In this book, political scientists, anthropologists, sociologists, and policy analysts critically examine the murky origins of misleading or inaccurate statistics used in global policy and traces their remarkable proliferation.

Peter Andreas is Associate Professor of Political Science and International Studies at Brown University. His books include edition, and Blue Helmets and Black Markets: The Business of Survival in the Siege of Sarajevo, both from Cornell. Kelly M. Greenhill is Assistant Professor of Government at Tufts University and a Research Fellow at the Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs at Harvard University. She is author of Weapons of Mass Migration: Forced Displacement, Coercion, and Foreign Policy, also from Cornell.