      This paper does not pretend to be anything more than a statistical pursuit of certain queries suggested by Table B in the Preliminary Report of the Census of 1926.

    • The determination of demand curves in relation to wheat 

      Duncan, G. A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1934)
      The ultimate problem of economic analysis is the correlation of variations in associated series of events; the determination whether and to what degree a change in one series is associated with a change in another or ...

    • Marshall Aid 

      Duncan, G. A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1950)
      The peg on which these reflections are hung is the Economic Cooperation Act of the Congress of the United States of America. That Act was a gesture of magnificent generosity on the part of the American people, equalled ...

    • The population problem : a radio discussion 

      Brennan, Joseph; Geary, R. C.; Duncan, G. A.; O'Brien, George; Lyon, Stanley (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1938)
      The present discussion on the Irish population problem has been arranged on the invitation of the Director of Broadcasting by the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland. This Society which in a few years will ...

    • Rural industries: an example from North Carolina 

      Duncan, G. A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1927)
      Economic philosophers, whose genius is admonitory rather than analytical, have found a peculiar satisfaction in the contemplation of "rural industries." They have generally approached the subject from the sentimental ...

    • The social income of Eire, 1938-40 

      Duncan, G. A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1941)
      A paper read before the Society on Thursday, 26th October, 1939 carried the investigation up to 1937, with provisional estimates for 1938 and conjectures for 1939. Of the seven heads into which monetary income was there ...

    • The social income of the Irish Free State, 1926-38 

      Duncan, G. A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1940)
      In the Economic Journal of March, 1933, Dr. T. J. Kiernan published an estimate of the national income of the Irish Free State for the year 1926, and followed it up with a paper, read before this Society in June, 1933, ...

    • Symposium on national income and social accounts 

      McCarthy, M. D.; Duncan, G. A.; Whitaker, T. K.; Lynch, Patrick (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1952)
      The series of tables and notes which form the kernel of this contribution to the Society's symposium on National Income are designed as an appendix to the recent White Paper,1 which contained the official estimates of ...

    • Symposium on the Report of the Commission on Emigration and other population problems 

      Carter, C. F.; Duncan, G. A.; Nevin, Donal; O Buachalla, Liam (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1956)
      My comments are limited to two points, one demographic and one economic. In matters demographic Ireland is obviously out of step with the rest of the world, and it is difficult to avoid the sense of guilt which comes ...

    • The trade statistics of the Irish Free State : recent trends 

      Duncan, G. A. (Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1938)
      The most characteristic years for the comparison of the movements of external trade are 1926, the year after the reestablishment of the gold standard by the United Kingdom; 1929, the apex of the second post-war boom; ...