The Tyranny of Metrics

ISBN-13: 9780691174952 / Angielski / Twarda / 2018 / 240 str.

Jerry Z. Muller

Opis

How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and governmentToday, organizations of all kinds are ruled by the belief that the path to success is quantifying human performance, publicizing the results, and dividing up the rewards based on the numbers. But in our zeal to instill the evaluat

Recenzje

"For every quantification, there's a way of gaming it. So argues this timely manifesto against measured accountability."--Kirkus Reviews

O autorze

Jerry Z. Muller is the author of many books, including The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought (Knopf), Adam Smith in His Time and Ours (Princeton), and Capitalism and the Jews (Princeton). His writing has appeared in the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal, the Times Literary Supplement, and Foreign Affairs, among other publications. He is professor of history at the Catholic University of America in Washington, D.C., and lives in Silver Spring, Maryland.