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Making things valuable / edited by Martin Kornberger [and three others].
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Value.
- Valuation.
- Industrial sociology.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 292 pages) : illustrations (black and white)
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford, England : Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- This text 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.
- Contents:
- Introduction : making things valuable / Martin Kornberger, Lise Justesen, Anders Koed Madsen, and Jan Mouritsen
- Noticing numbers : how quantification changes what we see and what we don't / Wendy Nelson Espeland and Stacy E. Lom
- Value in the age of doubt : accounting as a maieutic machine / Paolo Quattrone
- Rating reports as figuring documents : how credit rating agencies build scenarios of the future / Pierre Pénet
- Subitizing practices and market decisions : the role of simple graphs in business valuations / Neil Pollock and Gian Marco Campagnolo
- Capitalization devices : business models and the renewal of markets / Liliana Doganova and Fabian Muniesa
- Valuable assemblages
- or assembling values / Trine Pallesen
- Valuation devices' orientation to each other : imitation and differentiation among devices valuing companies' social and environmental performance / Sabina Du Rietz
- What is a catastrophe model worth? : the (e)valuation practices of data analysts in insurance companies / Laure Cabantous and Théodora Dupont-Courtade
- The enactment of economic things : the objects of insurance / José Ossandón
- The politics of values : a case study of 'conflict-free' gold / Juliane Reinecke
- Notes on object valuation / Celia Lury and Noortje Marres
- Tracing data
- paying attention : interpreting digital methods through valuation studies and Gibson's theory of perception / Anders Koed Madsen.
- Notes:
- Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph
- Description based on print version record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 0-19-102088-5
- 0-19-178076-6
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