Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780691210544-008
T. Porter
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780691210544-003
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780691210544-fm
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780691210544-016
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Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780691210544-005
T. Porter
{"title":"CHAPTER ONE. A World of Artifice","authors":"T. Porter","doi":"10.1515/9780691210544-005","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691210544-005","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":178798,"journal":{"name":"Trust in Numbers","volume":"117 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"117296910","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780691210544-012
T. Porter
{"title":"CHAPTER EIGHT. Objectivity and the Politics of Disciplines","authors":"T. Porter","doi":"10.1515/9780691210544-012","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691210544-012","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":178798,"journal":{"name":"Trust in Numbers","volume":"50 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"114491931","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
Pub Date : 2020-12-31DOI: 10.1515/9780691210544-006
T. Porter
{"title":"CHAPTER TWO. How Social Numbers Are Made Valid","authors":"T. Porter","doi":"10.1515/9780691210544-006","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.1515/9780691210544-006","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":178798,"journal":{"name":"Trust in Numbers","volume":"49 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-12-31","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"116422867","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
{"title":"Acknowledgments","authors":"","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvxcrz2b.5","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvxcrz2b.5","url":null,"abstract":"","PeriodicalId":178798,"journal":{"name":"Trust in Numbers","volume":"321 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"115838569","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This chapter examines the approaches taken by natural scientists to economic questions. William Whewell looked to statistics as an alternative or at least an indispensable supplement to abstract theory in economics. He also looked to mathematics to impose discipline on theoretical political economy, and to block its indiscriminate application. The chapter then considers the economics of engineers and physicists. The economics of energy was not inconsistent with the more customary medium of economic quantification, money. The crucial feature here is the pursuit of measurement — of quantification in standard, comparable units. This was a form of economics patterned after physics that aimed less at theoretical elegance than at practical management and efficiency. The chapter also assesses how the career of Léon Walras, the great French nineteenth-century protagonist of mathematical economics, highlights the differences between the calculating engineers and the economic school that would seem to be closest to them.
{"title":"Economic Measurement and the Values of Science","authors":"T. Porter","doi":"10.2307/j.ctvxcrz2b.9","DOIUrl":"https://doi.org/10.2307/j.ctvxcrz2b.9","url":null,"abstract":"This chapter examines the approaches taken by natural scientists to economic questions. William Whewell looked to statistics as an alternative or at least an indispensable supplement to abstract theory in economics. He also looked to mathematics to impose discipline on theoretical political economy, and to block its indiscriminate application. The chapter then considers the economics of engineers and physicists. The economics of energy was not inconsistent with the more customary medium of economic quantification, money. The crucial feature here is the pursuit of measurement — of quantification in standard, comparable units. This was a form of economics patterned after physics that aimed less at theoretical elegance than at practical management and efficiency. The chapter also assesses how the career of Léon Walras, the great French nineteenth-century protagonist of mathematical economics, highlights the differences between the calculating engineers and the economic school that would seem to be closest to them.","PeriodicalId":178798,"journal":{"name":"Trust in Numbers","volume":"1 1","pages":"0"},"PeriodicalIF":0.0,"publicationDate":"2020-08-18","publicationTypes":"Journal Article","fieldsOfStudy":null,"isOpenAccess":false,"openAccessPdf":"","citationCount":null,"resultStr":null,"platform":"Semanticscholar","paperid":"126157644","PeriodicalName":null,"FirstCategoryId":null,"ListUrlMain":null,"RegionNum":0,"RegionCategory":"","ArticlePicture":[],"TitleCN":null,"AbstractTextCN":null,"PMCID":"","EPubDate":null,"PubModel":null,"JCR":null,"JCRName":null,"Score":null,"Total":0}
This chapter investigates the political philosophy of quantification. The intellectualist defense of quantification bears on the ethical issues. A system of demonstrably false or untestable dogmas, the product of state power and not of free persuasion, has obvious moral implications to anyone concerned about individual freedom. This point, indeed, has been at the heart of some of the most influential philosophical defenses of science in this century. John Dewey considered science an ally of democracy, and argued that scientific method means nothing more than the subjection of beliefs to skeptical inquiry. Karl Popper held it up as antidote to the century's totalitarianisms. While Popper did not stress quantification in his political philosophy of science, his terms could easily be applied to it. Although it is of course possible to use numbers casually and informally, quantification for public as well as scientific purposes has generally been allied to a spirit of rigor. The chapter then explores objectivity and objectification, as well as French statistics.
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