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 .
<br/><br/> "Originally published by Cambridge University Press in 1994 as a special issue of the journal Science in context"--T.p. verso. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>0521553253  0521556996  
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>95038403 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Accounting<br/>Management science<br/>Commercial statistics.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>657