The Politics of Modelling: Numbers Between Science and Policy - Hardcover

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0198872410 ISBN 13: 9780198872412

Publisher: Oxford University Press, 2023

Synopsis

Adopting a multidisciplinary approach, this edited volume brings together a diverse range of contributions to look beyond the strictly mathematical view of modelling and instead examine the social nature of models, their biases and responsibilities.

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About the Author

Andrea Saltelli, Academic Counsellor, Universitat Pompeu Fabra (UPF), Barcelona School of Management, Monica Di Fiore, Researcher, National Research Council of Italy, Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies

Andrea Saltelli is based at Pompeu Fabra University in Barcelona. His most recent papers have tackled sensitivity analysis and auditing, the ecological footprint, the future of statistics, the rationale of evidence-based policy, the crisis of science and the post-truth discussion. Andrea gives courses in sensitivity analysis, sensitivity auditing, science integrity, and the ethics of quantification. He has recently published on the role of science in processes of regulatory capture.


Monica Di Fiore is a researcher at the Institute for Cognitive Sciences and Technologies of the Italian National Research Council (CNR) of Rome. She has dealt with innovation and social acceptance of technologies.
Her most recent work focuses on open science and responsible research and innovation, the reproducibility crisis, science-based normative capture, and the sociology and ethics of quantification. She recently contributed to a manifesto published by Nature on the quality of mathematical models.

Edition details

• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication date: 2023
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0198872410
• ISBN 13: 9780198872412
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 272
• Editor: Saltelli Andrea, Di Fiore Monica