The uncounted / Alex Cobham.
By: Cobham, Alex [author.]
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Publisher: Cambridge, UK ; Medford, MA, USA : Polity, 2020Description: xii, 227 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm.Content type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9781509536016; 9781509536023.Subject(s): Equality | Population -- Statistical methods | Social sciences -- Statistical methods | Social indicators| Item type | Current library | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode | |
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City Campus Library Level 4 Lending | 305 COB (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 3230255758 |
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Development's data problem -- The 'data revolution' -- We the people : but only some of them -- The rise of tax justice -- Understates -- I provide secrecy, you're corrupt : the making of SDF 16 -- False profits and uncounted capital (with Petr Jansky).
"What we count matters, and in a world where policies and decisions are underpinned by numbers, statistics and data, if you're not counted, you don't count. In this book, Alex Cobham argues that systematic gaps in economic and demographic data not only lead us to understate a wide range of damaging inequalities, but also to actively exacerbate them"-- Provided by publisher.
