Introduction : the changing fates of the numerical / Christopher Newfield, Anna Alexandrova, Stephen John
Expert sources of the revolt againt experts. Numbers without experts : the populist politics of quantification / Elizabeth Chatterjee
The role of the numerical in the decline of expertise / Christopher Newfield
Can narrative fix numbers? Audit narratives : making higher education manageable in learning assessment discourse / Heather Steffen
The limits of "The limits of the numerical" : rare diseases and the seductions of qualification / Trenholme Junghans
Reading numbers : literature, case histories, and quantitative analysis / Laura Mandell
When bad numbers have good social effects. Why five fruit and veg a day? Communicating, deceiving, and manipulating with numbers / Stephen John
Are numbers really as bad as they seem? A political-philosophy perspective / Gabriele Badano
The uses of the numerical for qualitative ends. When well-being becomes a number / Anna Alexandrova and Ramandeep Singh
Aligning social goals and scientific numbers : an ethical-epistemic analysis of extreme weather attribution / Greg Lusk
The purposes and provisioning of higher education : can economics and humanities perspectives be reconciled? / Aashish Mehta and Christopher Newfield.