Title: Making things valuable /
Authors: Kornberger, Martin, 1974-; Justesen, Lise,; Madsen, Anders Koed,; Mouritsen, Jan, 1957-
Publisher: Oxford University Press,
Year: 2015
Subjects: Value; Valuation.; Industrial sociology.; Industrial sociology; Valuation; Value
Abstract: Addresses the question of valuation theoretically and through empirical analysts of diverse objects of valuations such as university rankings, ice skating scoring, wind power, insurance, gold, and big data.
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.