{"product_id":"9780253110848","title":"Quantifying the World: UN Ideas and Statistics","description":"\u003cp\u003eGood data, Michael Ward argues, serve to enhance a perception about life\u003cbr\u003e as well as to deepen an understanding of reality. This history of the UN's role in\u003cbr\u003e fostering international statistics in the postwar period demonstrates how statistics\u003cbr\u003e have shaped our understanding of the world. Drawing on well over 40 years of\u003cbr\u003e experience working as a statistician and economist in more than two dozen countries\u003cbr\u003e around the world, Ward traces the evolution of statistical ideas and how they have\u003cbr\u003e responded to the needs of policy while unraveling the question of why certain data\u003cbr\u003e were considered important and why other data and concerns were not. The book\u003cbr\u003e explores the economic, social, and environmental dimensions of the UN's statistical\u003cbr\u003e work and how each dimension has provided opportunities for describing the well-being\u003cbr\u003e of the world community. Quantifying the World also reveals some of the missed\u003cbr\u003e opportunities for pursuing alternative models.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47101206659312,"sku":"9780253110848","price":23.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780253110848_p0.jpg?v=1763681036","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253110848","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}