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Quantification and the economics of convention
Quantifizierung und die economie des conventions
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Abstract "Analyzing social processes of quantification has close relationship with the origins, core and potentialities of the economics of convention. Quantification and its social organization and goals are now impacted by the turn toward the market for organizing all human activities. Research should focu... view more
"Analyzing social processes of quantification has close relationship with the origins, core and potentialities of the economics of convention. Quantification and its social organization and goals are now impacted by the turn toward the market for organizing all human activities. Research should focus on the relationship between generalizing the market, transforming the state and changing the rote and status of quantification. Retracing the main outcomes of the seminal works on quantification, this paper highlights the contributions that EC could provide in that field." (author's abstract)... view less
Keywords
national state; governance; quantification; objectivity; market; New Public Management; deliberative democracy
Classification
General Concepts, Major Hypotheses and Major Theories in the Social Sciences
Method
basic research
Document language
English
Publication Year
2012
Page/Pages
p. 55-63
Journal
Historical Social Research, 37 (2012) 4
Issue topic
The "Économie des Conventions"
DOI
https://doi.org/10.12759/hsr.37.2012.4.55-63
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed