Calculated values :: finance, politics, and the quantitative age /
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...
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| Zusammenfassung: | 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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| Bibliographie: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| contents | 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. |
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| spelling | Deringer, William, 1984- author. Calculated values : finance, politics, and the quantitative age / William Deringer. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2018. 1 online resource text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier 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.-- Provided by publisher Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. Online resource; title from PDF title page (EBSCO, viewed February 6, 2018). Great Britain Politics and government 1603-1714. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056891 Great Britain Politics and government 18th century. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85056900 Quantitative research Great Britain History. Numerical calculations History. Numerical calculations Political aspects. Persuasion (Rhetoric) Political aspects. Grande-Bretagne Politique et gouvernement 1603-1714. Grande-Bretagne Politique et gouvernement 18e siècle. Recherche quantitative Grande-Bretagne Histoire. Calculs numériques Histoire. Calculs numériques Aspect politique. HISTORY Europe Great Britain. bisacsh BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Economic History. bisacsh Numerical calculations fast Persuasion (Rhetoric) Political aspects fast Politics and government fast Quantitative research fast Great Britain fast https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJdmp7p3cx8hpmJ8HvmTpP 1603-1799 fast Electronic books. History fast has work: Calculated values (Text) https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCGpHxbyRhjxkkdVWhGKR4y https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork FWS01 ZDB-4-EBU FWS_PDA_EBU https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1680149 Volltext |
| spellingShingle | Deringer, William, 1984- Calculated values : finance, politics, and the quantitative age / 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. Quantitative research Great Britain History. Numerical calculations History. Numerical calculations Political aspects. Persuasion (Rhetoric) Political aspects. Recherche quantitative Grande-Bretagne Histoire. Calculs numériques Histoire. Calculs numériques Aspect politique. HISTORY Europe Great Britain. bisacsh BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Economic History. bisacsh Numerical calculations fast Persuasion (Rhetoric) Political aspects fast Politics and government fast Quantitative research fast |
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| title | Calculated values : finance, politics, and the quantitative age / |
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| title_full | Calculated values : finance, politics, and the quantitative age / William Deringer. |
| title_fullStr | Calculated values : finance, politics, and the quantitative age / William Deringer. |
| title_full_unstemmed | Calculated values : finance, politics, and the quantitative age / William Deringer. |
| title_short | Calculated values : |
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| topic | Quantitative research Great Britain History. Numerical calculations History. Numerical calculations Political aspects. Persuasion (Rhetoric) Political aspects. Recherche quantitative Grande-Bretagne Histoire. Calculs numériques Histoire. Calculs numériques Aspect politique. HISTORY Europe Great Britain. bisacsh BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Economic History. bisacsh Numerical calculations fast Persuasion (Rhetoric) Political aspects fast Politics and government fast Quantitative research fast |
| topic_facet | Great Britain Politics and government 1603-1714. Great Britain Politics and government 18th century. Quantitative research Great Britain History. Numerical calculations History. Numerical calculations Political aspects. Persuasion (Rhetoric) Political aspects. Grande-Bretagne Politique et gouvernement 1603-1714. Grande-Bretagne Politique et gouvernement 18e siècle. Recherche quantitative Grande-Bretagne Histoire. Calculs numériques Histoire. Calculs numériques Aspect politique. HISTORY Europe Great Britain. BUSINESS & ECONOMICS Economic History. Numerical calculations Persuasion (Rhetoric) Political aspects Politics and government Quantitative research Great Britain Electronic books. History |
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