HOW NUMBERS RULE THE WORLD:THE USE AND ABUSE OF STATISTICS IN GLOBAL POLITICS
Book ID/图书代码： 14782014B67315
English Summary/英文概要： Numbers dominate global politics and, as a result, our everyday lives. Credit ratings steer financial markets and can make or break the future of entire nations. GDP drives our economies. Stock market indices flood our media and national debates. Statistical calculations define how we deal with climate change, poverty and sustainability. But what is behind these numbers?
In How Numbers Rule the World, Lorenzo Fioramonti reveals the hidden agendas underpinning the use of statistics and those who control them. Most worryingly, he shows how numbers have been used as a means to reinforce the grip of markets on our social and political life, curtailing public participation and rational debate.
An innovative and timely exposé of the politics, power and contestation of numbers.
Chinese Summary/中文概要： 众所周知，数字“主宰”着风云变幻的全球政治, 因此，它与我们的日常生活息息相关。信用评级引领着全球金融市场的走向, 甚至可以铸造或者摧毁一个国家的未来。国内生产总值(GDP)推动着我们的经济发展。牵动着无数股民神经的股指数据随时可以见诸报端并且成为人们茶余饭后的热议话题。统计学方面的数据分析决定着我们如何应对全球气候变化、贫困问题、经济可持续性发展等焦点问题。但是，这些数据的背后是什么呢? 又有哪些问题需要引起我们的重视呢?
在这本书中，作者Lorenzo Fioramonti教授以其独到的见解，为我们揭示了统计学背后不为人知的隐秘操作以及那些操控它们的人和机构。最令人担忧的是, 他为我们展现了一个事实：作为一种强化市场的手段，数据分析在我们的社会政治生活中是如何减少公众参与度以及影响人们对于全球局势的判断力。
本书以颇具洞察力的眼光和辩证性的观点，为我们呈现了数据中所蕴含的政治学、势力和纷争。(Susie)
Awards/获奖情况：“Fioramonti教授为我们分析了一个事实：我们的政府过度依赖具有误导性的统计数据，这会给我们的市场经济带来很多不利的影响并且阻碍我们对于世界经济形势的正确分析。在所有相关的书籍中，这是我最喜欢的一本书，因为它颇具信服力，并且发人深省。”——畅销书《数字王国》的作者David Boyle’Lorenzo Fioramonti has written an urgent and highly accessible book, showing just how over-reliant our governance systems are on misleading numbers, which support market power and blur our understanding of the world. And it is also a better and more compelling read than exactly 95.4% of all other important books!’ - David Boyle, author of The Tyranny of Numbers ’This book is a thoughtful political economic analysis of how our fates have come to be determined by a few numbers, and how these numbers have been shaped by a few people. If we want a vibrant and responsive politics, we’ll need to know where it has been enclosed by the world’s powerful accountants. Fioramonti’s book provides an excellent map.’ - Raj Patel, author of The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy ’Timely and original, scholarly without ostentation, often scathing, Lorenzo Fioramonti’s field guide to the prejudices, assumptions, financial interests and ideology that lurk behind the most innocent-seeming numbers equips us to challenge their spurious authority. Faith in numbers has helped to wreck the financial system, masked fraud and criminal activity, allowed the world’s richest people to meddle in the "development" of societies they know nothing about and could lead us to damage our earthly habitat beyond recall. If you want to learn what numbers reveal and conceal; what can and, above all, can’t be measured, don’t trust the "experts" - read How Numbers Rule the World and become an expert yourself.’ - Susan George, author of Whose Crisis, Whose Future? and President of the Board, Transnational Institute
About the Author/作者介绍： LORENZO FIORAMONTI是南非比勒陀利亚大学区域经济管理与一体化专业的副教授。同时，他还是欧洲几所著名大学的经济学客座教授。他编写了多本经济学方面的著作，受到读者的一致好评。您可以点击www.globalreboot.org来访问他的博客。Lorenzo Fioramonti (@globalreboot) is associate professor and Jean Monnet chair in regional integration and governance studies at the University of Pretoria, South Africa, where he directs the Centre for the Study of Governance Innovation. He is also senior fellow at the Centre for Social Investment of the University of Heidelberg and at the Hertie School of Governance, Germany, as well as associate fellow at the United Nations University. He is the author of several books about development policies, global and regional governance, alternative economies and social progress indicators, including Gross Domestic Problem: The Politics Behind the World’s Most Powerful Number (Zed Books, 2013). He blogs at www.globalreboot.org.
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