Lawrence Busch’s book receives great review in Wall Street Journal

January 19, 2012

Wall Street Journal book reviewer, Evgeny Morozov says, "Lawrence Busch, a sociologist at Michigan State University, has produced a stimulating account of how and why we create standards. "Standards: Recipes for Reality" is not a technical study of particular standards but an eclectic, philosophical attempt to examine how standards 'are used, spoken of, employed, designed, put into common practice.' Mr. Busch's goal is ambitious, for the very term "standards" covers a lot of conceptual territory. It can propose an exemplary measure (e.g., a second as calculated by the atomic clock), emphasize moral character (standards of decorum) or indicate an average (normal weight or height)". (see full review here)