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- Title Pages
- Preface to the New Edition
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
Introduction Cultures of Objectivity -
Part I Power in Numbers -
Chapter One A World of Artifice -
Chapter Two How Social Numbers Are Made Valid -
Chapter Three Economic Measurement and the Values of Science -
Chapter Four The Political Philosophy of Quantification -
Part II Technologies of Trust -
Chapter Five Experts against Objectivity: Accountants and Actuaries -
Chapter Six French State Engineers and the Ambiguities of Technocracy -
Chapter Seven U.S. Army Engineers and the Rise of Cost-Benefit Analysis -
Part III Political and Scientific Communities -
Chapter Eight Objectivity and the Politics of Disciplines -
Chapter Nine Is Science Made by Communities? - Notes
- Bibliography
- Index
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- Source:
- Trust in Numbers
- Author(s):
Theodore M. Porter
- Publisher:
- Princeton University Press
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- Title Pages
- Preface to the New Edition
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
-
Introduction Cultures of Objectivity -
Part I Power in Numbers -
Chapter One A World of Artifice -
Chapter Two How Social Numbers Are Made Valid -
Chapter Three Economic Measurement and the Values of Science -
Chapter Four The Political Philosophy of Quantification -
Part II Technologies of Trust -
Chapter Five Experts against Objectivity: Accountants and Actuaries -
Chapter Six French State Engineers and the Ambiguities of Technocracy -
Chapter Seven U.S. Army Engineers and the Rise of Cost-Benefit Analysis -
Part III Political and Scientific Communities -
Chapter Eight Objectivity and the Politics of Disciplines -
Chapter Nine Is Science Made by Communities? - Notes
- Bibliography
- Index