Tool shock: Technique and epistemology in the postwar social sciences

History of Political Economy

Volumn 42, Issue SUPPL1, 2010, Pages 133-164

  Isaac, Joel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 79956248398     PISSN: 00182702     EISSN: 15271919     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1215/00182702-2009-075     Document Type: Article

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