Figures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech: The Discourse of Statistics in the 1830s

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Previous articleNext article No AccessFigures of Arithmetic, Figures of Speech: The Discourse of Statistics in the 1830sMary PooveyMary Poovey Search for more articles by this author PDFPDF PLUS Add to favoritesDownload CitationTrack CitationsPermissionsReprints Share onFacebookTwitterLinkedInRedditEmail SectionsMoreDetailsFiguresReferencesCited by Critical Inquiry Volume 19, Number 2Winter, 1993 Article DOIhttps://doi.org/10.1086/448674 Views: 31Total views on this site Citations: 51Citations are reported from Crossref Copyright 1993 The University of ChicagoPDF download Crossref reports the following articles citing this article:Sophie Day, Celia Lury, Helen Ward Personalization: a new political arithmetic?, Distinktion: Journal of Social Theory 12 (Jan 2023): 1–28.https://doi.org/10.1080/1600910X.2022.2098352Brendan Lawson, Matthew Lovatt Towards a rhetorical understanding of statistics in politics: Quantifying the National Health Service ‘Winter Crisis’, European Journal of Communication 36, no.22 (Nov 2020): 110–124.https://doi.org/10.1177/0267323120966842Ben Huf Averages, indexes and national income: accounting for progress in colonial Australia, Accounting History Review 30, no.11 (Oct 2019): 7–43.https://doi.org/10.1080/21552851.2019.1670220M. 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