This chapter considers how incommensurable artefacts and actors are brought together, the relationships between them standardized, so that they can be compared in the same space. This issue described here as the labour of comparison is beginning to attract attention from scholars in Science and Technology Studies (STS), Economic Sociology, Organization Studies and beyond. Some have gone as far as to conceptualize the economy in a way that comparison is central to its organization (Callon et al.,
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Type: Book Chapter
Book Title: Calculating the Social: Standards and the Reconfiguration of Governing (2010)
ISBN: 9780230579316