Arbitrer pour chiffrer. Les comptables nationaux et l’énonciation de l’économie

What does gross national happiness really measure? An immersive observation in Lamshey, Bhutan

“…For the authors, the issues at stake remain, first of all, to study the effects produced (and potentially new) by quantification, to compare quantification exercises in similar fields, or to propose a case study on a quantification system and the decisions affected. In this extension, studies have questioned the use and political recovery of data (Demortain, 2019;Mügge, 2020) and the methods of calculation of certain specific domains such as the labor market (Dufour, 2021), the digital market (Chun & Sauder, 2021) or the music industry (Baym et al, 2021), and education (Hillebrandt & Huber, 2020). Moreover, none seems to have looked at measuring the population's happiness.…”