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Banks and banking --- Finance --- History. --- Roosevelt, Franklin D. --- Oratory. --- United States --- Politics and government

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Communication in economic development --- Economic development --- Globalization --- Rhetoric --- Rhetorical criticism. --- Social aspects. --- Speech criticism --- Language and languages --- Speaking --- Criticism --- Oratory --- Public speaking --- Authorship --- Expression --- Literary style --- Rhetorical criticism --- Social aspects --- E-books

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Modern political culture features a deep-seated faith in the power of numbers to find answers, settle disputes, and explain how the world works. Whether evaluating economic trends, measuring the success of institutions, or divining public opinion, we are told that numbers don't lie. But numbers have not always been so revered. Calculated Values traces how numbers first gained widespread public authority in one nation, Great Britain. Into the seventeenth century, numerical reasoning bore no special weight in political life. Complex calculations were often regarded with suspicion, seen as the narrow province of navigators, bookkeepers, and astrologers, not gentlemen. This changed in the decades following the Glorious Revolution of 1688. Though Britons' new quantitative enthusiasm coincided with major advances in natural science, financial capitalism, and the power of the British state, it was no automatic consequence of those developments, William Deringer argues. Rather, it was a product of politics--ugly, antagonistic, partisan politics. From Parliamentary debates to cheap pamphlets, disputes over taxes, trade, and national debt were increasingly conducted through calculations. Some of the era's most pivotal political moments, like the 1707 Union of England and Scotland and the 1720 South Sea Bubble, turned upon calculative conflicts. As Britons learned to fight by the numbers, they came to believe, as one calculator wrote in 1727, that "facts and figures are the most stubborn evidences." Yet the authority of numbers arose not from efforts to find objective truths that transcended politics, but from the turmoil of politics itself.--

Quantitative research --- Numerical calculations --- Persuasion (Rhetoric) --- Rhetoric --- Forensics (Public speaking) --- Oratory --- Numerical analysis --- Data analysis (Quantitative research) --- Exploratory data analysis (Quantitative research) --- Quantitative analysis (Research) --- Quantitative methods (Research) --- Research --- History --- Political aspects --- Great Britain --- Politics and government --- History. --- Political aspects.

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A collection of speeches and writings by the Mexican American labor activist and head of the United Farm Workers.

Discourse analysis. --- Persuasion (Rhetoric) --- Labor leaders --- Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers. --- Migrant agricultural laborers --- Mexican American labor union members. --- Discourse analysis --- Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers --- Mexican American labor union members --- Labor & Workers' Economics --- Business & Economics --- Discourse grammar --- Text grammar --- Semantics --- Semiotics --- Labor union members, Mexican American --- Labor unions --- Labor union members --- Agricultural migrants --- Migrant agricultural workers --- Migrant farm workers --- Migrants --- Agricultural laborers --- Migrant labor --- Migrant agricultural laborers, Mexican American --- Labor movement leaders --- Leaders, Labor --- Social reformers --- Rhetoric --- Forensics (Public speaking) --- Oratory --- Mexican American membership --- Chavez, Cesar, --- Chavez, Cesar Estrada, --- Oratory. --- United Farm Workers --- United Farm Workers Organizing Committee --- United Farm Workers of America --- UFW --- United Farmworkers --- Unión de Trabajadores Campesinos --- History --- E-books