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Document Type: | Book |
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All Authors / Contributors: |
Lorenzo Fioramonti |
ISBN: | 9781780322681 1780322682 9781780322674 1780322674 |
OCLC Number: | 898666283 |
Description: | VII, 271 str. : graf. prikazi ; 22 cm. |
Contents: | The politics of statistics -- The power of numbers -- New global rulers : the untameable power of credit rating -- Fiddling while the planet burns : the marketization of climate change -- Measuring the unmeasurable : the financialization of nature -- Numbers for good? : the quest for aid effectiveness and social impact -- Rethinking numbers, rethinking governance. |
Responsibility: | Lorenzo Fioramonti. |
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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 Read more...

