A History of the Modern Fact

A History of the Modern Fact

Author: Mary Poovey

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2009-11-30

Total Pages: 446

ISBN-13: 0226675181

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How 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 1830s. 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.


The Theory of International Trade

The Theory of International Trade

Author: John Somerset Chipman

Publisher: Edward Elgar Publishing

Published: 2008-01-01

Total Pages: 376

ISBN-13: 9781781959527

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John Chipman is one of the most esteemed economists working in international trade theory. Presented in two volumes, this work presents Chipman's survey articles on the theory of international trade. The papers explore the evolution of thought from classical to new-classical and on to modern theory.


The Tradition of Free Trade

The Tradition of Free Trade

Author: Lars Magnusson

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2004-07-15

Total Pages: 209

ISBN-13: 113450537X

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An investigation of the invention of 'Free Trade vs Protectionism' debate in the nineteenth century and a look at the later interpretations of the ideas of Smith and Ricardo, and the classical economists by writers in Britain, Sweden and America.