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Quantifying the world: UN ideas and statistics

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List of Boxes, Tables, Charts, and Figures Foreword Louis Emmerij, Richard Jolly, and Thomas G. Weiss Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Prologue 1. Ideas and Statistics: An Introduction 2. The Economic Dimension 3. The Social Dimension 4. The Environmental Dimension 5. Other Statistical Dimensions Epilogue: Success, Missed Opportunities, and the Continuing Agenda in Statistics Appendix: ILO Special Topics Notes Index About the Author About the UN Intellectual History Project

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Key concepts: Prologue, Dimension (graph theory), Index (typography), Economic statistics, Social statistics, Statistics, History, Sociology