The worth of goods
Subtitle: valuation and pricing in the economy
By: edited by Jens Beckert and Patrik Aspers
Publisher: Oxford University Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9780199594641; 9780199594658
Subjects: Prices; Social aspects; Valuation; Pricing
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Value in markets; title: I: What is valuable?; title: Price and prejudice: on economics and the enchantment (and disenchantment) of nature; title: What is the price of a scientific paper?; title: The value of ethics: monitoring normative compliance in ethical consumption markets; title: The transcending power of goods: imaginative value in the economy; title: II: Aesthetic markets; title: Symbolic value and the establishment of prices: globalization of the wine market; title: Pricing looks: circuits of value in fashion modeling markets; title: Damien's dangerous idea" valuing contemporary art at auction; title: Infinite surprises: on the stabilization of value in the creative industries; title: III: Financial markets; title: Forecasting as valuation: the role of ratings and predictions in the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States; title: Selling value in Kenya's Nairobi stock exchange; title: Coping with contingencies in equity option markets: the "rationality" of pricing; title: IV: Organizations; title: Valuing products as cultural symbols: a conceptual framework and empirical illustration.