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Finance, Class, and the Birth of Neoclassical Economics: The Marginalist Revolution Revisited
by Yair Kaldor* In economic textbooks, the concept of “value” is regarded as nothing more than the prevailing market price. This definition might seem self-evident, but it stands in sharp contrast to the classical theories of Adam Smith and David … Continue reading
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Tagged Culture, economics, history of economic thought, ideas, sociology of knowledge, valuation
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The Pricing of Progress and the Origins of GDP
by Eli Cook* In the past few years, roughly half a dozen books have come out examining the meteoric rise and profound impact of Gross Domestic Product (GDP). An economic indicator that measures the money-making capacities of a nation by … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, economic history, economics, GDP, valuation
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Framing Value of Things and Making Things Valuable
My experiences at Asian floating markets have included constant conversations between me and merchants, and thereafter between me and myself, such as: “How much is it?” — “How much do you want to give me?”, he replies. “How much was … Continue reading
Value and its Enigmas: from Stained Cloths to Matrimonial Alliances
by André Vereta Nahoum Since the days economics was basically a British endeavour, the production of value (and price formation) has been one of the most fiercely debated topics of the discipline. Such is the centrality of the issue at stake … Continue reading
The Alienated Consciousness, Homo Economicus and Capitalism
Norman O. Brown, a brilliant American scholar and social philosopher: “The alienated consciousness is correlative with a money economy. Its root is the compulsion to work. This compulsion to work subordinates man to things, producing at the same time confusion in the valuation of … Continue reading
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Tagged capitalism, consumerism, money, valuation, wealth, work
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Debt to Society: Accounting for Life under Capitalism
Miranda Joseph‘s important and interesting book Debt to Society: Accounting for Life under Capitalism is a timely scholarly endeavour to understand, what I once termed Neoliberal Pauperism. Joseph’s research focuses on one of the key practices related to debt’ control – accounting and quantification. It studies modes … Continue reading
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Tagged accounting, credit, debt, Economic Sociology, finance, gender, neoliberalism, valuation
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What is money? Can we grasp the current state of the economy as a crisis of money itself?
The latest crisis has incited substantial conversation about debt, banking, financialization, and the commodification of everyday life. All these issues are inherently related to money. But what exactly is money? Where does it come from? Who does make our money … Continue reading
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Tagged banking, capitalism, credit, crisis, debt, Economic Sociology, economics, money, valuation
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The Value of Nothing and Market Society
In The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy, an award-winning academic and activist Raj Patel (University of Texas) reveals the hidden ecological and social costs of a hamburger (as much as $200), and discusses how we … Continue reading
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Tagged civil society, democracy, economics, environment, policy, politics, prices, sustainability, valuation
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“Crisis, Value & Hope: Rethinking the Economy” — Current Anthropology special issue
“Crisis, value, and hope are three concepts whose intersection and mutual constitution open the door for a rethinking of the nature of economic life away from abstract models divorced from the everyday realities of ordinary people, the inadequacies of which … Continue reading
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Tagged anthropology, credit, crisis, debt, financialization, money, valuation
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The Sense of Dissonance: Accounts of Worth in Economic Life
David Stark argues, firms would often be better off, especially in managing change, if they allowed multiple logics of worth and did not necessarily discourage uncertainty. In fact, in many cases multiple orders of worth are unavoidable, so organizations and firms … Continue reading
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Tagged banking, Economic Sociology, ethnography, heterarchy, Hungary, investment, organization theory, start-up, valuation
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The Worth of Goods: Valuation and Pricing in the Economy
This valuable volume The Worth of Goods: Valuation and Pricing in the Economy, edited by Jens Beckert and Patrik Aspers revisits established theories of value and takes a sociological approach to the perennial but timely question of what makes a product valuable. Leading … Continue reading
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Tagged Economic Sociology, ethics, financial markets, markets, valuation, values
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