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The sum of our discontent : 1 2 3 4 5, how numbers make us irrational / David Boyle.
Van Pelt Library QA141.15 .B69 2001
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Boyle, David, 1958-
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Number concept.
- Statistics--Social aspects.
- Statistics.
- Numbers, Real--History.
- Numbers, Real.
- History.
- Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- xix, 198 pages ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Texere, [2001]
- Summary:
- This interdisciplinary book reveals how numbers, quantifying and statistics affect civilization through philosophy, science, art and business. Satellite TV tour.
- Contents:
- 1 A Short History of Counting 1
- 2 Jeremy Bentham and the Measure of Happiness 13
- 3 Damage by Numbers 29
- 4 Robert Malthus and the Death of Moral Statistics 47
- 5 The "Feel Good Factor" 67
- 6 Fredericr Taylor's Time Machine 87
- 7 Toward an Ethical Profit Line 108
- 8 The Fine Balance of John Maynard Reynes 129
- 9 The New Indicators 146
- 10 Edgar Cahn and the Price of Everything 162
- 11 The Bottom Line 184.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references (pages [197]-198).
- ISBN:
- 1587990601 :
- OCLC:
- 47195017
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