David Boyle

The Tyranny of Numbers: Why Counting Can’t Make Us Happy

Книга The Tyranny of Numbers: Why Counting Can’t Make Us Happy из серии , созданная David Boyle, может относится к жанру Экономика, Зарубежная деловая литература. Стоимость электронной книги The Tyranny of Numbers: Why Counting Can’t Make Us Happy с идентификатором 39801337 составляет 1108.21 руб.David Boyle The Tyranny of Numbers: Why Counting Can’t Make Us Happy в жанре Экономика, Зарубежная деловая литература

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Never before have we attempted to measure as much as we do today. Why are we so obsessed with numbers? What can they really tell us?Too often we try to quantify what can’t actually be measured. We count people, but not individuals. We count exam results rather than intelligence, benefit claimants instead of poverty. The government has set itself 10,000 new targets. Politicians pack their speeches with skewed statistics: crime rates are either rising or falling depending on who is doing the counting.We are in a world in which everything designed only to be measured. If it can’t be measured it can be ignored.But the big problem is what numbers don’t tell you. They won’t interpret. They won’t inspire, and they won’t tell you precisely what causes what.In this passionately argued and thought-provoking book, David Boyle examines our obsession with numbers. He reminds us of the danger of taking numbers so seriously at the expense of what is non-measurable, non-calculable: intuition, creativity, imagination, happiness…Counting is a vital human skill. Yardsticks are a vital tool. As long as we remember how limiting they are if we cling to them too closely.Americans who claim to have been abducted by aliens = 3.7 millionAverage time spent by British people in traffic jams every year = 11 daysNumber of Americans shot by children under six between 1983 and 1993 = 138, 490

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Funny Money: In Search of Alternative Cash

Книга Funny Money: In Search of Alternative Cash из серии , созданная David Boyle, может относится к жанру Зарубежная деловая литература. Стоимость электронной книги Funny Money: In Search of Alternative Cash с идентификатором 39765425 составляет 120.84 руб.David Boyle Funny Money: In Search of Alternative Cash в жанре Зарубежная деловая литература

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Only our limited idea of money is keeping us poor. David Boyle introduces us to alternative cash and people who can conjure money – that is, spending power – out of nothing.Until recently, the growth of alternative cash had been the province of big business: phone cards, stamps, air miles and Tesco’s clubcard points all have purchasing power, yet are not cash as we know it. Now, locally created money systems like ‘time dollars’, ‘Womanshare’ and ‘Ithaca hours’ are being invented by communities for communities.With clarity and great humour, Boyle tells the story of this extraordinary revolution: he travels to the USA to visit the people behind local money systems; relates their vision of the future; and describes how to set up your own currency. This is no dry theoretical tome: Boyle writes about his subject in a way that is concrete, illuminating, often very funny and always highly readable.This paperback edition includes a new epilogue with an update on the latest alternative currency ideas: ‘You just have to cast doubt on the real existence of the money markets and they could just shrivel away. Anything could happen.’A revolution is underway now: this book tells the story of its leaders and the ideas that inspired them.

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Broke: Who Killed the Middle Classes?

Книга Broke: Who Killed the Middle Classes? из серии , созданная David Boyle, может относится к жанру Социология. Стоимость книги Broke: Who Killed the Middle Classes?  с идентификатором 39764041 составляет 548.84 руб.David Boyle   Broke: Who Killed the Middle Classes? в жанре Социология

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