Dessiner le marché, démultiplier le calcul. Les rationalisations matérielle et formelle dans la téléphonie au tournant des années 1980

Alexandra Bidet

Revue française de socio-Economie, 2010, vol. n° 5, issue 1, 165-183

Abstract: In the 1970 and 1980s, French telecommunications engineers draw before time a market, by introducing on the paper the figures of a strategic tariff and a calculating customer. This shift offers them an expanded area of calculation, and will encourage them to initiate a tariff reform and an academic economy of networks. Between economics and economy, this article shows a bidirectional link. The taste of calculation led engineers to develop new ways of framing the networks, involving choices of values and a renewed economic morality.

Keywords: economic value; measure; rationalization; knowledge; telecommunications (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2010
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