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The worth of goods : valuation and pricing in the economy / edited by Jens Beckert and Patrik Aspers.
Oxford Scholarship Online: Business and Management Available online
Oxford Scholarship Online: Business and Management- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Prices--Social aspects.
- Pricing--Social aspects.
- Valuation--Social aspects.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (361 p.)
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Oxford University Press, 2011.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- How do we place value on goods - and, importantly, why? Valuation and pricing are core issues in the market economy, but understanding of these concepts and their interrelation is weak. In response, The Worth of Goods takes a sociological approach to the perennial but timely question of what makes a product valuable. Structured in three parts, it first examines value in the broader sense - moral values and how they are formed, and the relations between economic and non-economic values - discussing such matters as the value of an oil spill, the price of a scientific paper, value in ethical cons
- Contents:
- Introduction
- Value in markets
- I: What is valuable?
- Price and prejudice: on economics and the enchantment (and disenchantment) of nature
- What is the price of a scientific paper?
- The value of ethics: monitoring normative compliance in ethical consumption markets
- The transcending power of goods: imaginative value in the economy
- II: Aesthetic markets
- Symbolic value and the establishment of prices: globalization of the wine market
- Pricing looks: circuits of value in fashion modeling markets
- Damien's dangerous idea" valuing contemporary art at auction
- Infinite surprises: on the stabilization of value in the creative industries
- III: Financial markets
- Forecasting as valuation: the role of ratings and predictions in the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States
- Selling value in Kenya's Nairobi stock exchange
- Coping with contingencies in equity option markets: the "rationality" of pricing
- IV: Organizations
- Valuing products as cultural symbols: a conceptual framework and empirical illustration.
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on print version record.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9786613348616
- 9780191806766
- 0191806765
- 9781283348614
- 1283348616
- 9780191618680
- 0191618683
- OCLC:
- 760884554
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