How we Decide

"Deborah Stone's mind-altering insight is that the numbers we use to capture the human experience are themselves a form of creative story-telling. They shouldn't end the conversation, but spark a deeper and richer one. Counting deserves five stars for showing why five stars can never tell the whole story." —Jacob S. Hacker, co-author of Let Them Eat Tweets: How the Right Rules in an Age of Extreme Inequality