Porter Trust in Numbers

The Pursuit of Objectivity in Science and Public Life
Course Book
ISBN: 978-1-4008-2161-7
Verlag: De Gruyter
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E-Book, Englisch, 324 Seiten

PorterTheodore M.:
Theodore M. Porter, Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 (Princeton).

Autoren/Hrsg.

Porter, Theodore M.

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface

Acknowledgments

Introduction: Cultures of Objectivity 3

Pt. I Power in Numbers 9

Ch. 1 A World of Artifice 11

Ch. 2 How Social Numbers Are Made Valid 33

Ch. 3 Economic Measurement and the Values of Science 49

Ch. 4 The Political Philosophy of Quantification 73

Pt. II Technologies of Trust 87

Ch. 5 Experts against Objectivity: Accountants and Actuaries 89

Ch. 6 French State Engineers and the Ambiguities of Technocracy 114

Ch. 7 U.S. Army Engineers and the Rise of Cost-Benefit Analysis 148

Pt. III Political and Scientific Communities 191

Ch. 8 Objectivity and the Politics of Disciplines 193

Ch. 9 Is Science Made by Communities? 217

Notes 233

Bibliography 269

Index 303

Über Autor(innen)

Theodore M. Porter, Associate Professor of History at the University of California, Los Angeles, is the author of The Rise of Statistical Thinking, 1820-1900 (Princeton).