A History of the Modern Fact : Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society Atheism Harlem Shuffle

Harlem Shuffle

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Capitalism in the Web of Life shows how the critique of capitalism-in-nature—rather than capitalism and nature—is key to understanding our predicament

Thus the leading world economic powers of the next generation are just as likely to include China and Australia as the United States and Japan

A History of the Modern Fact : Problems of Knowledge in the Sciences of Wealth and Society Atheism Harlem ShuffleHow did the fact become modernity's most favored unit of knowledge? How did description come to seem separable from theory in the precursors of economics and the social sciences? Mary Poovey explores these questions in A History of the Modern Fact , ranging across an astonishing array of texts and ideas from the publication of the first British manual on double entry bookkeeping in 1588 to the institutionalization of statistics in the 1830s. She shows