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Powerful Metrics - Steffen Mau, The Metric Society: On the Quantification of the Social (Cambridge, UK, Polity, 2019, 200 p.)

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  26 March 2021

Angèle Christin
Angèle Christin*
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Stanford University, Stanford, California, USA, [angelec@stanford.edu]
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European Journal of Sociology / Archives Européennes de Sociologie , Volume 61 , Issue 3 , December 2020 , pp. 486 - 489
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