No safety in numbers: how the computer quantified everything and made people risk-aversive
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Cresskill, NJ
Hampton Press
1996
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| Schriftenreihe: | The Hampton Press communication series : Media ecology
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| Beschreibung: | VIII, 192 S. |
| ISBN: | 1572730625 1572730633 |
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Introduction 1
PART ONE: A RISK FREE INTELLECTUAL WORLD
1. Mathematics and Human Knowledge 9
The Mathematization of Knowledge: A Brief
Historical Survey 11
Logical Positivism and its Influence 16
2. Quantification and Literacy Studies 19
The Quantification of Literacy Studies 20
The Later Wittgenstein 23
The Influence of the Later Philosophy of Wittgenstein 26
Post Structuralism in Literary Studies 29
3. Quantification in History and Anthropology 33
Meaning and History 34
Postmodern Anthropology 40
4. The Risk Free Intellectual World 47
PART TWO: A RISK AVERSIVE SOCIETY
5. Health, Safety, and Environmental Risks 55
Why Have we Become a Risk Aversive Society? 57
The Professionalization of Risk Analysis 57
Why the Quantification of Risks Make Us
Risk Aversive 66
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6. Professional Risk Management 71
Quantification and its Problems 72
Further Attacks on the System 75
The Destabilization of Society 79
7. Risk Aversive Groups 85
A War of Numbers 86
The Changed Language of Discourse 88
Social Reconstruction 90
The 1991 Civil Rights Act 93
The Special Case of Homosexuals 95
The New Democracy 99
PART THREE: A RISK AVERSIVE ECONOMIC WORLD
8. The Fourth Stage of Entrepreneurial Activity 105
9. The Creation of a Risk Aversive Workforce 111
10. The Attacks on the New Entrepreneurs 123
Wall Street and the Crash of 1987 123
Junk Bonds and LBOs 127
The New Bankers and the Saving and Loan Debacle 131
The End of an Era 137
Whither Entrepreneurship? 139
PART FOUR: A RISK AVERSIVE POLITY
11. The Crisis of Democracy 143
The Social Indicators Movement 144
Opinion Polls 146
Public Opinion Polls in the 1960s and 1970s 148
The Computer and Ideological Polarization 152
12. The Rise of the Permanent Candidate 157
The Decline of the Legislator 158
The Emergence of the Permanent Candidate 160
Conclusion: The Spell of Descartes 171
References 179
Index 187
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