America by the numbers : quantification, democracy, and the birth of national statistics /
This is a title in the Infrastructures series and it is a translation from the French (it was published in France by la Decouverte in 2009). It is a look at the infancy of agricultural and labor statistics in the United States in the 1920s and 1930s. On the face of it, this seems like a dry topic, b...
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Cambridge, Massachusetts :
MIT Press,
[2020].
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: America's Reflexivity
- Part 1: The Decomposition of America
- The America of the Reporters
- The Decomposition of Links Between Statistics and Politics
- Part 2: Expression of Random America: On the Rural Front
- From the Political Representative to Statistical Representativeness
- Probable Error
- The Administration and University
- Areal America
- Part 3: Expression of Random America: On the Urban Front
- The Paradoxical Decomposition of Unemployment
- How to Transform the Victims of the Depression into Enumerators?
- From Participationism to a Government of the Masses.