La guerre des indices. L'inflation au Brésil (1964-1994)

Neiburg, Federico

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“…As for sociology and anthropology, the movement can be considered in a somewhat inverse sense. After a series of pioneering but isolated works referring to hyperinflation (Sigal and Kessler, 1997;Spitta, 1988), it was only in the 2000s and 2010s that inflation became the focus of important works, yet always centered on the work of experts and the circulation of their knowledge, and not on the ordinary ways of coping with inflation (Daniel, 2013;Heredia, 2015Heredia, , 2018Heredia and Daniel, 2019;Neiburg, 2005Neiburg, , 2006Neiburg, , 2010Neiburg, , 2011.…”

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“…As Federico Neiburg (2005Neiburg ( , 2006Neiburg ( , 2010Neiburg ( , 2011 has shown, these native ways of acting and thinking about the economy are never completely disconnected from how scientifictechnical knowledge describes and prescribes economic life. The categories and devices created by experts circulate among people and are usually appropriated (and sometimes resisted) by them.…”

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Coping with inflation: Social perceptions and ordinary measures of price increases in contemporary Argentina

Hernández,

Luzzi

2023

International Sociology

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Since the COVID-19 pandemic, in a significant part of the world, the cost of living has once again become a central issue in the agenda of both governments and populations. However, in some countries, inflation has been a distinctive feature of the economy for more than a decade, which the pandemic has only exacerbated. Argentina is one of these countries. Based on a 4-year qualitative investigation carried out among low- and middle-income households in a mid-sized city in Buenos Aires province and complemented by observations made among senior households in the same province during the pandemic, this article seeks two purposes: on one hand, to analyze how price rise appears in people’s concerns when we focus on domestic economies and, on the other, to account for the ways of measuring inflation and evaluating its impacts on such economies. The document intends to contribute to the construction of a perspective on inflation that is attentive to how people act and think about the economy in their everyday lives.

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Coping with inflation: Social perceptions and ordinary measures of price increases in contemporary Argentina

Hernández,

Luzzi

2023

International Sociology

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“…33. Various conceptions of price measurement led to fights (Neiburg, 2011;Stapleford, 2009). For a theory on the measurement through indexes and aggregates in economics see in particular Morgan (2012, p. 204) and Boumans (2005).…”

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The Shifting Legitimacies of Price Measurements: Official Statistics and the Quantification of Pwofitasyon in the 2009 Social Struggle in Guadeloupe

Samuel

2021

The New Politics of Numbers

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In 2009, Guadeloupe experienced a historic 44 day-long strike against the high cost of living. The union-led collective (LKP) leading the strike used calculations and figures as a weapon to prove that players holding dominant market positions captured undue profits (“pwofitasyon”). Also, official price indexes were subjected to radical political criticism by the LKP actors. Yet, by using averages, these calculations could not account for the existence of individual abusive prices. The “statactivistic” momentum resulted in a shift of the legitimate price measurement methods. Calculation was, however, also the collective’s Achilles heel. LKP members’ use of numbers established only a temporary favourable balance of power in the negotiations. It was not enough for them to compete with the state’s calculative skills on an equal basis.

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“…Isso se dá justamente porque eles foram socializados em uma nova cultura dos números, que lhes permitia manipular a diferença entre as unidades de contagem da economia erudita e as unidades de pagamento da economia ordinária, antecipando suas ações em vista da perda de valor do dinheiro. Diante da indexação da economia e dos salários, a retroação das estatísticas sobre os atores, em vez de conter, contribuiu para estimular a inflação (Neiburg, 2011). DADOS, Rio de Janeiro, vol.65 (3): e20190278, 2022…”

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Estado, quantificação e agência: uma análise genealógica

Camargo

2022

Dados

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RESUMO O artigo investiga o papel das práticas de quantificação na construção do Estado e das rotinas sociais, nas formas de governar a população através dos números, nas modalidades de crítica estatística da realidade e nos processos de mudança social. Procuramos contribuir com uma síntese original de duas matrizes interpretativas: de um lado, os estudos anglo-foucaultianos sobre a governamentalidade, que relacionam as formas de quantificação a outras tecnologias de indução das condutas, no liberalismo e no neoliberalismo – “regimes de governo” que produzem e consomem liberdades. De outro lado, a sociologia pragmática francesa, em particular o conceito de “convenções de equivalência” e a ideia de pluralidade das lógicas de ação, que permitem compreender a dupla natureza da estatística como “instrumento de prova” e como “instrumento de governo”, formulada por Alain Desrosières, que prioriza a ciência dos números e seu papel na coordenação da vida social. Propomos um uso crítico desses modelos, ensaiando uma genealogia dos níveis da agência e da vida social que foram construídos progressivamente como domínios de mensuração. Tal opção permite explicitar a singularidade das práticas de quantificação no mundo contemporâneo, examinadas em seus quatro gêneros principais: o benchmarking, o ativismo estatístico, o autorrastreamento e a política dos algoritmos.

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La guerre des indices. L'inflation au Brésil (1964-1994)

Cited by 9 publications

References 20 publications

Coping with inflation: Social perceptions and ordinary measures of price increases in contemporary Argentina

Coping with inflation: Social perceptions and ordinary measures of price increases in contemporary Argentina

The Shifting Legitimacies of Price Measurements: Official Statistics and the Quantification of Pwofitasyon in the 2009 Social Struggle in Guadeloupe

Estado, quantificação e agência: uma análise genealógica

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