Corrado Gini (23 May1884 –13 March1965) was an Italianstatistician,demographer andsociologist who developed theGini coefficient, a measure of theincome inequality in asociety. Demography remained one of Gini’s chief interests, and he later advanced a cyclical theory of population. He developed the theory of dispersion in Variabilità e Mutabilità (1912) and the concentration ratio. This led to his most famous contribution, the Gini coefficient, which is used in a mathematical formula to determine the measure of dispersion in a concentration.
A fairly large part, if not, indeed, the very nucleus, of theFascist movement has been built up of ex-Socialists who abandoned their party because of, or in consequence of, thewar. This observation is particularly true of the younger element in the Socialistic party, including young men of a practical turn, often restless in temperament, who had rallied to the Socialist party not so much because of its positive economic program, as because of its negative program of protest against the aimlessindividualism of theLiberal regime, and who found in Fascism the means for effectuating their desire to take a part and to reconstruct.
"The Scientific Basis of Fascism", inPolitical Science Quarterly, Vol. 42 (Academy of Political Science, 1927), p. 104.
The most notable difference (of the American character) lies in thepsychology of work. In the Orient one works tolive; inEurope one works to consume; inAmerica one works towork. These are the three stages of a progressiveevolution.
As quoted inThe Work of the Catholic Church in the United States of America (Nardini "Artistic" Publishing Company, 1956), p. 10.
