Quantifying the World
Un Ideas and Statistics
Good data, Michael Ward argues, serve to enhance a perception about lifeas well as to deepen an understanding of reality. This history of the UN's role infostering international statistics in the postwar period demonstrates how statisticshave shaped our understanding of the world. Drawing on well over 40 years ofexperience working as a statistician and economist in more than two dozen countriesaround the world, Ward traces the evolution of statistical ideas and how they haveresponded to the needs of policy while unraveling the question of why certain datawere considered important and why other data and concerns were not. The bookexplores the…
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Weitere Autoren: Emmerij, Louis (Hrsg.) / Jolly, Richard (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-0-253-21674-8
- EAN: 9780253216748
- Produktnummer: 9886991
- Verlag: Indiana University Press (IPS)
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2004
- Seitenangabe: 352 S.
- Masse: H23.4 cm x B15.6 cm x D1.8 cm 535 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 535
Über den Autor
Michael Ward is past Director of Studies in Economics and Dean of Selwyn College, University of Cambridge, and Principal Economist in Operations (S. E. Asia) and Policy at the World Bank. He is Council member and former Chair of the International Association for Research in Income and Wealth.
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