“Required studying for anybody who’s within the reality.” —Robert Reich
In a post-Trumpian world the place COVID charges soar and People wage close to–civil conflict about election outcomes, Deborah Stone’s Counting guarantees to remodel how we take into consideration numbers. Opposite to what you discovered in kindergarten, counting is extra artwork than arithmetic. In actual fact, numbers are simply as a lot creatures of the human creativeness as poetry and portray; the best tally begins with judgments about what counts. In a nation whose Structure initially counted a slave as three-fifths of an individual and the place algorithms disproportionately consign Black People to jail, it’s now extra necessary than ever to grasp how numbers will be each weapons of the highly effective and instruments of resistance. Together with her “signature brilliance” (Robert Kuttner), eminent political scientist Deborah Stone delivers a “mild-altering” work (Jacob Hacker) that reveals “how being in thrall to numbers is misguided and harmful” (New York Instances Guide Overview).
ASIN : B085TBWZLQ
Writer : Liveright
Accessibility : Study extra
Publication date : October 6, 2020
Language : English
File dimension : 18.3 MB
Display Reader : Supported
Enhanced typesetting : Enabled
X-Ray : Not Enabled
Phrase Clever : Enabled
Print size : 305 pages
ISBN-13 : 978-1631495939
Web page Flip : Enabled
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Prospects discover the e book well-written with vivid examples. They admire its insights, with one buyer noting the way it helps take into consideration numbers and counting in recent methods.
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