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Calculated Values: Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age, Derin HB+=
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- PublishedOn
- 2018-02-19
- ISBN
- 9780674971875
- EAN
- 9780674971875
- Publication Year
- 2018
- Type
- Textbook
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Publication Name
- Calculated Values : Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age
- Item Height
- 1.2in
- Item Length
- 9.2in
- Publisher
- Harvard University Press
- Item Width
- 6.1in
- Item Weight
- 28.9 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 440 Pages
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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 have not always been so revered. Calculated Values traces how numbers first gained widespread public authority in one nation, Great Britain. Into the seventeenth century, numerical reasoning bore no special weight in political life. Complex calculations were often regarded with suspicion, seen as the narrow province of navigators, bookkeepers, and astrologers, not gentlemen. This changed in the decades following the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Though Britons' new quantitative enthusiasm coincided with major advances in natural science, financial capitalism, and the power of the British state, it was no automatic consequence of those developments, William Deringer argues. Rather, it was a product of politics--ugly, antagonistic, partisan politics. From parliamentary debates to cheap pamphlets, disputes over taxes, trade, and national debt were increasingly conducted through calculations. Some of the era's most pivotal political moments, like the 1707 Union of England and Scotland and the 1720 South Sea Bubble, turned upon calculative conflicts. As Britons learned to fight by the numbers, they came to believe, as one calculator wrote in 1727, that "facts and figures are the most stubborn evidences." Yet the authority of numbers arose not from efforts to find objective truths that transcended politics, but from the turmoil of politics itself.
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Publisher
Harvard University Press
ISBN-10
0674971876
ISBN-13
9780674971875
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240590716
Product Key Features
Publication Name
Calculated Values : Finance, Politics, and the Quantitative Age
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Publication Year
2018
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
440 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.2in
Item Height
1.2in
Item Width
6.1in
Item Weight
28.9 Oz
Additional Product Features
Lc Classification Number
Da18.D425 2018
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Highly original in its research, highly intelligent in its analysis, and highly sophisticated in its argumentation, there is much to impress in this book. Calculated Values resonates with our own financial obsessions., Deringer's inspired and insightful book shows how mathematics and accounting mixed with politics to create modern finance. The story is so important, and yet, until now, has not been told. There is no way to understand the birth of economics without reading it., Tells the coming-of-age story of (early) modern public fascination with numbers...A great book that should be on the shelves of everyone who takes history of economic thought seriously., Engaging, learned, and beautifully written, Calculated Values is a major scholarly work. Deringer builds on his own experiences as a financial calculator to imbue material that otherwise might be a tad dry with a sense of wonder and adventure, not to mention an adroit sentiment of happy-go-lucky deceitfulness. It is a must-read for a wide variety of scholars and interested general readers--truly impressive and timely in the extreme., [Statistics] are center stage again now for reasons of both political conflict and epistemological uncertainty. Once again, some politicians wield numbers without any great concern about their accuracy or meaningfulness; the victory in debate is all that matters. Once again, given the profound changes in the structure of the economy, we can't be sure what categories and methods will give us the understanding we would like. This is a terrific book for reflecting on contested and uncertain statistical terrain., A thoroughly impressive work...[Deringer] recontextualizes the skepticism about numbers and suspicion of 'experts' in our time as something that has existed from the beginning rather than a recent disillusionment... A book this insightful about the past and with such a trenchant analysis of the present is a rare pleasure indeed., Shows how numerical calculation has both worked and failed in political life and what we can learn from it to help us use numbers more effectively in the future...A tour de force of intellectual and social history to explain how numerical thinking became the way to understand the world. Original in its approach and sophisticated in its argument.
Copyright Date
2018
Topic
Europe / Great Britain / Stuart Era (1603-1714), Economic History, Rhetoric, Applied, Europe / Great Britain / Georgian Era (1714-1837)
Lccn
2017-034530
Dewey Decimal
941.06
Dewey Edition
23
Illustrated
Yes
Genre
Business & Economics, Mathematics, Language Arts & Disciplines, History
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