How Numbers Rule the World: The Use and Abuse of Statistics in Global Politics (Economic Controversies) - Softcover

Fioramonti, Lorenzo

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1780322674 ISBN 13: 9781780322674

Verlag: Zed Books Ltd, 2014

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'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!' David Boyle, author of The Tyranny of Numbers '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.' Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy '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.' Susan George, author of Whose Crisis, Whose Future? and President of the Board, Transnational Institute

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Numbers dominate global politics and, as a result, our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with climate change, poverty and sustainability. But what is behind these numbers? 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 expose of the politics, power and contestation of numbers.

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• Verlag: Zed Books Ltd
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2014
• ISBN 10: 1780322674
• ISBN 13: 9781780322674
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 280