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The Social Sciences of Quantification: From Politics of Large Numbers to Target-Driven Policies

The Social Sciences of Quantification: From Politics of Large Numbers to Target-Driven Policies

Bruno, Isabelle
Jany-Catrice, Florence
Touchelay, Béatrice

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Series: Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning, Book 13

PhilosophyGeneral Sociology

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ISBN10: 3319439995
ISBN13: 9783319439990
Publisher: Springer Nature
Published: Oct 10 2016
Pages: 204
Weight: 1.07
Height: 0.56 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English
PART 1: Sociology of Quantification: Alain Desrosières's contributions Chapter 1. Introduction to the work of Alain Desrosières: the history and sociology of quantification; Michel Armatte.- Chapter 2. Alain Desrosières's reflexive numbers Luc Boltanski.- Chapter 3. Alain Desrosières's spectacles: one lens realist, the other constructivist; Emmanuel Didier.- Chapter 4. From statistics to international quantification: a dialogue with Alain Desrosières; Roser Cussó.- Chapter 5. Learning from the history of the probabilistic revolution: the French school of Alain Desrosières; Fabrice Bardet PART 2. THE STATISTICAL ARGUMENT IN THE NEOLIBERAL ERA CHAPTER 6. Quantifying the effects of public action on the unemployed: disputes between experts and the rethinking of labour market policies in France (1980‐2000); Etienne Penissat.- CHAPTER 7. Counting the homeless in Europe: 'compare before harmonising'; Cécile Brousse.- CHAPTER 8. The statistical backbone of the new European economic governance: the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure Scoreboard; Gilles Raveaud.- CHAPTER 9. Evaluating public policies or measuring the performance of public services?; Florence Jany‐Catrice PART 3: USES OF QUANTIFICATION: POWER AND RESISTANCE CHAPTER 10. Private accounting, statistics and national accounting in France: a unique relationship (1920‐1960s); Béatrice Touchelay.- CHAPTER 11: Figures for what purposes? The issues at stake in the struggles to define and control the uses of statistics; Marion Gilles.- CHAPTER 12: The uses of quantification: power and resistance. The example of unemployment statistics.- Chapter 13: Statistical argument: construction, uses and controversies Prices and purchasing power; Alain Gély.- CHAPTER 14: The quantification of the social sciences: an historical comparison; Alain Desrosières.

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