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The Social Sciences of Quantification

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    Chapter 1 Introduction. The Social Sciences of Quantification in France: An Overview
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    Chapter 2 Introduction to the work of Alain Desrosières: the history and sociology of quantification
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    Chapter 3 Alain Desrosières’s reflexive numbers
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    Chapter 4 Alain Desrosières’s spectacles: one lens realist, the other constructivist
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    Chapter 5 From statistics to international quantification: a dialogue with Alain Desrosières
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    Chapter 6 Learning from the history of the probabilistic revolution: the French school of Alain Desrosières
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    Chapter 7 Quantifying the effects of public action on the unemployed: disputes between experts and the rethinking of labour market policies in France (1980-2000)
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    Chapter 8 Counting the homeless in Europe: ‘compare before harmonising’
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    Chapter 9 The statistical backbone of the new European economic governance: the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure Scoreboard
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    Chapter 10 Evaluating public policies or measuring the performance of public services?
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    Chapter 11 Private accounting, statistics and national accounting in France: a unique relationship (1920-1960s)
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    Chapter 12 Figures for what purposes? The issues at stake in the struggles to define and control the uses of statistics
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    Chapter 13 The uses of quantification: power and resistance. The example of unemployment statistics
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    Chapter 14 Statistical argument: construction, uses and controversies. Prices and purchasing power
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    Chapter 15 The quantification of the social sciences: an historical comparison
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Title
The Social Sciences of Quantification
Published by
Springer International Publishing, January 2016
DOI 10.1007/978-3-319-44000-2
ISBNs
978-3-31-943999-0, 978-3-31-944000-2
Editors

Isabelle Bruno, Florence Jany-Catrice, Beatrice Touchelay

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Unknown 18 100%

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Readers by professional status Count As %
Student > Ph. D. Student 1 6%
Unknown 17 94%
Readers by discipline Count As %
Social Sciences 1 6%
Unknown 17 94%