Making it count : statistics and statecraft in the early People's Republic of China /
"Among the biggest challenges facing leaders of the newly established People's Republic of China (PRC) was how much they did not know. In 1949, at the end of a long sequence of wars, the government of one of the largest states in the world committed to fundamentally re-engineering its soci...
Cote: | Libro Electrónico |
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Format: | Électronique eBook |
Langue: | Inglés |
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Princeton :
Princeton University Press,
[2020]
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Collection: | Histories of economic life.
Studies of the Weatherhead East Asian Institute, Columbia University. |
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Accès en ligne: | Texto completo |
Table des matières:
- A new type of standardized statistical work
- Ascertaining social fact
- No "mean" solution : reformulating statistics, disciplining scientists
- The nature of statistical work
- To "ardently love statistical work" : state (in-) capacity, professionalization, and their discontents
- Seeking common ground amidst differences : the turn to India
- A "great leap" in statistics.