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Akdeniz University, Antalya, Turkey
Ataturk University, Erzurum, Turkey

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This paper analyses the relationship between statistics and politics grounding on the national accounts by using Michel Foucault’s notion of governmentality as the baseline. The governmentality concerns the form of knowledge that informs the rational and thoughtful activity of governing. This episteme of government crystallizes what forms of thought, knowledge, expertise, and means of calculation or rationality are employed in the practices of governing. All the sampling methods refer to a systematic structure that provides information about almost all of the topics related to population. In this respect, in order to increase the ability of governing the society, therefore, all governments contribute to the transformation of the national income accounts as a statistical tool. This paper additionally proposes the elastic structure of social accounting matrix (SAM), which allows formation of nonstandard frameworks and creates an opportunity to go beyond the governmentality.

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governance, governmentality, political economy, representation

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Economics World, Sep.-Oct. 2017, Vol. 5, No. 5, 477-485 doi: 10.17265/2328-7144/2017.05.010

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