Calculated Values

Calculated Values
Author: William Deringer
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 439
Release: 2018-02-19
Genre: Business & Economics
ISBN: 0674971876

Modern political culture features a deep-seated faith in the power of numbers. But quantitative evidence has not always been revered, as William Deringer shows. After the 1688 Revolution, as Britons learned to fight by the numbers, their enthusiasm for figures arose not from efforts to find objective truths but from the turmoil of politics itself.