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Quantifying the World

Quantifying the World UN Ideas and Statistics - United Nations Intellectual History Project

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Good data, Michael Ward argues, serve to enhance a perception about life as well as to deepen an understanding of reality. This history of the UN's role in fostering international statistics in the postwar period demonstrates how statistics have shaped our understanding of the world. Drawing on well over 40 years of experience working as a statistician and economist in more than two dozen countries around the world, Ward traces the evolution of statistical ideas and how they have responded to the needs of policy while unraveling the question of why certain data were considered important and why other data and concerns were not. The book explores the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of the UN's statistical work and how each dimension has provided opportunities for describing the well-being of the world community. Quantifying the World also reveals some of the missed opportunities for pursuing alternative models.

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Book information

ISBN: 9780253216748
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Imprint: Indiana University Press
Pub date:
DEWEY: 001.40601
DEWEY edition: 22
Language: English
Number of pages: 329
Weight: 502g
Height: 236mm
Width: 155mm
Spine width: 17mm