Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction -- Value in markets -- I: What is valuable? -- Price an d prejudice: on economics and the enchantment (and disenchantment) of n ature -- What is the price of a scientific paper? -- The value of ethic s: monitoring normative compliance in ethical consumption markets -- Th e transcending power of goods: imaginative value in the economy -- II: Aesthetic markets -- Symbolic value and the establishment of prices: gl obalization of the wine market -- Pricing looks: circuits of value in f ashion modeling markets -- Damien's dangerous idea" valuing contemporar y art at auction -- Infinite surprises: on the stabilization of value i n the creative industries -- III: Financial markets -- Forecasting as v aluation: the role of ratings and predictions in the subprime mortgage crisis in the United States -- Selling value in Kenya's Nairobi stock e xchange -- Coping with contingencies in equity option markets: the "rat ionality" of pricing -- IV: Organizations -- Valuing products as cultur al symbols: a conceptual framework and empirical illustration.