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Index
Cover
Title Page
Copyright Page
Contents
Introduction: The Changing Fates of the Numerical
Part I
1. Numbers without Experts: The Populist Politics of Quantification
2. The Role of the Numerical in the Decline of Expertise
Part II
3. Audit Narratives: Making Higher Education Manageable in Learning Assessment Discourse
4. The Limits of “The Limits of the Numerical”: Rare Diseases and the Seductions of Qualification
5. Reading Numbers: Literature, Case Histories, and Quantitative Analysis
Part III
6. Why Five Fruit and Veg a Day? Communicating, Deceiving, and Manipulating with Numbers
7. Are Numbers Really as Bad as They Seem? A Political Philosophy Perspective
Part IV
8. When Well-Being Becomes a Number
9. Aligning Social Goals and Scientific Numbers: An Ethical-Epistemic Analysis of Extreme Weather Attribution
10. The Purposes and Provisioning of Higher Education: Can Economics and Humanities Perspectives Be Reconciled?
Acknowledgments
References
Contributors
Index
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