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Format: iv, 348 Seiten , Illustrationen , 26 cm

ISBN: 9780226538778

Series Statement: Osiris [Series 2], 33

Note: Includes bibliographical references and index , "This volume grew out of a two-day workshop on the entangled histories of science and capitalism that took place at Columbia University's Heyman Center for the Humanities in the summer of 2016." (Seite iv)

Additional Edition: Erscheint auch als Online-Ausgabe Science and capitalism [Chicago, Illinois] : [University Of Chicago Press], 2018 ISBN 9780226466132

Additional Edition: ISBN 0226466132

Language: English

Subjects: Natural Sciences

Keywords: Wissenschaft ; Kapitalismus ; Datenspeicherung ; Konferenzschrift

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Format: xxii, 413 Seiten , Illustrationen

ISBN: 9780674971875

Content: 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.

Content: Preface: Quantification and its discontents -- Introduction: Political calculations -- Finding the money: public accounting and political arithmetic after 1688 -- The great project of the equivalent: a story of the number 398,0851/2 -- The balance of trade battle and the party politics of calculation in 1713-1714 -- The preheminent bookkeepers in Christendom: calculating personalities and impersonal calculations -- Intrinsick values: figuring out the South Sea Bubble -- Futures projected: Robert Walpole's political calculations -- Figures, which they thought could not lie: the problem with calculation in the eighteenth century

Note: Hier auch später erschienene, unveränderte Nachdrucke , Includes bibliographical references and index

Language: English

Subjects: History , Economics , Political Science

Keywords: Großbritannien ; Politik ; Verwaltung ; Finanzwirtschaft ; Berechnung ; Quantitative Methode ; Geschichte 1700-1800

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: 1 online resource (414 pages) : , illustrations, graphs

ISBN: 0-674-98597-4 , 0-674-98599-0

Content: 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.--

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface: Quantification and Its Discontents -- , Notes on Style -- , Introduction: Political Calculations -- , Finding the Money: Public Accounting and Political Arithmetic after 1688 -- , The Great Project of the Equivalent: a Story of the Number 398,085½ -- , The Balance-of-Trade Battle and the Party Politics of Calculation in 1713–1714 -- , The Preeminent Bookkeepers in Christendom: Personalities of Calculation -- , Intrinsic Values: Figuring Out the South Sea Bubble -- , Futures Projected: Robert Walpole’s Political Calculations -- , Figures, Which They Thought Could Not Lie: The Problem with Calculation in the Eighteenth Century -- , Conclusion -- , Archival Collections Cited -- , Notes on Printed Sources -- , Abbreviations -- , Notes -- , Acknowledgments -- , Index , In English.

Additional Edition: ISBN 0-674-97187-6

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674985995

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Format: 1 online resource (440 p.) : , 18 halftones, 1 line illustration, 1 graph, 10 tables

ISBN: 9780674985995

Content: 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.

Note: Frontmatter -- , Contents -- , Preface: Quantification and Its Discontents -- , Notes on Style -- , Introduction: Political Calculations -- , Finding the Money: Public Accounting and Political Arithmetic after 1688 -- , The Great Project of the Equivalent: a Story of the Number 398,085½ -- , The Balance-of-Trade Battle and the Party Politics of Calculation in 1713-1714 -- , The Preeminent Bookkeepers in Christendom: Personalities of Calculation -- , Intrinsic Values: Figuring Out the South Sea Bubble -- , Futures Projected: Robert Walpole's Political Calculations -- , Figures, Which They Thought Could Not Lie: The Problem with Calculation in the Eighteenth Century -- , Conclusion -- , Archival Collections Cited -- , Notes on Printed Sources -- , Abbreviations -- , Notes -- , Acknowledgments -- , Index , In English.

Language: English

DOI: 10.4159/9780674985995

URL: https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674985995

URL: https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674985995

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Format: iv, 348 Seiten , Illustrationen , 26 cm

ISBN: 9780226538778

Series Statement: Osiris [Second series], 33

Content: This volume revisits the mutually constitutive relationship between science and capitalism from the seventeenth century to the present day. Adopting a global approach, we reject the notion that either science or capitalism can be understood as stages of modernity that emerged in the West and subsequently engendered a "Great Divergence" with the rest of the world. Instead, both science and capitalism were historical institutions that arose in an imperial context of global exchange and whose entanglement has been continuously remade. Rather than seek to explain either the development of modern science as a product of economic forces or the divergence of capitalist economies as a result of technical innovation, we want to emphasize the knowledge work that has been a central feature of both modern science and capitalism across the globe

Note: "This volume grew out of a two-day workshop on the entangled histories of science and capitalism that took place at Columbia University's Heyman Center for the Humanities in the summer of 2016."--Page iv

Language: English

Subjects: Computer Science

Keywords: Kapitalismus ; Naturwissenschaften ; Geschichte ; Konferenzschrift

URL: Inhaltsverzeichnis

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Format: iv, 348 Seiten : , Illustrationen ; , 26 cm.

ISBN: 978-0-226-53877-8

Series Statement: Osiris [Second series], 33

Content: This volume revisits the mutually constitutive relationship between science and capitalism from the seventeenth century to the present day. Adopting a global approach, we reject the notion that either science or capitalism can be understood as stages of modernity that emerged in the West and subsequently engendered a "Great Divergence" with the rest of the world. Instead, both science and capitalism were historical institutions that arose in an imperial context of global exchange and whose entanglement has been continuously remade. Rather than seek to explain either the development of modern science as a product of economic forces or the divergence of capitalist economies as a result of technical innovation, we want to emphasize the knowledge work that has been a central feature of both modern science and capitalism across the globe

Note: "This volume grew out of a two-day workshop on the entangled histories of science and capitalism that took place at Columbia University's Heyman Center for the Humanities in the summer of 2016."--Page iv

Language: English

Subjects: Computer Science

Keywords: Kapitalismus ; Naturwissenschaften ; Konferenzschrift

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ISSN: 0021-1753

In: Isis 〈Chicago, Ill.〉, Chicago, Ill. : Univ. of Chicago Press, 1913, 104(2013), 4, Seite 841-842, 0021-1753

In: volume:104

In: year:2013

In: number:4

In: pages:841-842

Language: English

Keywords: Rezension

Author information: Campe, Rüdiger 1953-