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| Dimensions: 9.3'' x 6.28'' |
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| 100 pages |
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AEI Press
(Washington)
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| Publication Date: January 1995 |
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| Paperback |
| ISBN: 084473764X |
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In this wide-ranging study, Nicholas Eberstadt demonstrates that some of the most basic of today's domestic and foreign policies have been buttressed or justified by what turns out to be misanalysis or misuse of available facts and figures. The Tyranny of Numbers not only warns about the ways the statistics are being misused in government policy in the United States and abroad but explains how this process can end up injuring vulnerable groups or distorting the workings of the democratic system.
Nicholas Eberstadt is the Harry Wendt Scholar in Political Economy at AEI.
Table of Contents
Foreword
Acknowledgments
Introduction
Economic and Material Poverty in Modern America
The U.S. Infant Mortality Problem in an International Perspective
Health, Nutrition, and Literacy under Communism
The Decline of Public Health in Eastern Europe, 1965-1985
Demographic Factors in Soviet Power
The CIA's Assessment of the Soviet Economy
Poverty in South Africa
Another Look at the World Food Problem
Investment without Growth, Industrialization without Prosperity
The Debt Bomb and the World's Children
World Population Trends and National Security
Notes
Index
About the Author
Credits
