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Thompson/Texere
Language
English
Pages
200

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Subjects
Social aspects of Statistics, Statistics, Social aspects, Number concept, Real Numbers, Popular works, History

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Table of Contents

Introduction. A short history of counting
Jeremy Bentham and the measure of happiness
Damage by numbers
Robert Malthus and the death of moral statistics
The feelgood factor
Frederick Taylor's time machine
Toward an ethical profit line
The fine balance of John Maynard Keynes
The new indicators
Edgar Cahn and the price of everything
The bottom line.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references (p. [197]-198).

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Genre
Popular works.

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
510
Library of Congress
QA141 .B69 2004

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Pagination
xix, 200 p. ;
Number of pages
200

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Open Library
OL3325474M
ISBN 10
1587991675
LCCN
2004298963
OCLC/WorldCat
54898861
Library Thing
1233960
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1154919

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