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At the end of the eighteenth century, Eden’s concern with poverty, and with policies and insurance against it, was expressed in pioneeringly extensive analyses and synthesis of carefully assembled data.
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Stone, M. (2001). Sir Frederick Morton Eden. In: Heyde, C.C., Seneta, E., Crépel, P., Fienberg, S.E., Gani, J. (eds) Statisticians of the Centuries. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4613-0179-0_23
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