Can I read Calculated Values on EtoBox?

Calculated Values by William Deringer is a book available to read on EtoBox.

What is Calculated Values about?

Cover 1 Title Page 4 Copyright 5 Dedication 6 Contents 8 Preface: Quantification and Its Discontents 10 Notes on Style 22 Introduction: Political Calculations 26 1. Finding the Money: Public Accounting and Political Arithmetic after 1688 68 2. The Great Project of the Equivalent: A Story of the Number 398,0851⁄2 104 3. The Balance-of-Trade Battle and the Party Politics of Calculation in 1713–1714 140 4. The Preeminent Bookkeepers in Christendom: Personalities of Calculation 178 5. Intrinsic Values: Figuring Out the South Sea Bubble 212 6. Futures Projected: Robert Walpole’s Political Calculations 252 7. Figures, Which They Thought Could Not Lie: The Problem with Calculation in the Eighteenth Century 288 Conclusion 325 Archival Collections Cited 350 Notes on Printed Sources 352 Abbreviations 354 Notes 356 Acknowledgments 424 Index 430

Author

William Deringer

Language

EN