Businesses seeing like a state, governments calculating like a businessFootnote^*

* Manuscript for International Journal of Qualitative Studies in Education, entitled “Practicing Reforms: Performative approaches to education reforms”, edited by K. Brógger, D. Staunaes, J. B. Krejsler.

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