{ "item_title" : "The Social Sciences of Quantification", "item_author" : [" Isabelle Bruno", "Florence Jany-Catrice", "Béatrice Touchelay "], "item_description" : "PART 1: Sociology of Quantification: Alain Desrosi res's contributions Chapter 1. Introduction to the work of Alain Desrosi res: the history and sociology of quantification; Michel Armatte.- Chapter 2. Alain Desrosi res's reflexive numbers Luc Boltanski.- Chapter 3. Alain Desrosi res's spectacles: one lens realist, the other constructivist; Emmanuel Didier.- Chapter 4. From statistics to international quantification: a dialogue with Alain Desrosi res; Roser Cuss .- Chapter 5. Learning from the history of the probabilistic revolution: the French school of Alain Desrosi res; 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'; C cile 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); B atrice 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 G ly.- CHAPTER 14: The quantification of the social sciences: an historical comparison; Alain Desrosi res.", "item_img_path" : "https://covers3.booksamillion.com/covers/bam/3/31/982/956/3319829564_b.jpg", "price_data" : { "retail_price" : "129.99", "online_price" : "129.99", "our_price" : "129.99", "club_price" : "129.99", "savings_pct" : "0", "savings_amt" : "0.00", "club_savings_pct" : "0", "club_savings_amt" : "0.00", "discount_pct" : "10", "store_price" : "" } }

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