Zed Books | 2014 | 281 páginas | rar - pdf | Mb
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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? By what processes are they created? 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.
Contents
acknowledgements vi
introduction The politics of statistics 1
chapter 1 The power of numbers 10
chapter 2 New global rulers: the untameable power of credit rating 39
chapter 3 Fiddling while the planet burns: the marketization of climate change 68
chapter 4 Measuring the unmeasurable: the financialization of nature 104
chapter 5 Numbers for good? The quest for aid effectiveness and social impact 144
conclusion Rethinking numbers, rethinking governance 192
notes 214
bibliography 246
index 261
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