The Tyranny of Numbers: Mismeasurement and MisruleAmerican Enterprise Institute, 1995 - 305 pages 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. |
Contents
INTRODUCTION | 1 |
ECONOMIC AND MATERIAL POVERTY IN MODERN | 27 |
Nutritional WellBeing | 35 |
Prosperous Paupers | 41 |
HEALTH NUTRITION AND LITERACY UNDER | 76 |
Literacy | 89 |
DEMOGRAPHIC FACTORS IN SOVIET POWER | 120 |
THE CIAS ASSESSMENT OF THE SOVIET ECONOMY | 136 |
Data Limitations | 170 |
Variability and Instability in the World Food System | 180 |
Exceptions to Global Trends | 189 |
Conclusions | 195 |
THE DEBT BOMB AND THE WORLDS CHILDREN | 212 |
WORLD POPULATION TRENDS AND NATIONAL SECURITY | 239 |
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ABOUT THE AUTHOR | 303 |
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