A History of the Modern Fact: Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society

AcknowledgmentsIntroduction1: The Modern Fact, the Problem of Induction, and Questions of Method 2: Accommodating Merchants: Double-Entry Bookkeeping, Mercantile Expertise, and the Effect of Accuracy 3: The Political Anatomy of the Economy: English Science and Irish Land 4: Experimental Moral Philosophy and the Problems of Liberal Governmentality 5: From Conjectural History to Political Economy 6: Reconfiguring Facts and Theory: Vestiges of Providentialism in the New Science of Wealth 7: Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech: The Problem of Induction in the 1830s Notes Bibliography Index