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Includes bibliographical references and index.

Foreword: Mathematically modelling as a critical cultural enterprise / Wendy Espeland -- Preface: The sciences of modelling through / Dan Sarewitz -- Introduction / Monica Di Fiore and Andrea Saltelli -- Pay no attention to the model behind the curtain / Philip Stark -- Mind the framing: Match purpose and context / Monica Di Fiore, Marta Kuc-Czarnecka, Samuele Lo Piano, Arnald Puy, and Andrea Saltelli -- Mind the hubris: Complexity can misfire / Arnald Puy and Andrea Saltelli -- Mind the assumptions: Quantify uncertainty and assess sensitivity / Emanuele Borgonovo -- Mind the consequences: Quantification in economic and public policy / Wolfgang Drechsler and Lukas Fuchs -- Mind the unknowns: Exploring the politics of ignorance in mathematical models / Andy Stirling -- Sensitivity auditing: A practical checklist for auditing decision-relevant models / Samuele Lo Piano, Razi Sheikholeslami, Arnald Puy, and Andrea Saltelli -- Mathematical modelling: Lessons from composite indicators / Marta Kuc-Czarnecka and Andrea Saltelli -- Mathematical modelling, rulemaking, and the COVID-19 pandemic / Ting Xu -- In the twilight of probability: COVID-19 and the dilemma of the decision-maker / Paolo Vineis and Luca Savarino -- Models as metaphors / Jerome R. Ravetz -- Epilogue: Those special models: A political economy of mathematical modelling / Andrea Saltelli and Monica Di Fiore.

"Climate change and COVID-19 have brought mathematical models into the forefront of politics and decision-making, where they are now being used to justify momentous and often controversial decisions. Such models are technically very complex, and sources of political authority. Yet disagreement among experts fuels a growing uneasiness about the quality and significance of the numbers that models produce. This multidisciplinary volume takes a critical look at the intersections of the technical and the political aspects of models. Our goal is to help unravel the meanings and implications of models in the real world, for readers that include decision makers, policy analysts, journalists, scholars … and even modellers"--Publisher's description.