About the Author:

Dr. Isabelle Bruno has an M.A. in Sociology of International Relations (2001) and Ph.D. in Political Science from Sciences Po Paris (2006). She is an associate professor at the University Lille 2 (France), where she is a member of the Lille Centre for European Research on Administration, Politics and Society (CERAPS, CNRS/Lille 2). Her first book, entitled À vos marques, prêts... cherchez! La stratégie européenne de Lisbonne, vers un marché de la recherche, was published in 2008. With E.Didier, she recently published Benchmarking. L'État sous pression statistique (Zones/La Découverte, 2013) and they edited with T. Vitale Statactivism: Statistics and Activism in the open sociopolitical studies journal Participazione e conflitto (vol. 7, #2, 2014).

Florence Jany-Catrice is a professor of economics at the University of Lille. She is the director of La Revue Française de Socio‐économie (Découverte and Cairn). Her research mainly focuses on economy of quality, particularly in the field of the service economy; quality of labor and employment; as well as quality of output, wealth and their measures. She has published numerous articles and books, including The New Indicators of Well‐Being and Development (Palgrave McMillan) 2006, and with J. Gadrey; Les services à la personne (2009, with FX. Devetter and T. Ribault) (La Découverte). Her lastest book is entitled La performance totale: nouvel esprit du capitalisme? (2012, Presses universitaires du Septentrion). She has also directed a special issue of the Revue Française de Socio-Economie (2010), Les politiques de quantification.

Béatrice Touchelay is professor of economic and social contemporary history at the University of Lille Nord de France (Lille 3). She is a specialist in history of public (statistics) and private data (accounting) seen as part of the "dialogue" between state and private actors. She has recently published L'Etat et l'entreprise. Une histoire de la normalization comptable et fiscal à la française, Rennes, PUR, 2011 and as articles "Éditorial. La statistique publique, des chiffres sans histoire ?", Revue Française de Socio-Économie 2/2013(n° 12), p. 5--‐14. URL: www.cairn.info/revue--‐francaise‐de‐socio‐economie-2013‐2-page‐5.htm; With Isabelle Chambost, "L'information économique des salaries et de leurs représentants, histoire d'un enjeu de société. Introduction", Economie et société, série Entreprises et finance, KF, n°3, 8/2013/p. 1219-1224.