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The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and Misrule
Current price:
$16.95
Publication Date: January 1st, 1995
Publisher:
AEI Press
ISBN:
9780844737645
Pages:
275
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Description
In this wide-ranging study, Nicholas Eberstadt demonstrates that some of the most basic of today's domestic and foreign policies have been buttressed or justified by what turns out to be misanalysis or misuse of available facts and figures. The Tyranny of Numbers not only warns about the ways the statistics are being misused in government policy in the United States and abroad but explains how this process can end up injuring vulnerable groups or distorting the workings of the democratic system.
About the Author
Nicholas Eberstadt is the Harry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy at AEI.