How numbers rule the world : the use and abuse of statistics in global politics

In this eye-opening book, Lorenzo Fioramonti provides a much-needed critique of the current 'data fever', showing both the direct consequences and indirect implications of the increasing power of numbers. At the same time, it investigates innovative attempts to resist the invasion of mains...

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Main Author: Fioramonti, Lorenzo (Author)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: London : Zed Books , c2014
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300 |a vii, 271 p. :   |b ill. ;   |c 22 cm. 
504 |a Includes bibliographical references (p. [246]-260) and index 
505 0 |a 1. The politics of statistics -- 2. The power of numbers -- 3. New global rulers: the untamable power of credit of credit rating -- 4. Fiddling while the planet burns: the marketization of climate change -- 5. Measuring the unmeasurable: the financialization of nature -- 6. Numbers for good? The quest for aid effectiveness and social impart -- 7. Rethinking numbers, rethinking governance 
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650 0 |a Communication in politics 
650 0 |a Economic indicators 
650 0 |a Government information 
650 0 |a Political statistics 
650 0 |a Social indicators 
650 0 |a Statistics   |x Social aspects 
999 |a 1000163011   |b Book   |c OPEN SHELF (30 DAYS)   |e Gong Badak Campus