Preface

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Preface vii
4. Acknowledgments xiii
5. Introduction. Cultures of Objectivity 1
6. PART I: POWER IN NUMBERS
7. Chapter One. A World of Artifice 11
8. Chapter Two. How Social Numbers Are Made Valid 33
9. Chapter Three. Economic Measurement and the Values of Science 49
10. Chapter Four. The Political Philosophy of Quantification 73
11. PART II: TECHNOLOGIES OF TRUST
12. Chapter Five. Experts against Objectivity: Accountants and Actuaries 89
13. Chapter Six. French State Engineers and the Ambiguities of Technocracy 114
14. Chapter Seven. U.S. Army Engineers and the Rise of Cost-Benefit Analysis 148
15. PART III: POLITICAL AND SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITIES
16. Chapter Eight. Objectivity and the Politics of Disciplines 193
17. Chapter Nine. Is Science Made by Communities? 217
18. Notes 233
19. Bibliography 269
20. Index 303