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The storyteller and the statistician or Recession? Already?
Author(s) -
Blastland Michael
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
significance
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.123
H-Index - 21
eISSN - 1740-9713
pISSN - 1740-9705
DOI - 10.1111/j.1740-9713.2008.00309.x
Subject(s) - statistician , recession , tragedy (event) , statistic , history , keynesian economics , art , economics , literature , statistics , mathematics
One death is a tragedy, said Stalin; a million deaths is a statistic. Our minds see the individual and the mass very differently, says Michael Blastland. Is this why journalists are telling us, against the evidence, that we are already in recession?