The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning by Alain Desrosières

The Politics of Large Numbers: A History of Statistical Reasoning

Alain Desrosières

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Statistics-driven thinking is ubiquitous in modern society. In this ambitious and sophisticated study of the history of statistics, which begins with probability theory in the seventeenth century, Alain Desrosières shows how the evolution of moder...

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