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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London :
Zed Books ,
c2014
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Table of Contents:
- 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