How Numbers Rule the World: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics: Economic Controversies
Autor Lorenzo Fioramontien Limba Engleză Paperback – 16 ian 2014
In How Numbers Rule the World, Lorenzo Fioramonti reveals the hidden agendas underpinning the use of statistics and those who control them. Most worryingly, he shows how numbers have been used as a means to reinforce the grip of markets on our social and political life, curtailing public participation and rational debate.
An innovative and timely exposé of the politics, power and contestation of numbers.
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Specificații
ISBN-13: 9781780322674
ISBN-10: 1780322674
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 138 x 214 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Zed Books
Seria Economic Controversies
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
ISBN-10: 1780322674
Pagini: 280
Dimensiuni: 138 x 214 x 18 mm
Greutate: 0.36 kg
Editura: Bloomsbury Publishing
Colecția Zed Books
Seria Economic Controversies
Locul publicării:London, United Kingdom
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Cuprins
Introduction: The politics of statistics
1. The power of numbers
2. New global rulers: the untameable power of credit rating
3. Fiddling while the planet burns: the marketization of climate change
4. Measuring the unmeasurable: the financialization of nature
5. Numbers for good? The quest for aid effectiveness and social impact
Conclusion: Rethinking numbers, rethinking governance
1. The power of numbers
2. New global rulers: the untameable power of credit rating
3. Fiddling while the planet burns: the marketization of climate change
4. Measuring the unmeasurable: the financialization of nature
5. Numbers for good? The quest for aid effectiveness and social impact
Conclusion: Rethinking numbers, rethinking governance
Recenzii
Lorenzo Fioramonti has written an urgent and highly accessible book, showing just how over-reliant our governance systems are on misleading numbers, which support market power and blur our understanding of the world. And it is also a better and more compelling read than exactly 95.4% of all other important books!
This book is a thoughtful political economic analysis of how our fates have come to be determined by a few numbers, and how these numbers have been shaped by a few people. If we want a vibrant and responsive politics, we'll need to know where it has been enclosed by the world's powerful accountants. Fioramonti's book provides an excellent map.
Timely and original, scholarly without ostentation, often scathing, Lorenzo Fioramonti's field guide to the prejudices, assumptions, financial interests and ideology that lurk behind the most innocent-seeming numbers equips us to challenge their spurious authority. Faith in numbers has helped to wreck the financial system, masked fraud and criminal activity, allowed the world's richest people to meddle in the "development" of societies they know nothing about and could lead us to damage our earthly habitat beyond recall. If you want to learn what numbers reveal and conceal; what can and, above all, can't be measured, don't trust the "experts" - read How Numbers Rule the World and become an expert yourself.
This book is a thoughtful political economic analysis of how our fates have come to be determined by a few numbers, and how these numbers have been shaped by a few people. If we want a vibrant and responsive politics, we'll need to know where it has been enclosed by the world's powerful accountants. Fioramonti's book provides an excellent map.
Timely and original, scholarly without ostentation, often scathing, Lorenzo Fioramonti's field guide to the prejudices, assumptions, financial interests and ideology that lurk behind the most innocent-seeming numbers equips us to challenge their spurious authority. Faith in numbers has helped to wreck the financial system, masked fraud and criminal activity, allowed the world's richest people to meddle in the "development" of societies they know nothing about and could lead us to damage our earthly habitat beyond recall. If you want to learn what numbers reveal and conceal; what can and, above all, can't be measured, don't trust the "experts" - read How Numbers Rule the World and become an expert yourself.