Trust in Numbers
Subtitle: the pursuit of objectivity in science and public life
By: Theodore M. Porter.
Publisher: Princeton University Press
Published: 1995
Place of publication: Princeton, NJ
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 310
ISBN-13: 9780691037769
Table of contents: title: Introduction : Cultures of Objectivity; title: part I. Power in numbers.; title: A world of artifice; title: How social numbers are made valid; title: Economic measurement and the values of science; title: The political philosophy of quantification; title: part II. Technologies of Trust.; title: Experts against objectivity : accountants and actuaries; title: French state engineers and the ambiguities of technocracy; title: U.S. Army engineers and the rise of cost-benefit analysis; title: part III. Political and scientific communities.; title: Objectivity and the politics of disciplines; title: Is science made by communities?