Browsing JSSISI: 1930 to 1937, Vol. XV, Sessions 84th to 90th by Date of Publication
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Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland : eighty-seventh session 1933/1934
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The minimum wage
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1934)There are many types of minima, which are the outcome of personal negotiations or collective bargaining between employers and employees, and in which training, general skill, special aptitude, intellectual ability, ... -
Monetary policy and the Depression
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1934)The economic mechanism is obviously out of gear, and it is an easy solution of the trouble to blame the lubricant. Before, however, arriving at a hasty conclusion, one should pause to consider whether it is not unreasonable ... -
The session of the International Institute of Statistics at Mexico, 1933
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1934)It is not proposed to give here an account of each paper, but the following summaries of some of the more important papers will give a general idea of their subject matter. The volumes of the Bulletin which will be ... -
The determination of demand curves in relation to wheat
(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 ... -
Some aspects of the Italian corporative organisation
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1935)In other countries in which the tradition of personal liberty still survives, the study of the Italian corporative organisation has become of the greatest interest, and it has been asked how far society can be organised ... -
The public debt of the Irish Free State
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1935)It is intended in this paper to review certain salient facts in regard to the public debt of the Irish Free State. It will be understood that it would not be possible within the limits of time and space available to ... -
Some comments upon the report of the Commission on the Registration of Shops
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1935)Problems connected with the distribution of goods to the consumer are receiving much attention nowadays, and before dealing with the various recommendations of the Report it is necessary to have a background from which ... -
The boot and shoe industry of Saorstat Eireann
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1935)The Irish market in footwear was always of great importance to the British importers. When the tariff was first imposed in 1924 "the Irish Free State took one-third of the total British exports of footwear." (Economic ... -
Aspects of the agricultural crisis at home and abroad
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1935)A Barrington Lecture on the above subject has recently been given in Cork, Enniscorthy, Limerick and Sligo, and this paper represents the further elaboration of the material collected for that lecture. The paper itself ... -
Income tax statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1935)In reading this paper I realise that I have to try to make it interesting not only to those who are already well informed on the Income Tax code, but also to those who are possibly not; I have, moreover, to consider not ... -
Bargaining power as an economic force
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1936)It is generally agreed that the results which are arrived at in economic theory are qualitative rather than quantitative, and the economist must often envy the exponents of the more exact sciences for the greater precision ... -
The developing power of broadcasting
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1936)Before the invention of printing, in the 15th century, the instruments by which minds were influenced and social changes made were teaching and talking. Print may not have lessened talk but, after its first halting ... -
The forthcoming census of population
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1936)A Census of the Population of Saorstat Eireann is to be taken on 26th April, 1936. As an item of propaganda in connection with the preparatory work for Censuses of Population it has been customary to read before this ... -
Some reflections on commercial banking with special reference to the balance sheets of banks operating in An Saorstat
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1936)An examination into the figures of the combined balance sheets furnished quarterly by the Currency Commission discloses the financial strength of the banks operating in An Saorstat, and the liquidity of their assets ... -
The future population of Saorstat Eireann and some observations on population statistics
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1936)While the principal object of this paper is to place on record the results of a couple of experiments in forecasting population, certain extended digressions have been made into the past (sometimes the distant past) not ... -
Proceedings of the Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland : eighty-ninth session 1935/1936
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Cinema statistics in Saorstat Eireann
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1936)For some time the idea of undertaking a preliminary survey of the Cinemas in the Saorstat had kept recurring to me, but it was not until last December that I was finally stimulated to action by Mr Rowson's most valuable ... -
Irish Free State railway accounts
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1936)I propose in this short paper, which has been rather hurriedly prepared, to confine myself to the Financial Accounts of the Great Southern Railways and the Great Northern Railway for the years 1929, 1934 and 1935. -
First impressions from the Census of Distribution, 1933
(Statistical and Social Inquiry Society of Ireland, 1937)The Society welcomes the pioneer work which has been done by the Government Statistical Department in ascertaining facts regarding the volume of distribution, retail and wholesale, within the Saorstat. Retailers and ...
