How Standards Rule the World

Download or read book How Standards Rule the World written by Ingrid Gustafsson and published by Edward Elgar Publishing. This book was released on 2020-06-26 with total page 157 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explains how international standards have come to specify almost all aspects of society, While resting on buzzwords such as ‘trust’ and ‘confidence’, the global control regime leaves us with a faceless bureaucratic system with no name and no one in charge. Using empirical and in depth analysis , the author discusses the consequences for responsibility: if no one is in charge, then no one is to be held accountable for how standards rule the world.