Quantifying the world :: UN ideas and statistics /

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 post-war period demonstrates how statistics have shaped our understanding of the world. Drawing o...

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1. Verfasser: Ward, Michael
Format: Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:English
Veröffentlicht: Bloomington, Ind. : Indiana University Press, ©2004.
Schriftenreihe:United Nations intellectual history project.
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Zusammenfassung: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 post-war 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 unravelling the question of why certain data were considered important and.
Beschreibung:1 online resource (xx, 329 pages) : illustrations
Bibliographie:Includes bibliographical references (pages 281-309) and index.
ISBN:025311084X
9780253110848
1282071483
9781282071483