Presenter: Prof Lorenzo Fioramonti, Professor of Political Economy & Jean Monnet Chair in Regional Integration and Governance, University of Pretoria In this seminar, Lorenzo Fioramonti provides a critique of the current 'data fever', especially in the context of credit ratings and international benchmarks, showing both the direct consequences and indirect implications of the increasing power of numbers. At the same time, it investigates innovative attempts to resist the invasion of mainstream statistics by providing alternative measurements or rejecting quantification altogether. An innovative and timely exposé of the politics, power and contestation of numbers in everyday life.
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