The Statistician's stomach: Mollie Orshansky and the moral arithmetic of poverty
Abstract
Statistics has often been described as a technology of distance, a method for rendering populations legible to a state that governs from afar (Porter 1995). At its most callous, it has been used to...
Fields of Study & Subjects
Income
Poverty
and Inequality
Statistics Education and Methodologies
Contemporary Sociological Theory and Practice
Publication details
- Journal / source
- British Journal for the History of Mathematics
- Volume
- 41
- Issue
- 1
- Pages
- 82–88
- Publication date
- 2 January 2026
- Language
- EN