Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and tje Quantitative Age

Modern political culture features a deep-seated faith in the power of numbers. But quantitative evidence has not always been revered, as William Deringer shows. After the 1688 Revolution, as Britons learned to fight by the numbers, their enthusiasm for figures arose not from efforts to find objective truths but from the turmoil of politics itself.

Über den Autor / die Autorin

William Deringer is Leo Marx Career Development Assistant Professor of Science, Technology, and Society at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.

Zusammenfassung

Modern political culture features a deep-seated faith in the power of numbers. But quantitative evidence has not always been revered, as William Deringer shows. After the 1688 Revolution, as Britons learned to fight by the numbers, their enthusiasm for figures arose not from efforts to find objective truths but from the turmoil of politics itself.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: William Deringer
• Verlag: Harvard University Press
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Fester Einband
• Erschienen: 28.02.2018
• EAN: 9780674971875
• ISBN: 978-0-674-97187-5
• Seiten: 410
• Abmessung: 165 mm x 242 mm x 32 mm
• Themen: Naturwissenschaften, Medizin, Informatik, Technik > Naturwissenschaften allgemein; European History, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Economic History, Economic history, History of Science, British & Irish history, Numbers, Political Economy