The Politics of Large Numbers: a History of Statistical Reasoning

By Jozef L. Teugels. 2003

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Voicing concern and difference: from public spaces to common-places (2014, unknown): “The link between states and statistics (Desrosières, 1998/1993) can be viewed in a larger perspective on the ‘ politics of statistics ’ (Thévenot, 1990a).”
The conundrum of police officer-involved homicides: Counter-data in Los Angeles County (2016, background): “Scholars of critical data scholars, rather, set out to expose ‘‘the double role of statistics in representing as well as criticizing reality’’ (Desrosières and Naish, 2002).”
Indicators as a Technology of Global Governance (2010, background): “A second starting point is theoretical writings on quantification and indicators as social phenomena, both general works (Desrosières 1998; Espeland & Sauder 2007; Espeland & Stevens 2008; Hacking 1990; Porter 1995; Saetnan et al. 2011) and a small but growing body of studies relating to specific…”
‘Feeding 9 billion people’: global food security debates and the productionist trap (2017, background): “These can directly influence the problematization of issues through the aspects of the situation that are highlighted or concealed (Desrosières 1998; Ilcan and Phillips 2003; Lascoumes and Le Gales 2007).”
Governing by numbers: the PISA ‘effect’ in Europe (2009, background): “The nation constituted as a ‘space of equivalence’ is necessary to the construction of statistics (Desrosières 1998), but statistics and numbers which elide the local are equally important to the construction, in this case, of a commensurable education policy field.”
Tracking the numbers: Across accounting and finance, organizations and markets (2009, background): “…(see e.g. Mennicken & Vollmer, 2007) to include not only different forms of economic calculation, but also forms of statistical reasoning (e.g. Desrosières, 2002; Hacking, 1984; Porter, 1986; MacKenzie 1978), mathematical (Heintz, 2003; MacKenzie, 1999) and everyday (Lave 1988) calculative…”
Peripheral Vision (2005, unknown): “As shown by the history of statistical devices, essays in aggregation are often a political matter (e.g. Desrosières 1998; Didier 2002).”
Cents and Sensibility: Economic Valuation and the Nature of “Nature” (2011, unknown): “…the same way that for Marx ([1887] 1990, pp. 163–77), the money value of “abstract labor” masked a wide range of sociohistorical conditions, the price of an abstracted nature actually stands for a broad variety of sociohistorical experiences with particular natural sites, landscapes, or wildlife.”
How real are statistics? Four possible attitudes (2001, background): “iThe issue of the realism of statistical production is discussed in greater detail in Desrosieres (1998).”
Introduction: Understanding Public Policy through Its Instruments—From the Nature of Instruments to the Sociology of Public Policy Instrumentation (2007, methodology): “Desrosières (2002) has clearly shown that during the eighteenth century, the chief activity of statistics was more taxonomic than quantifying: the ambition to count was preceded by a focus on descriptive categories. Another example is the construction of indexes (of prices, unemployment rates, educa”
Standardization as Institutional Work: The Regulatory Power of a Responsible Investment Standard (2012, background): “The efforts involved in standardizing and making things the ‘same’ is often underestimated (Desrosières, 1998; Porter, 1995), and simply treated as if flowing automatically from the process of standard setting.”
The ethics of smart cities and urban science (2016, background): “fully representative of that which is being measured (they faithfully capture its essence and are independent of the measuring process) [22].”