1: Patrik Aspers and Jens Beckert: Value in Markets
Section I: What is Valuable?
2: Marion Fourcade: Price and Prejudice: On Economics and the
Enchantment (or Disenchantment) of Nature
3: Lucien Karpik: What is the Price of a Scientific Paper?
4: Peter Gourevitch: The Value of Ethics: Monitoring Normative
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: Infinite Surprises: 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?
Jens Beckert is Director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study
of Societies in Cologne and Professor of Sociology at the
University of Cologne. He has held visiting positions at Princeton
University, Harvard University, Cornell University, the European
University Institute, and Sciences Po in Paris. The main focus of
his research is economic sociology with a special emphasis on
markets, organization studies, the sociology of inheritance and
social theory. He is
the author of Beyond the Market: the Social Foundations of Economic
Efficiency (Princeton University Press 2002) and Inherited Wealth
(Princeton University Press 2008). His articles have been
published in journals such as Theory & Society, Sociological
Theory, Organization Studies, and the European Journal of
Sociology. Patrik Aspers holds a PhD in Sociology from Stockholm
University (2001). He has been resident at institutions such as
Harvard University, Columbia University, the London School of
Economics, and the Max Planck Institute for the Study of Societies
in Cologne. He has chaired the economic sociology research network
of the European Sociological
Association, and is President of the Swedish Sociological
Association. The main focus of his research is on economic
sociology, especially markets. He has published two books on
markets: Markets in Fashion: A Phenomenological
Approach (2nd. ed. Routledge 2006) and Orderly Fashion: A Sociology
of Markets (Princeton University Press 2010). Aspers has written on
classical economists such as Alfred Marshall and Vilfredo Pareto,
and published in journals such as the Journal of Economic Geography
and Theory and Society.
The Worth of Goods provides a useful panorama of research on
valuation and offers a series of concepts and empirical cases that
bring to light the diversity and complexity of economic value
production mechanisms
*Étienne Nouguez, Revue francaise de sociologie*
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