Corrado Gini. Corrado gini motta di livenza 23 may 1884 rome 13 march 1965 was an italian statistician demographer and sociologist who developed the gini coefficient a measure of the income inequality in a society. He was a statistics professor at cagliari in 1909 and at padua in 1913.
Corrado gini he of the gini index was a numbers man at a time when statistics had become a modern science. Corrado gini was an italian statistician demographer and sociologist. 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.
The statistics journal he founded metron biography of corrado gini at the.
Corrado gini was born in motta di livenza in the province of treviso in the north east of italy. Paper on corrado gini and italian statistics under fascism by giovanni favero june 2002 a. The work of corrado gini 1884 1965 has had a profound impact on many fields within the social sciences. Corrado gini was born in motta di livenza in the province of treviso in the north east of italy.
