L’indice des prix à la consommation. Recomposition des acteurs des conflits autour de sa mesure dans le cas français

Florence Jany-Catrice ()
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Florence Jany-Catrice: CLERSÉ - Centre Lillois d’Études et de Recherches Sociologiques et Économiques - UMR 8019 - Université de Lille - CNRS - Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique

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Abstract: This article proposes a socio-economic analysis of the evolution of the measure of inflation in France. The different external or more muted discussions over the history of the index – throughout the twentieth century and in the first decade of the twenty-first century – have always dealt with questions of distribution and representations of wealth. However, the actors involved in these disputes have changed, as has the macroeconomic context in which they assert their arguments: the political logic putting forward different social relations between the government, public statistical bodies, and trade unions has made way for more scientific logics, which, a priori, give the most recent disputes a more technical nature. By giving a more decisive role to scientific studies, the statisticians that promote them, and a large network of transnational experts, these disputes keep an increasing distance from traditional actors. The different incremental innovations distilled in the measure of inflation allow for a peaceful change in its nature.

Keywords: Conventions; Price index; Inflation; Distribution; Wealth representations; Official statistics; Indices des prix; Répartition; Représentation des richesses; Statistiques (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2019-03-01
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Published in Revue Française de Socio-Economie, 2019, Revue Française de Socio-Economie, 22 (1), pp.19-43. ⟨10.3917/rfse.022.0019⟩

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DOI: 10.3917/rfse.022.0019

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