Logic, Argumentation & Reasoning

PART 1: Sociology of Quantification: Alain Desrosieres's contributions Chapter 1. Introduction to the work of Alain Desrosieres: the history and sociology of quantification; Michel Armatte.- Chapter 2. Alain Desrosieres's reflexive numbers Luc Boltanski.- Chapter 3. Alain Desrosieres's spectacles: one lens realist, the other constructivist; Emmanuel Didier.- Chapter 4. From statistics to international quantification: a dialogue with Alain Desrosieres; Roser Cusso.- Chapter 5. Learning from the history of the probabilistic revolution: the French school of Alain Desrosieres; Fabrice Bardet PART 2. THE STATISTICAL ARGUMENT IN THE NEOLIBERAL ERA CHAPTER 6. Quantifying the effects of public action on the unemployed: disputes between experts and the rethinking of labour market policies in France (1980‐2000); Etienne Penissat.- CHAPTER 7. Counting the homeless in Europe: 'compare before harmonising'; Cecile Brousse.- CHAPTER 8. The statistical backbone of the new European economic governance: the Macroeconomic Imbalance Procedure Scoreboard; Gilles Raveaud.- CHAPTER 9. Evaluating public policies or measuring the performance of public services?; Florence Jany‐Catrice PART 3: USES OF QUANTIFICATION: POWER AND RESISTANCE CHAPTER 10. Private accounting, statistics and national accounting in France: a unique relationship (1920‐1960s); Beatrice Touchelay.- CHAPTER 11: Figures for what purposes? The issues at stake in the struggles to define and control the uses of statistics; Marion Gilles.- CHAPTER 12: The uses of quantification: power and resistance. The example of unemployment statistics.- Chapter 13: Statistical argument: construction, uses and controversies Prices and purchasing power; Alain Gely.- CHAPTER 14: The quantification of the social sciences: an historical comparison; Alain Desrosieres.