1500s
1800s
A01=Mary Poovey
archival
Author_Mary Poovey
belief
bookkeeping
british
Category=KCZ
Category=NHB
Category=NHTB
Category=QDTK
credulity
description
economics
economy
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eq_business-finance-law
eq_history
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eq_non-fiction
facts
government
historical
income
influential
information
interpersonal
knowing
knowledge
manual
modernity
monetary
money
observation
publication
published
questions
science
social
statistics
theoretical
theory
understanding
Product details
- ISBN 9780226675251
- Weight: 822g
- Dimensions: 17 x 23mm
- Publication Date: 01 Dec 1998
- Publisher: The University of Chicago Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Hardback
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Exploring such questions as "how did fact become modernity's most favoured unit of knowledge?", this text contains ideas and texts from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830s. It shows how the production of systematic knowledge from descriptions of observed particulars influenced government; how numerical representation became the privileged vehicle for generating useful facts; and how belief - whether figured as credit, credibility, or credulity - remained essential to the production of knowledge.
