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America by the numbers :quantification, democracy, and the birth of national …
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Didier, Emmanuel,Sen, Priya Vari,

How new techniques of quantification shaped the New Deal and American democracy. When the Great Depression struck, the US government lacked tools to assess the situation; there was no reliable way to gauge the unemployment rate, the number of unemployed, or how many families had abandoned their farms to become migrants. In America by the Numbers , Emmanuel Didier examines the development in the…

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1 online resource (408 pages).
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