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The Tyranny of Numbers - Mismeasurement and Misrule (Paperback, New)
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The Tyranny of Numbers - Mismeasurement and Misrule (Paperback, New)
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Loot Price R455
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Throughout the world, numbers are increasingly used to guide acts
of government - but not always for the better. In this volume, the
author examines the facts and figures that have led to measures
unhelpful or injurious to their intended beneficiaries. The Tyranny
of Numbers offers a look at problems such as world hunger, the
population explosion, the Third World debt crisis, and the poverty
in South Africa, in which misdiagnoses have driven action. In
America, the author argues, antipoverty programmes proceed without
an understanding of what the data actually show about living
standards and child health. And our surprise at the collapse of
communism in Eastern Europe and the crisis in the USSR may betray
an equal misunderstanding of data that revealed the weakness in
those systems.
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