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How do you "mathematize" a human being in a prison-as-industrial-system?

State of Play (2009), Oldboy (2003) Steven Barnes 2009

We are well aware of the alphabet soup of acronyms, including CDOs and CLOs, that contributed to the crisis, along with an excessive degree of faith in the ability of complex statistical models to mathematize risk taking.

Richard Fisher, Top Fed Official: Too Big To Fail Lives On, Only Way Out Is To Shrink Megabanks 2010

Modern economics has divorced much of itself from this aspect, trying to mathematize itself, creating models that, if I'm not mistaken, are not very predictive and questionably descriptive.

Galbraith vs. the Internet, Arnold Kling | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty 2009

On the other hand, he will mathematize the Platonic subtraction of being from appearance.

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On the other hand, he will mathematize the Platonic subtraction of being from appearance.

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Bernoulli explored a way to mathematize probably arguments by seeing them as analogous to a game of chance.

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Bernoulli explored a way to mathematize probably arguments by seeing them as analogous to a game of chance.

Bernoullian Combination 2005

MacArthur happened to be a very, very smart guy who came along at the right time, but the yearning to mathematize ecology was already in the air.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

MacArthur happened to be a very, very smart guy who came along at the right time, but the yearning to mathematize ecology was already in the air.

The Song of The Dodo David Quammen 2004

Paradoxically a more extreme idea than that of Charron, viz., to mathematize ethics leaving aside the idea of end, seemed to insinuate itself even in

Dictionary of the History of Ideas ENRICO DE ANGELIS 1968