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Counting: How We Use Numbers to Decide What Matters Garden design & planning People may enjoy thinking aboutEarly in her extraordinary career, Deborah Stone wrote Policy Paradox, a landmark work on politics. Now, in Counting, she revolutionizes how we approach numbers and shows how counting shapes the way we see the world. Most of us think of counting as a skill so basic that we see numbers as objective, indisputable facts. Not so, says Stone. In this playful yet probing work, Stone reveals the inescapable link between quantifying and classifying, and