The Tyranny of Metrics

by Jerry Z. Muller

Book Overview

How the obsession with quantifying human performance threatens our schools, medical care, businesses, and government

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691174954
• ISBN13: 9780691174952
• Release Date: February 2018
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.94 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 5.7" x 8.5"