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Calculated values : finance, politics, and the quantitative age /
Modern political culture features a deep-seated faith in the power of numbers to find answers, settle disputes, and explain how the world works. Whether evaluating economic trends, measuring the success of institutions, or divining public opinion, we are told that numbers don't lie. But numbers...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
Harvard University Press,
2018.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Preface: Quantification and its discontents
- Introduction: Political calculations
- Finding the money: public accounting and political arithmetic after 1688
- The great project of the equivalent: a story of the number 398,0851/2
- The balance of trade battle and the party politics of calculation in 1713-1714
- The preheminent bookkeepers in Christendom: calculating personalities and impersonal calculations
- Intrinsick values: figuring out the South Sea Bubble
- Futures projected: Robert Walpole's political calculations
- Figures, which they thought could not lie: the problem with calculation in the eighteenth century.