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Preface: Quantification and Its Discontents
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William Deringer
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Preface: Quantification and Its Discontents ix
- Notes on Style xxi
- Introduction: Political Calculations 1
- Finding the Money: Public Accounting and Political Arithmetic after 1688 43
- The Great Project of the Equivalent: a Story of the Number 398,085½ 79
- The Balance-of-Trade Battle and the Party Politics of Calculation in 1713–1714 115
- The Preeminent Bookkeepers in Christendom: Personalities of Calculation 153
- Intrinsic Values: Figuring Out the South Sea Bubble 187
- Futures Projected: Robert Walpole’s Political Calculations 227
- Figures, Which They Thought Could Not Lie: The Problem with Calculation in the Eighteenth Century 263
- Conclusion 300
- Archival Collections Cited 325
- Notes on Printed Sources 327
- Abbreviations 329
- Notes 331
- Acknowledgments 399
- Index 405
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents vii
- Preface: Quantification and Its Discontents ix
- Notes on Style xxi
- Introduction: Political Calculations 1
- Finding the Money: Public Accounting and Political Arithmetic after 1688 43
- The Great Project of the Equivalent: a Story of the Number 398,085½ 79
- The Balance-of-Trade Battle and the Party Politics of Calculation in 1713–1714 115
- The Preeminent Bookkeepers in Christendom: Personalities of Calculation 153
- Intrinsic Values: Figuring Out the South Sea Bubble 187
- Futures Projected: Robert Walpole’s Political Calculations 227
- Figures, Which They Thought Could Not Lie: The Problem with Calculation in the Eighteenth Century 263
- Conclusion 300
- Archival Collections Cited 325
- Notes on Printed Sources 327
- Abbreviations 329
- Notes 331
- Acknowledgments 399
- Index 405
