Begins with study of history of statistics, and shows how the evolution of modern statistics has been inextricably bound up with the knowledge and power of gove

French government officials have long been known among Europeans for the special attention they give to the state of their population. In the first half of the

The Politics of Numbers is the first major study of the social and political forces behind the nation's statistics. In more than a dozen essays, its editors and

A foundational work on historical and social studies of quantification What accounts for the prestige of quantitative methods? The usual answer is that quantifi

"How much does it cost?" We think of this question as one that preoccupies the nation's shoppers, not its statesmen. But, as Pocketbook Politics dramatically sh