Fickle Formulas. The Political Economy of Macroeconomic Measurement

Project Information

FICKLEFORMS

Grant agreement ID: 637683

DOI 10.3030/637683

Project closed

EC signature date 9 July 2015

Start date 1 September 2015

End date 30 June 2021

Funded under

• EXCELLENT SCIENCE - European Research Council (ERC)

Total cost € 1 499 875,00

EU contribution € 1 499 875,00

Coordinated by

UNIVERSITEIT VAN AMSTERDAM
Netherlands

Publications

Peer reviewed articles (11)

How GDP spread to China: the experimental diffusion of macroeconomic measurement

Author(s): Joan van Heijster, Daniel DeRock
Published in: Review of International Political Economy, 2020, Page(s) 1-23, ISSN 0969-2290
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2020.1835690

Many shades of wrong: what governments do when they manipulate statistics

Author(s): Roberto Aragão, Lukas Linsi
Published in: Review of International Political Economy, 2020, Page(s) 1-26, ISSN 0969-2290
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2020.1769704

The national accounting paradox: how statistical norms corrode international economic data

Author(s): Daniel Mügge, Lukas Linsi
Published in: European Journal of International Relations, Issue 27/2, 2021, Page(s) 403-427, ISSN 1354-0661
Publisher: SAGE Publications
DOI: 10.1177/1354066120936339

White, democratic, technocratic: the political charge behind official statistics in South Africa

Author(s): Juliette Alenda-Demoutiez
Published in: Review of International Political Economy, 2020, Page(s) 1-21, ISSN 0969-2290
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2020.1796752

Studying macroeconomic indicators as powerful ideas

Author(s): Daniel Mügge
Published in: Journal of European Public Policy, Issue 23/3, 2015, Page(s) 410-427, ISSN 1350-1763
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/13501763.2015.1115537

The Lure of Ill-Fitting Unemployment Statistics: How South Africa’s Discouraged Work Seekers Disappeared From the Unemployment Rate

Author(s): Juliette Alenda-Demoutiez, Daniel Mügge
Published in: New Political Economy, 2019, Page(s) 1-17, ISSN 1356-3467
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2019.1613355

Imagining Modernization: The Symbolic Embrace of GDP in China

Author(s): Joan van Heijster
Published in: Chinese Political Science Review, Issue 5/1, 2020, Page(s) 50-73, ISSN 2365-4244
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s41111-019-00132-2

International Economic Statistics: Biased Arbiters in Global Affairs?

Author(s): Daniel Mügge
Published in: Fudan Journal of the Humanities and Social Sciences, Issue 13/1, 2020, Page(s) 93-112, ISSN 1674-0750
Publisher: Springer
DOI: 10.1007/s40647-019-00255-5

Globalization and the growing defects of international economic statistics

Author(s): Lukas Linsi, Daniel K. Mügge
Published in: Review of International Political Economy, Issue 26/3, 2019, Page(s) 361-383, ISSN 0969-2290
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2018.1560353

Hidden in Plain Sight: Unpaid Household Services and the Politics of GDP Measurement

Author(s): Daniel DeRock
Published in: New Political Economy, 2019, Page(s) 1-16, ISSN 1356-3467
Publisher: Carfax Publishing Ltd.
DOI: 10.1080/13563467.2019.1680964

Economic statistics as political artefacts

Author(s): Daniel Mügge
Published in: Review of International Political Economy, 2020, Page(s) 1-22, ISSN 0969-2290
Publisher: Routledge
DOI: 10.1080/09692290.2020.1828141

Book chapters (1)

The Ambiguity of Public Debt Measures

Author(s): Jessica de Vlieger Daniel Mügge
Published in: Il Governo Dei Numeri: Indicatori Macro-Economici e Decisione Di Bilancio Nello Stato Costituzionale, 2020, Page(s) 31-51
Publisher: Mulino

Other (13)

40.3 million slaves? Four reasons to question the new Global Estimates of Modern Slavery

Author(s): Daniel Mügge
Published in: BTS Policy Brief, Issue 1, 2017
Publisher: OpenDemocracy

Inderdaad, Nederland moet niet alleen vooruitgaan in de statistieken

Author(s): Daniel Mügge
Published in: De Correspondent, 2017
Publisher: De Correspondent

Duurzaamheid ís economische groei

Author(s): Daniel Mügge
Published in: Follow the Money, 2017
Publisher: Follow the Money

The Dangerous Depoliticization of Economic Numbers

Author(s): Daniel DeRock
Published in: The Policy Corner, 2018
Publisher: The Policy Corner

Trump uses bad trade statistics. But there’s a bigger problem.

Author(s): Daniel Mügge and Lukas Linsi
Published in: Monkey Cage, 2017
Publisher: The Washington Post

De buitenwacht: Weet wat je meet

Author(s): Daniel Mügge
Published in: MeJudice, 2016
Publisher: MeJudice

Hoe de politiek zich steeds meer achter cijfers verschuilt

Author(s): Daniel Mügge
Published in: Follow the Money, 2016
Publisher: Follow the Money

Hoezo is groei nog steeds basis voor beleid en niet welzijn of geluk?

Author(s): Daniel Mügge
Published in: Follow the Money, 2016
Publisher: Follow the Money

The Unsharing Economy

Author(s): Daniel Mügge
Published in: Follow the Money, 2016
Publisher: Follow the Money

The collateral damage of performance metrics

Author(s): Daniel Mügge
Published in: Duck of Minerva, 2016
Publisher: Duck of Minerva

Unpaid Work and the Governance of GDP Measurement

Author(s): Daniel DeRock
Published in: E-International Relations, 2019
Publisher: E-International Relations Ltd.

Data fails to capture complexity of South Africa’s unemployment crisis

Author(s): Daniel Mügge, Juliette Alenda-Demoutiez
Published in: The Conversation, 2019
Publisher: The Conversation Trust (UK)

Forty Years of Constructing Development: How China Adopted GDP Measurement

Author(s): Joan van Heijster
Published in: E-International Relations, 2018
Publisher: E-International Relations Ltd.