Includes bibliographical references (p. 387-407) and index.
Contents:
The modern fact, the problem of induction, and questions of method -- Accommodating merchants: double-entry bookkeeping, mercantile expertise, and the effect of accuracy -- The political anatomy of the economy: English science and Irish land -- Experimental moral philosophy and the problems of liberal governmentality -- From conjectural history to political economy -- Reconfiguring facts and theory: vestiges of providentialism in the new science of wealth -- Figures of arithmetic, figures of speech: the problem of induction in the 1830s.
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