Announcing a new book, coming soon.
We are excited to announce a new forthcoming edited collection: The Value Economy: Sites, Objects, Conflicts, edited by Kristin Asdal and Liliana Doganova. The book will be published later this year.
Through a rich series of empirical case studies, this book ventures into ‘the value economy’, understood as one of the worlds produced by valuation practices. Across 17 chapters and 23 authors, the book asks: what happens when the question of value is reopened? How do encounters between different versions of value and conflicting procedures of valuation play out? By which tools and techniques are nature, bodies and life made valuable and brought into business practices and economic policy programmes? And in which sites and through which interlinked ecologies of procedures can these be empirically and analytically grasped?
Chapters
1. The value economy: Sites, objects, conflicts
Kristin Asdal and Liliana Doganova
2. Is there an alternative to value? The conundrums of the value-based pricing of drugs
Vololona Rabeharisoa and Liliana Doganova
3. An Emerging Welfare Data Economy?
Ida Schrøder, Jakob Laage-Thomsen and Helene Friis Ratner
4. Governing through value: public service and the asset rationale
Andrea Mennicken and Fabian Muniesa
5. Corporate tax avoidance, legal reform and the geography of value creation
Toni Marzal
6. How is a good academic? Narrative responsibility in the academic value economy
Maximilian Fochler
7. Iconic trees: Valuing the invaluable through bureaucratic work
Ask Greve Johansen
8. Ecosystems, Services and Value Flows
Kewan Mertens
9. Negative emissions as a valuation puzzle
Béatrice Cointe
10. The Value Economy of climate risk: When climate finance goes macro-economy
Kristin Asdal
11. Repurposing the business of business. Mark Carney and the quest to make finance green
Stine Engen
12. Banking on Care in Later Life: A Moral Economy of Investment
Jorge Núñez
13. A spectacle of the sustainability economy
Cornelius Heimstädt
14. Values for future: Swedish pension funds, sustainability and fossil fuel investments
Elena Bogdanova and Linda Soneryd
15. Value economy entrepreneurship: Kelp cultivation in uncertain environments
Marie Stilling
16. In search of the ‘flexible cow’: valuation practices and bodily limits in cattle livestock selection and reproduction
Simon Vanderstraeten, Jenske Bal and François Thoreau
17. What is a solar light worth?
Nassima Abdelghafour