Article ID: CBB001212598

L'activité statistique de l'Organisation économique et financière de la Société des Nations: Un nouveau lien entre pouvoir et quantification (2012)

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Cusso, Roser (Author)


Histoire & Mesure
Volume: 27, no. 2
Issue: 2
Pages: 107-136

An analysis of the first statistics produced by the Economic and Financial Organization (EFO) of the League of Nations (LoN) suggests two hypotheses. First, there was a will from the beginning to establish an international technical activity with an autonomy intrinsically related to intergovernmental decision. Second, EFO's quantification introduced a new relationship between power and statistics. This relationship differed from the link that the state maintained with its data because, in general, the state was subject to the political pluralism of representative systems. The LoN did not reproduce the relationship between majority and opposition, while in international forums governments could escape from the control of their parliaments. With the EFO, international statistics based on the comparison between states, and backed by governmental agreement, became an original tool of government: they created a direct link between ethical goals (peace) and quantitative knowledge without pluralistic mediation.

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Authors & Contributors
Sen, Priya Vari
Jonathan Voges
Ycart, Bernard
Phillips, Christopher J.
United States. Food and Drug Administration
Wetzell, Richard F.
Concepts
Science and politics
Science and law
Statistics
Mathematics
Quantification
International cooperation
Time Periods
20th century, early
19th century
9th century
20th century
18th century
15th century
Places
United States
Germany
Spain
Russia
Italy
France
Institutions
League of Nations
United Nations
Institut Pasteur, Paris
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