LEADER 04399nam 2200685 a 450 001 9910785427103321 005 20230322215624.0 010 $a1-283-05850-2 010 $a9786613058508 010 $a0-226-67518-1 024 7 $a10.7208/9780226675183 035 $a(CKB)2670000000066687 035 $a(EBL)648148 035 $a(OCoLC)695993894 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000470002 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11335271 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000470002 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10530912 035 $a(PQKB)11559749 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC648148 035 $a(DE-B1597)535819 035 $a(OCoLC)1027503050 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780226675183 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL648148 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10438634 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL305850 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000066687 100 $a19980115d1998 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||#|||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 12$aA history of the modern fact $eproblems of knowledge in the sciences of wealth and society /$fMary Poovey 210 1$aChicago :$cUniversity of Chicago Press,$d1998. 215 $a1 online resource (446 pages) 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 0 $a0-226-67526-2 311 0 $a0-226-67525-4 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tCONTENTS --$tACKNOWLEDGMENTS --$tINTRODUCTION --$t1. THE MODERN FACT, THE PROBLEM OF INDUCTION, AND QUESTIONS OF METHOD --$t2. ACCOMMODATING MERCHANTS: DOUBLE-ENTRY BOOKKEEPING, MERCANTILE EXPERTISE, AND THE EFFECT OF ACCURACY --$t3. THE POLITICAL ANATOMY OF THE ECONOMY: ENGLISH SCIENCE AND IRISH LAND --$t4. EXPERIMENTAL MORAL PHILOSOPHY AND THE PROBLEMS OF LIBERAL GOVERNMENTALITY --$t5. FROM CONJECTURAL HISTORY TO POLITICAL ECONOMY --$t6. RECONFIGURING FACTS AND THEORY: VESTIGES OF PROVIDENTIALISM IN THE NEW SCIENCE OF WEALTH --$t7. FIGURES OF ARITHMETIC, FIGURES OF SPEECH: THE PROBLEM OF INDUCTION IN THE 1830's --$tNOTES --$tBIBLIOGRAPHY --$tINDEX 330 $aHow did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and the social sciences? Mary Poovey explores these questions in A History of the Modern Fact, ranging across an astonishing array of texts and ideas from the publication of the first British manual on double-entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830's. She 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. Illuminating the epistemological conditions that have made modern social and economic knowledge possible, A History of the Modern Fact provides important contributions to the history of political thought, economics, science, and philosophy, as well as to literary and cultural criticism. 606 $aSocial sciences$zGreat Britain$xStatistical methods$xHistory 606 $aSocial sciences$zGreat Britain$xStatistics$xHistory 606 $aSocial sciences$xStatistical methods$xHistory 606 $aSocial sciences$xStatistics$xHistory 610 $afacts, theory, social sciences, intellectual history, economics, texts, statistics, politics, political, philosophy, credibility, systemic knowledge, wealth, society, cultural criticism, epistemological conditions, literary, modernity, description, ideas, great britain, publication, government, public policy, numerical representation, bookkeeping, belief systems, memory, credulity, statistical methods, liberal governmentality, figures of speech. 615 0$aSocial sciences$xStatistical methods$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial sciences$xStatistics$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial sciences$xStatistical methods$xHistory. 615 0$aSocial sciences$xStatistics$xHistory. 676 $a300/.7/2041 700 $aPoovey$b Mary$0149338 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910785427103321 996 $aA history of the modern fact$93734261 997 $aUNINA