Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age

Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age
ISBN-10
0674971876
ISBN-13
9780674971875
Category
Business & Economics
Pages
440
Language
English
Published
2018-02-19
Publisher
Harvard University Press
Author
William Deringer

Description

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.

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