Tyranny of Metrics
(Sprache: Englisch)
Today, 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 evaluation process with scientific...
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Today, 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 evaluation process with scientific rigor, we've gone from measuring performance to fixating on measuring itself The result is a tyranny of metrics that threatens the quality of our lives and most important institutions. In this timely and powerful book, Jerry Muller uncovers the damage our obsession with metrics is causing--and shows how we can begin to fix the problem. Filled with examples from education, medicine, business and finance, government, the police and military, and philanthropy and foreign aid, this brief and accessible book explains why the seemingly irresistible pressure to quantify performance distorts and distracts, whether by encouraging "gaming the stats" or "teaching to the test."
Autoren-Porträt von Jerry Z. Muller
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.
Bibliographische Angaben
- Autor: Jerry Z. Muller
- 2018, 240 Seiten, Maße: 14,4 x 22,3 cm, Gebunden, Englisch
- Verlag: Princeton University Press
- ISBN-10: 0691174954
- ISBN-13: 9780691174952
- Erscheinungsdatum: 09.03.2018
Sprache:
Englisch
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"For every quantification, there's a way of gaming it. So argues this timely manifesto against measured accountability."--Kirkus Reviews
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