Statistics and social critique

<span class="abs_content">This paper focuses on the history of the uses of statistics as a tool for socialcritique. Whereas nowadays they are very often conceived as being in the hands of the powerful, there are many historical cases when they were, on the contrary, used to oppose th...

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Main Author: Alain Desrosières
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Coordinamento SIBA 2014-07-01
Series:Partecipazione e Conflitto
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Online Access:http://siba-ese.unisalento.it/index.php/paco/article/view/14157