Power, Michael L. (Editor)
Cambridge University Press
Physical Details: xvii + 288 pp.; notes; index
Description Originally published in Science in Context, 1994. New foreword by Latour, Bruno. Contents: Latour, Bruno: Foreword: The flat-earthers of social theory. Power, Michael: Introduction: From the science of accounts to the financial accountability of science. Porter, Theodore M.: Making things quantitative. Jackson, Myles W.: Natural and artificial budgets: Accounting for Goethe's economy of nature. Alborn, Timothy L.: A calculating profession: Victorian actuaries among the statisticians. Miller, Peter, O'Leary, Ted: The factory as laboratory. Robson, Keith: Connecting science to the economic: Accounting calculation and the visibility of research and development. Sherman, Brad: Governing science: Patents and public sector research. Law, John, Akrich, Madeleine: On customers and costs: A story from public sector science. Mirowksi, Philip: A visible hand in the marketplace of ideas: Precision measurement as arbitrage. Fuller, Steve: Toward a philosophy of science accounting: A critical rendering of instrumental rationality.
Review Nightingale, S. (1999) Review of "Accounting and science: Natural inquiry and commercial reason". British Journal for the History of Science (pp. 375-77).
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