Corrado Gini. 13 1965 rome italian statistician and demographer. Corrado gini he of the gini index was a numbers man at a time when statistics had become a modern science.
In 1925 four years after gini wrote measurement of inequality of incomes he signed the manifesto of fascist intellectuals he was the only statistician to do so and was soon running the presidential commission. Corrado gini was born in motta di livenza in the province of treviso in the north east of italy. Gini was educated at bologna where he studied law mathematics economics and biology.
Demography remained one of gini s chief interests and he later advanced a cyclical theory of population.
The work of corrado gini 1884 1965 has had a profound impact on many fields within the social sciences. In 1905 he graduated in law from the university of bologna. Gini was educated at bologna where he studied law mathematics economics and biology. Giorgi early gini s contributions to inequality measurement and statistical inference jehps mars 2005.
