LEADER 06240nam 22007693u 450 001 9910503007403321 005 20231110233506.0 010 $a3-030-78201-8 035 $a(CKB)5140000000013042 035 $aEBL6749218 035 $a(OCoLC)1313888019 035 $a(AU-PeEL)EBL6749218 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6749218 035 $a(oapen)https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/72276 035 $a(EXLCZ)995140000000013042 100 $a20220617d2021|||| u|| | 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe New Politics of Numbers $eUtopia, Evidence and Democracy 210 $aCham $cSpringer International Publishing AG$d2021 215 $a1 online resource (514 p.) 225 1 $aExecutive Politics and Governance 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-030-78200-X 327 $aIntro -- Foreword: What Numbers Do -- Acknowledgments -- Contents -- Notes on Contributors -- List of Figures -- List of Tables -- 1 The New Politics of Numbers: An Introduction -- Quantification as Utopia -- The Politics of Evidence -- Voicing for Democracy -- Quantification: Where the Economics of Convention Approach Meets Foucault -- References -- Part I Quantification as Utopia -- 2 Creating a Socialist Society and Quantification in the USSR -- Inventing a New Form of Statistics for a New Model of Society -- A New State Statistics Administration 327 $aA Complicated Demarcation Between Accounting and Statistics -- A Task of Theoretical Deconstruction -- Debates and Tensions Surrounding Statistical Theory -- Tension Surrounding the Mean and the Law of Large Numbers -- Tensions Around the Shift to the Random Model -- What Form of Statistics for Constructing a New Order? -- The Relationship Between Statistics and Accounting -- Categorization of the Population and Censuses -- Confidence in the Data and the Status of the Statistician -- What Statistical Tools for a New Order? -- Conclusion -- References 327 $a3 The People's Algorithms: Social Credits and the Rise of China's Big (Br)other -- The Earlier Chinese Dream -- Personal Dossiers -- Social Credit -- The Total Information System -- The Future Now -- Bigger Than Big Other -- References -- 4 Accounting for Who We Are and Could Be: Inventing Taxonomies of the Self in an Age of Uncertainty -- Corporeal Accounting Within Immaterial Capitalism -- Calculation and the Living Body -- The Quantified Self -- Well-Being, Performance and Emotions as Core Issues of Leibschreiben (Writing the Body) -- The Emerging Taxonomies of the Self 327 $aInventing Representational Forms -- Moral Conflicts in Quantifying the Self -- Quantifying Performance: Alternative Measures, Rational Planning and the Deficiency of Corporeal Sensations -- Conclusions -- References -- 5 Quantifying Inequality: From Contentious Politics to the Dream of an Indifferent Power -- Words: The Semantics of Poverty and the Syntax of the Threshold -- Shifting Words -- Moralization -- The Threshold -- Visibility and Obfuscation -- Spatial Choreographies: From Inequality to Distance -- Numbers: Measuring Inequality -- Conclusions: The Dream of an Indifferent Power 327 $aReferences -- Part II The Politics of Evidence -- 6 Homo Statisticus: A History of France's General Public Statistical Infrastructure on Population Since 1950 -- The Representative Household Survey -- The Biographical Investigation -- The Matched Panels -- Homo Statisticus: Three Types of Being Constructed by the Statistical Infrastructure -- Conclusion -- References -- 7 A New Calculable Global World in the Making: Governing Through Transnational Certification Standards -- Introduction: The Evolving Politics of Calculable Worlds 327 $aFrom State Statistics to Government Through Standards: A Research Programme on the Politics of Conventional Forms and Engagements 330 $aThis 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 plurality of possible ways in which numbers have come to govern, highlighting not only their disciplinary effects, but also the collective mobilization capacities quantification can offer. 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