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America by the numbers : quantification, democracy, and the birth of national statistics /

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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 unemployed, or how many families had abandoned their farm...

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Main Author: Didier, Emmanuel (Author)
Other Authors: Sen, Priya Vari (Translator)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Cambridge : The MIT Press, [2020]
Series:Infrastructures
Subjects:
New Deal, 1933-1939.
United States > Economic conditions > 1918-1945.
Depressions > 1929 > United States.
Agricultural surveys > United States > History > 1919-1933.
United States. > Bureau of Agricultural Economics > Officials and employees.
United States. > Bureau of Labor Statistics > Officials and employees.
United States. > Bureau of the Census > Officials and employees.
Statisticians > United States > Biography.
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