The World of Indicators: The Making of Governmental Knowledge through Quantification (Cambridge Studies in Law and Society) - Softcover
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Explores the proliferation of indicators and the resulting transformations in entanglements between social science, markets and politics in public life.
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Richard Rottenburg holds a Chair in Anthropology at Martin Luther University of Halle, Wittenberg, Germany. His research focuses on the anthropology of law, organization, science and technology (LOST).
Sally Engle Merry is Silver Professor of Anthropology at New York University and a faculty director of the Center for Human Rights and Global Justice at the New York University School of Law.
Sung-Joon Park is a lecturer at the Institute for Anthropology of the University of Leipzig.
Johanna Mugler is a lecturer at the Institute for Social Anthropology at the University of Bern.
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