Volume 6, Issue 2: June 2009

How Well Do ‘Facts' Travel?

Sabina Leonelli and Peter Howlett

It is often assumed that a fact is a fact is a fact, yet those who work across disciplinary boundaries are well aware that the life of a fact is not so simple. Even everyday experience suggests that, like gossip, facts that travel rarely remain stable. This special issue comprises four papers analysing how well “facts” travel between and within social contexts, and why evidence considered acceptable in one context retains or loses its status in another. Each paper focuses on a different type of vehicle for the travel of facts... [read more]

Index [PDF]

Editorial

Sabina Leonelli and Peter Howlett, ‘How Well Do ‘Facts' Travel?', pp. 1-2 [PDF]

Articles

• Peter Howlett and Mary S. Morgan

  Introduction: How Well Do ‘Facts' Travel?, pp. 3-6 [PDF]

• Ashley Millar

  Authority and Parenthood: how facts on China's political economy travelled to and within Europe during the Enlightenment, pp. 7-33 [PDF]

• Albane Forestier

  Networks, long distance trade and the circulation of commercial facts in the eighteenth century Atlantic, pp. 34-63 [PDF]

• Aashish Velkar

  Quality Standards and Travelling Facts in the British Wheat Markets of the Nineteenth Century, pp. 64-93 [PDF]

• Julia Mensink

  Poverty facts travelling between production and usage domains: How successful has the HDI been?, pp. 94-122 [PDF]