| Preface | |
| Acknowledgments | |
| Introduction: Cultures of Objectivity | 3 |
| Pt. I | Power in Numbers | 9 |
| Ch. 1 | A World of Artifice | 11 |
| Ch. 2 | How Social Numbers Are Made Valid | 33 |
| Ch. 3 | Economic Measurement and the Values of Science | 49 |
| Ch. 4 | The Political Philosophy of Quantification | 73 |
| Pt. II | Technologies of Trust | 87 |
| Ch. 5 | Experts against Objectivity: Accountants and Actuaries | 89 |
| Ch. 6 | French State Engineers and the Ambiguities of Technocracy | 114 |
| Ch. 7 | U.S. Army Engineers and the Rise of Cost-Benefit Analysis | 148 |
| Pt. III | Political and Scientific Communities | 191 |
| Ch. 8 | Objectivity and the Politics of Disciplines | 193 |
| Ch. 9 | Is Science Made by Communities? | 217 |
| Notes | 233 |
| Bibliography | 269 |
| Index | 303 |
