Measurements are a central institutional component of markets and
economic exchange. By the nineteenth century, the measurement
system in Britain was desperately in need of revision: a
multiplicity of measurement standards, proliferation of local or
regional weights and measures, and a confusing array of measurement
practices made everyday measurements unreliable. Aashish Velkar
uncovers how metrology and economic logic alone failed to make
'measurements' reliable, and discusses the importance of localised
practices in shaping trust in them. Markets and Measurements in
Nineteenth-Century Britain steers away from the traditional
explanations of measurement reliability based on the
standardisation and centralisation of metrology; the focus is on
changing measurement practices in local economic contexts. Detailed
case studies from the industrial revolution suggest that such
practices were path-dependent and 'anthropocentric'. Therefore,
whilst standardised metrology may have improved precision, it was
localised practices that determined the reliability and
trustworthiness of measurements in economic contexts.
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