Jerry Z. Muller: Tyranny of Metrics (2018, Princeton University Press)
240 pages
English language
Published Aug. 9, 2018 by Princeton University Press.
Good points made well but slower going than I'd like
Good points made well but slower going than I'd like
The topic is important. It is addressed rather well and covers pretty much what everyone working on those sectors has experienced. But this book could also have been written in the 1980s. There are a lot of books written in the same critical vein that take into account the rise of algorithms as part of the same processes (see Cathy O'Neill, obviously, but others as well).
But again, those of us who have experienced those developments will appreciate their treatment here.
The topic is important. It is addressed rather well and covers pretty much what everyone working on those sectors has experienced. But this book could also have been written in the 1980s. There are a lot of books written in the same critical vein that take into account the rise of algorithms as part of the same processes (see Cathy O'Neill, obviously, but others as well).
But again, those of us who have experienced those developments will appreciate their treatment here.
