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Metric Mania (nytimes.com)
1 point by phreeza on May 29, 2010 | hide | past | favorite | 1 comment



Sir John Cowperthwaite, the Financial Secretary of Hong Kong for 1961-71, refused to collect all but the most minimal economics statistics to avoid government meddling and felt this helped its economic miracle.




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