Historical Census

The Brian Lehrer Show | May 14, 2020

Andrew Whitby, data scientist and author of The Sum of the People: How the Census Has Shaped Nations, from the Ancient World to the Modern Age (Basic Books, 2020), breaks down the three-thousand-year history of the census and traces the making of the modern survey and how it impacts political power in the digital age.

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