David Boyle. The Sum of Our Discontent: Why Numbers Make Us Irrational. New York: Texere, 2001, 200 pages, $24.95.

Reviewed by Michael J. Zickar, Assistant Professor of Psychology, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH.

It is always fun to attack an intellectual position so indefensible that only the most rigid dogmatists would defend it. David Boyle has found such a topic in this self-described polemic against the pervasive and pernicious influence of quantification in modern society. Throughout this short read, Boyle presents examples from different disciplines to demonstrate ...

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