Corrado Gini

Corrado Gini (born May 23, 1884 in Motta di Livenza near Treviso , † March 13, 1965 in Rome ) was an Italian statistician , sociologist and demographer . Among other things, he developed the Gini coefficient , named after him , with which he represented the unequal distribution of income in an economy.

Gini was also a leading fascist theorist and ideologist who wrote The Theory of Fascism in 1927 as head of the Central Institute of Statistics in Rome . In 1932 he resigned from office in protest against the interference of the fascist state in his work.

In 1949, in competition with the International Sociological Association (ISA) founded in the same year, he reactivated the old learned society International Institute for Sociology (IIS), which was the only and generally recognized international sociological organization until the Second World War , because of the collaboration of its last head, René Maunier , but had been shut down with National Socialism. Gini became the first post-war president of the IIS.

literature

• Franco Ferrarotti: Gini, Corrado. In: Wilhelm Bernsdorf , Horst Knospe (Ed.): Internationales Soziologenlexikon. Volume 1: Articles on sociologists who died by the end of 1969. 2nd revised edition. Enke, Stuttgart 1980, ISBN 3-432-82652-4 , p. 148 ff.

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Johannes Weyer , The "Civil War in Sociology". The West German Sociology between Americanization and Restoration , in: Sven Papcke (ed.), Order and Theory. Contributions to the history of sociology in Germany , Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft, Darmstadt 1986, ISBN 3-534-09098-5 , pp. 280–304, here p. 288.