Quantifying the World : Un Ideas and Statistics

List of Boxes and Tables vii Foreword xi Louis Emmerij Richard Jolly Thomas G. Weiss Acknowledgments xiii List of Abbreviations xvii Prologue 1(22) Ideas and Statistics: An Introduction 23(40) The Economic Dimension 63(77) The Social Dimension 140(64) The Environmental Dimension 204(23) Other Statistical Dimensions 227(33) Epilogue: Success, Missed Opportunities, and the Continuing Agenda in Statistics 260(13) Appendix: ILO Special Topics 273(8) Notes 281(30) Index 311(16) About the Author 327(2) About the UN Intellectual History Project 329