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Quantifying the World
Michael Ward
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Description for Quantifying the World
Paperback. Explores the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of the UN's statistical work and how each dimension has provided opportunities for describing the well-being of the world community. This book reveals some of the missed opportunities for pursuing alternative models. Series: United Nations Intellectual History Project. Num Pages: 352 pages, 3 figures, 1 index. BIC Classification: H; JPS. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 236 x 155 x 17. Weight in Grams: 502.
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 postwar 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 unraveling the question of why certain data were considered important and why other data ... Read more
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Format
Paperback
Publication date
2004
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
352
Condition
New
Series
United Nations Intellectual History Project
Number of Pages
253
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253216748
SKU
V9780253216748
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About Michael Ward
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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