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America by the Numbers

Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics

America by the Numbers( )
Author: Didier, Emmanuel
Translator: Vari Sen, Priya
Series title:Infrastructures Ser.
ISBN:978-0-262-53837-4
Publication Date:Apr 2020
Publisher:MIT Press
Book Format:Paperback
List Price:USD $50.00
Book Description:

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 unemployed, or how many families had abandoned their farms to become migrants. In America by the Numbers, Emmanuel Didier examines the development in the 1930s of one such tool- representative sampling. Didier describes and analyzes...
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Book Details
Pages:432
Detailed Subjects: History / United States / 20Th Century
Business & Economics / Economic History
Business & Economics / Economic Conditions
Physical Dimensions (W X L X H):7 x 9 x 1.02 Inches
Book Weight:1.8 Pounds



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