The worth of goods: valuation and pricing in the economy

Drawing on theory and empirical research, this interdisciplinary book brings together leading social scientists to examine how prices are set and how values emerge inside and outside of markets, which have become the central force inthe contemporary economy. INDICE: 1: Patrik Aspers and Jens Beckert: Value in Markets; Section I: What is Valuable?; 2: Marion Fourcade: Price and Prejudice: On Economics and theEnchantment (or Disenchantment) of Nature; 3: Lucien Karpik: What is the Price of a Scientific Paper?; 4: Peter Gourevitch: The Value of Ethics: MonitoringNormative Compliance in Ethical Consumption Markets; 5: Jens Beckert: The Transcending Power of Goods: Imaginative Value in the Economy; Section II: Aesthetic Markets; 6: Marie-France Garcia-Parpet: Symbolic Value and the Establishment of Prices: Globalization of the Wine Market; 7: Ashley Mears: Pricing Looks: Circuits of Value in Fashion Modeling Markets; 8: Olav Velthuis: Damien's Dangerous Idea: Selling Contemporary Art at Auction; 9: Michael Hutter: InfiniteSurprises: On the Stabilization of Value in the Creative Industries; Section III: Financial Markets; 10: Akos Rona-Tas and Stefanie Hiss: Forecasting as Valuation: The Role of Ratings and Predictions in the Subprime Mortgage Crisis in the US; 11: Christopher Yenkey: Selling Value in Kenya's Nairobi Stock Exchange; 12: Charles Smith: Coping with Contingencies in Equity Option Markets: The 'Rationality' of Pricing; Section IV: Organizations; 13: Davide Ravasi, Violina Rindova, and Ileana Stigliani: Valuing Products as Cultural Symbols: A Conceptual Framework and Empirical Illustration; Postscript; 14: David Stark: What's Valuable?

• ISBN: 978-0-19-959464-1
• Editorial: Oxford University
• Encuadernacion: Cartoné
• Páginas: 352
• Fecha Publicación: 01/06/2011
• Nº Volúmenes: 1
• Idioma: Inglés