Article ID: CBB000931379

Produire des statistiques: pour quoi faire? L'échec de la statistique des faillites en France au XIXe siècle (2008)

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Hautcœur, Pierre-Cyrille (Author)


Histoire & Mesure
Volume: 23, no. 1
Issue: 1
Pages: 85-136


Publication Date: 2008
Edition Details: Part of a special issue: “Justice commerciale et histoire économique”
Language: French

Certain statistics are developed as part of a consistent intellectual, political and administrative project, as was the case with criminal statistics that appeared and developed with criminology during the 19th century, particularly in France and Belgium. We examine the official statistics of French civil and commercial justice, especially those of bankruptcy, which were created by the same administration that created criminal statistics in the same period (the 1830s). We show that these statistics, however well constructed, proved unable to attract users, except for an early use by the justice administration as a management device. Neither members of the Parliament nor social scientists used them, probably because they had not been developed in order to answer adequate questions that would have been embedded in a clear and developing scientific framework. This led to a decline of these statistics. They nevertheless provide interesting insights into the French 19th-century society and economy.

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Description On the extention of statistics developed in criminology in France and Belgium to other administrative operations.


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Authors & Contributors
Borgato, Maria Teresa
Sposini, Filippo Maria
Marguerat, Philippe
Zaubermann, Renée
Touchelay, Béatrice
Stamhuis, Ida H.
Concepts
Statistics
Science and government
Mathematics
Science and economics
Applied statistics
Science and law
Time Periods
19th century
20th century
18th century
20th century, early
Places
France
Germany
Netherlands
Belgium
Great Britain
England
Institutions
Société de Statistique de Paris
France. Statistique générale
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