Statistics and the career of public reason: Engagement and detachment in a quantified world

Statistics and the Public Sphere: Numbers and the People in Modern Britain, c. 1800-2000

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 32-48

  Porter, Theodore M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

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EID: 84857651144     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.4324/9780203818671     Document Type: Chapter

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