Publisher's Synopsis
Knowing to Transform describes how Italian agricultural economists collected information about the economy of Italy, between the Giolittian and the Fascist era. The book carefully describes three main forms of economic observation: enquiries, statistics, and farm surveys. For each of these forms of observation, the main participants to the investigation are discussed with their respective agendas, alongside the purposes of the investigation, and its practical constraints. This work introduces the concept of ?stakeholder statistics?, and stresses the two-way relation between the observer and the observed in the coproduction of observational knowledge.
