Book Review: Numbers and the Making of Us: Counting and the Course of Human Cultures

Alonso William Starr Paul (1987). The politics of numbers. New York: Russell Sage Foundation.

Desrosières Alain (1998). The politics of large numbers: A history of statistical reasoning. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press.

Leonardi Paul M. Treem Jeffrey W. (2020). Behavioral visibility: A new paradigm for organization studies in the age of digitization, digitalization, and datafication. Organization Studies, 41, 1601–1625.

Michaud Valérie (2014). Mediating the paradoxes of organizational governance through numbers. Organization Studies, 35, 75–101.

Nelson Diane M. (2015). Who counts? The mathematics of life and death after genocide. Durham, NC: Duke University Press.

Poovey Mary (2010). A history of the modern fact: Problems of knowledge in the sciences of wealth and society. Chicago: University of Chicago Press.

Toksvig Sandi (2004). And woman created … The Guardian, January 23. https://www.theguardian.com/world/2004/jan/23/gender.uk.

Wernimont Jacqueline (2019). Numbered lives: Life and death in quantum media. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.

Wernimont Jacqueline (2021). Quantification. In Thylstrup Nanna B. Agostinho Daniela Ring Annie D’Ignazio Catherine Veel Kristin (Eds.), Uncertain archives: Critical keywords for big data. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press.