The New Politics of Numbers
Utopia, Evidence and Democracy
This open access book offers unique insight into how and where ideas and instruments of quantification have been adopted, and how they have come to matter. Rather than asking what quantification is, New Politics of Numbers explores what quantification does, its manifold consequences in multiple domains. It scrutinizes the power of numbers in terms of the changing relations between numbers and democracy, the politics of evidence, and dreams and schemes of bettering society. The book engages Foucault inspired studies of quantification and the economics of convention in a critical dialogue. In so doing, it provides a rich account of the pluralit…
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Weitere Autoren: Mennicken, Andrea (Hrsg.)
- ISBN: 978-3-030-78203-0
- EAN: 9783030782030
- Produktnummer: 37749202
- Verlag: Springer International Publishing
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 528 S.
- Masse: H21.0 cm x B14.8 cm x D2.8 cm 675 g
- Auflage: 1st ed. 2022
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 675
Über den Autor
Andrea Mennicken is Associate Professor of Accounting at the London School of Economics and Political Science, UK, and Co-Director of the Centre for Analysis of Risk and Regulation (LSE), UK. In 2013-2014 she was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany.Robert Salais is Associate Researcher at the Ecole Normale Supérieure de Paris-Saclay, France, and member of the Institutions and Historical Dynamics of the Economy and Society (IDHES) Centre, France. He was a Fellow of the Wissenschaftskolleg zu Berlin, Germany, in 2005-2006 and of the Nantes Institute of Advanced Studies, France, in 2011-2012
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