Introduction: The Changing Fates of the NumericalChristopher NewfieldAnna AlexandrovaStephen JohnPART I Expert Sources of the Revolt against Experts1 Numbers without Experts: The Populist Politics of QuantificationElizabeth Chatterjee2 The Role of the Numerical in the Decline of ExpertiseChristopher NewfieldPART II Can Narrative Fix Numbers?3 Audit Narratives: Making Higher Education Manageable in Learning Assessment DiscourseHeather Steffen4 The Limits of "The Limits of the Numerical": Rare Diseases and the Seductions of QualificationTrenholme Junghans5 Reading Numbers: Literature, Case Histories, and Quantitative AnalysisLaura MandellPART III When Bad Numbers Have Good Social Effects6 Why Five Fruit and Veg a Day? Communicating, Deceiving, and Manipulating with NumbersStephen John7 Are Numbers Really as Bad as They Seem? A Political Philosophy PerspectiveGabriele BadanoPART IV The Uses of the Numerical for Qualitative Ends8 When Weil-Being Becomes a NumberAnna AlexandrovaRamandeep Singh9 Aligning Social Goals and Scientific Numbers: An Ethical-Epistemic Analysis of Extreme Weather AttributionGreg Lusk10 The Purposes and Provisioning of Higher Education: Can Economics and Humanities Perspectives Be Reconciled?Aashish MehtaChristopher NewfieldAcknowledgmentsReferencesContributorsIndex