Governance by numbers : the making of a legal model of allegiance

Includes bibliographical references and index.

In search of a machine of government -- The fortunes of an ideal: ruling by law -- Other perspectives on law -- The dream of social harmony by numbers -- The development of normative uses of quantification -- The law geared to numbers : from the gosplan to the total market -- Calculating the incalculable : the law and economics doctrine -- The encroachment of governance on law -- The limits of governance by numbers -- The withering-away of the state -- The return of "rule by men" -- 'Genuinely human work in humane conditions' I: From total mobilisation to th crisis of Fordism -- 'Genuinely human work in humane conditions' II: From quantified exchange to ties of allegiance -- The structure of ties of allegiance.