The Politics of Large Numbers
A History of Statistical Reasoning
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Harvard University Press
USA
1998
Hardcover
384
Standard
270597
978-0-674-68932-9
0-674-68932-1
Annotation
Statistics-driven thinking is ubiquitous in modern society. In this study of the history of statistics, which begins with probability theory in the 17th century, Alain Desrosieres shows how the evolution of modern statistics has been inextricably bound up with the knowledge and power of governments. He traces the complex reciprocity between modern governments and the mathematical artifacts that both dictate the duties of the state and measure its successes.
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