“The Moral Economy of Science”

Statistical Modeling, Causal Inference, and Social Science 2020-05-29

In our discussion of Lorraine Daston’s “How Probabilities Came to Be Objective and Subjective,” commenter John Richters points to Daston’s 1995 article, “The Moral Economy of Science,” which is super-interesting and also something I’d never heard of before. I should really read the whole damn article and comment on everything in it, but for now I’ll just issue this pointer and let you do some of the work of reading and commenting.