A History of the Modern Fact : Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society /

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How did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and the social sciences? Mary Poovey explores these questions in A History of the Modern Fact, ranging across an astonishing array of texts a...

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Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Autor principal: Poovey, Mary (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Chicago : University of Chicago Press, [2009]
Temas:
Social sciences > Statistical methods > History.
Social sciences > Statistics > History.
Social sciences > Great Britain > Statistical methods > History.
Social sciences > Great Britain > Statistics > History.
Social sciences.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / General.
facts, theory, social sciences, intellectual history, economics, texts, statistics, politics, political, philosophy, credibility, systemic knowledge, wealth, society, cultural criticism, epistemological conditions, literary, modernity, description, ideas, great britain, publication, government, public policy, numerical representation, bookkeeping, belief systems, memory, credulity, statistical methods, liberal governmentality, figures of speech.
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • INTRODUCTION
  • 1. THE MODERN FACT, THE PROBLEM OF INDUCTION, AND QUESTIONS OF METHOD
  • 2. ACCOMMODATING MERCHANTS: DOUBLE-ENTRY BOOKKEEPING, MERCANTILE EXPERTISE, AND THE EFFECT OF ACCURACY
  • 3. THE POLITICAL ANATOMY OF THE ECONOMY: ENGLISH SCIENCE AND IRISH LAND
  • 4. EXPERIMENTAL MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE PROBLEMS OF LIBERAL GOVERNMENTALITY
  • 5. FROM CONJECTURAL HISTORY TO POLITICAL ECONOMY
  • 6. RECONFIGURING FACTS AND THEORY: VESTIGES OF PROVIDENTIALISM IN THE NEW SCIENCE OF WEALTH
  • 7. FIGURES OF ARITHMETIC, FIGURES OF SPEECH: THE PROBLEM OF INDUCTION IN THE 1830s
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX

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