Jerry Z. Muller
The Tyranny of Metrics
Princeton UP, 2018
¿De qué se trata?
Numbers and measurements aren’t substitutes for personal experience and sound judgment.
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Professor Jerry Z. Muller says today’s society has a “metric fixation” – an obsession with measuring, ostensibly to fuel improvements and publicize the results of their tallies in the name of transparency and accountability. Muller exposes how metrics can mislead and distort, and he details how education, health care, law enforcement, the military, business, finance and nonprofit entities use metrics improperly. Muller makes a compelling case for why you shouldn’t substitute measurement for personal experience or sound judgment. getAbstract recommends his practical insights to executives, policy experts and organization leaders trying to escape the metrics trap.
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About the Author
Jerry Z. Muller is an author, journalist and professor of history at the Catholic University of America in Washington, DC. His books include The Mind and the Market: Capitalism in Modern European Thought and Adam Smith in His Time and Ours.
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