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To write everything about nothing, or to write nothing about everything: this is the problem. (Anonym, circa 1996-97) The first idea to write a book on M athematical Economics, more or less ordered in a historical sequence, occurred to me in 1995, when I was asked, by Istituto delta Enciclopedia Italiana, to write the entry "Storia dell'economia 1 2 matematica" , for the collective work "Storia deI XX Secolo". I thought that it would be interesting to elaborate on the text presented to the editors, to turn it into a book aiming at giving a panorama of what, in my opinion, are the main 20th century contributions to mathematical eco­ nomics. Of course, only a narrow set of the contributions made by economic theorists could be included, both for space limitations and necessity, because 3 of the limited competence of any single author. For instance, I have paid very limited attention to what is now called Macroeconomics, and also to Game Theory, which actually has grown so much as to acquire scientific in­ dependence as a living branch of applied mathematics. For the same reason, I have also left completely untouched such fields as Mathematical Finance, Public Economics, Theory of Taxation, etc. I have always based my presentation on published material only, assuming that what is contained in working papers still waits to be confirmed, possibly in the first years of the 21st century.

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Le gouvernement des hommes use et abuse de « l’argument statistique ». Avec l’émergence d’un État néo-libéral, l’action publique s’appuie de plus en plus sur des indicateurs chiffrés qui fournissent des évaluations de la performance des différentes actions politiques. Des « palmarès » variés connaissent une grande diffusion (souvent sous l’appellation anglo-américaine de benchmarking), en hiérarchisant les lycées, les Universités, et même les nations. Ce passage par la quantification, loin de fournir une image neutralisée des phénomènes, les transforme et les performe. Ce livre propose des études de cas précis, enquêtes sur le budget des familles, commissions du plan, statistiques locales ou comptabilité nationale, analysant la production des statistiques publiques et leur usages par les autorités publiques. Et l’on verra comment la statistique s’est imposée à la fois comme un outil de preuve, dans les sciences empiriques, et comme un outil de gouvernement, selon l’intuition que Foucault avait déjà présentée dès les années 1970 sous le nom de « gouvernementalité ».

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