Accounting and science : natural inquiry and commercial reason /
Accounting and science : natural inquiry and commercial reason /
edited by Michael Power.
- Cambridge ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1996.
- xvii, 288 p. ; 23 cm. + pbk.
- Cambridge studies in management ; 26 .
"Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1994 as a special issue of the journal Science in context"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From the science of accounts to the financial accountability of science / Michael Power -- Making things quantitative / Theodore M. Porter -- Natural and artificial budgets: accounting for Goethe's economy of nature / Myles W. Jackson -- A calculating profession: Victorian actuaries among the statisticians / Timothy L. Alborn -- The factory as laboratory / Peter Miller and Ted O'Leary -- Connecting science to the economic: accounting calculation and the visibility of research and development / Keith Robson -- Governing science: patents and public sector research / Brad Sherman -- On customers and costs: a story from public sector science / John Law and Madeline Akrich -- A visible hand in the marketplace of ideas: precision measurement as arbitrage / Philip Mirowksi -- Toward a philosophy of science accounting: a critical rendering of instrumental rationality / Steve Fuller.
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95038403
Accounting
Management science
Commercial statistics.
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"Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1994 as a special issue of the journal Science in context"--T.p. verso.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
From the science of accounts to the financial accountability of science / Michael Power -- Making things quantitative / Theodore M. Porter -- Natural and artificial budgets: accounting for Goethe's economy of nature / Myles W. Jackson -- A calculating profession: Victorian actuaries among the statisticians / Timothy L. Alborn -- The factory as laboratory / Peter Miller and Ted O'Leary -- Connecting science to the economic: accounting calculation and the visibility of research and development / Keith Robson -- Governing science: patents and public sector research / Brad Sherman -- On customers and costs: a story from public sector science / John Law and Madeline Akrich -- A visible hand in the marketplace of ideas: precision measurement as arbitrage / Philip Mirowksi -- Toward a philosophy of science accounting: a critical rendering of instrumental rationality / Steve Fuller.
0521553253 0521556996
95038403
Accounting
Management science
Commercial statistics.
657