Calculated Values

Calculated Values PDF Author: William Deringer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 0674971876
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 439

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Book 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.