The worth of goods :  valuation and pricing in the economy / 
ed ited by Jens Beckert and Patrik Aspers. 
 - New York :  Oxford University Press,  2011. 
 - xiii, 346 p. :  ill. ;  24 cm. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/>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. 
<br/><br/><label>ISBN: </label>9780199594641 (hbk.) 9780199594658 (pbk.) 
<br/><br/><label>LCCN: </label>2011-283918 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Prices-- Social aspects.<br/>Pricing-- Social aspects.<br/>Valuation-- Social aspects.
<br/><br/><label>Dewey Class. No.: </label>658.15