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Journal of Cultural Economy Volume 15, 2022 - Issue 1: Finance: tales of experiment and defiance.Guest Editor: Daniel Seabra Lopes, Inês Faria and Sandra Faustino
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The future of consistency

America by the Numbers: Quantification, Democracy, and the Birth of National Statistics, by Emmanuel Didier, translated by Priya Vari Sen, Cambridge, MA, The MIT Press, 2020, 415 pp., $50.00 (paperback), ISBN 978-0-262-53837-4

Emmanuel DidierÉcole Normale Supérieure, ParisCorrespondence[email protected]
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Pages 135-136 | Published online: 19 Nov 2021
 
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"The future of consistency." Journal of Cultural Economy, 15(1), pp. 135–136

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Emmanuel Didier

Emmanuel Didier is a sociologist, full professor (directeur de recherche CNRS) at the Centre Maurice Halbwachs (École Normale Supérieure, Paris), and a member of the Center for the Study of Invention and Social Process (Goldsmiths University of London). In the US, he taught at the University of Chicago and at the University of California at Los Angeles (UCLA). Originally trained as a statistician, he very soon specialized in the social study of statistics as a tool of government and has written several books on the topic.

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