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Trust in Numbers
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Author(s):
Theodore M. Porter
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December 31 1996
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Princeton University Press
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Book chapters
pp. i
Frontmatter
pp. v
Contents
pp. vii
Preface
pp. xiii
Acknowledgments
pp. 1
Introduction. Cultures of Objectivity
pp. 11
Chapter One. A World of Artifice
pp. 33
Chapter Two. How Social Numbers Are Made Valid
pp. 49
Chapter Three. Economic Measurement and the Values of Science
pp. 73
Chapter Four. The Political Philosophy of Quantification
pp. 89
Chapter Five. Experts against Objectivity: Accountants and Actuaries
pp. 114
Chapter Six. French State Engineers and the Ambiguities of Technocracy
pp. 148
Chapter Seven. U.S. Army Engineers and the Rise of Cost-Benefit Analysis
pp. 193
Chapter Eight. Objectivity and the Politics of Disciplines
pp. 217
Chapter Nine. Is Science Made by Communities?
pp. 233
Notes
pp. 269
Bibliography
pp. 303
Index
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