America by the Numbers: Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics by Emmanuel Didier

America by the Numbers: Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics

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Emmanuel Didier with Priya Vari Sen (Translator)

432 pages • missing pub info (editions)

nonfiction history sociology
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How new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy.When the Great Depression struck, the US government lacked tools to assess the situation; there was no reliable way to gauge the unemployment rate, the number of unemp...

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