Making Things Valuable
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Product details:
- Publisher OUP Oxford
- Date of Publication 13 August 2015
- ISBN 9780198712282
- Binding Hardback
- No. of pages306 pages
- Size 236x180x24 mm
- Weight 602 g
- Language English 0
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Short description:
This book provides insights into the process of valuation. Valuing is understood as a plural activity where 'pricing' things is just one way of signifying value. Socio-economic reality is constituted through different 'orders of worth' that are grounded in the way people 'praise' and 'prize' things.
MoreLong description:
What if value is neither an intrinsic quality of an object, nor a reflection of a subjects preferencesbut rather something that is organized and brought into existence through mechanisms, technologies and practices of valuation?
This edited book addresses the question of valuation theoretically and through empirical analyses of diverse objects of valuations, such as university ranking lists, ice skating scoring, wind power, insurances, gold and big data. The theoretical inspiration is interdisciplinary and the volume brings together scholars from economic sociology, accounting, organization studies, and science and technology studies with the aim of understanding through which practices and processes things are made valuable.
Valuing is understood as a plural activity where pricing things is just one way of signifying value. Socio-economic reality is constituted through different orders of worth that are grounded in the way people praise and prize things. The book is arranged around five concerns that underpin the debate about making things valuable. These concerns are: calculating/economizing; commensurating/switching; visualizing/hiding; modelling/tracing; and knowing/disciplining.
Table of Contents:
Introduction: Making Things Valuable
Noticing Numbers: How Quantification Changes What We See and What We Dont
Value in the Age of Doubt: Accounting as a Maieutic Machine
Rating Reports as Figuring Documents: How CRAs Build Scenarios of the Future
Subitizing Practices and Market Decisions: The Role of Simple Graphs In Business Valuations
Capitalization devices: business models and the renewal of markets
Valuable assemblages or assembling values
Valuation devices orientation to each other: Imitation and differentiation among devices valuing companies social and environmental performance
What is a catastrophe model worth? The (e)valuative practices of cat analysts in insurance companies
The enactment of Economic Things: The Objects of Insurance
The politics of values: A case study of conflict-free gold
Notes on Objectual Valuation
Tracing Data Paying Attention: Interpreting digital methods through valuation studies and Gibsons theory of perception
