TY  - BOOK
AU  - Beckert, Jens,
AU  - Aspers, Patrik,
TI  -  The worth of goods: valuation and pricing in the economy 
SN  - 9780199594641 (hbk.)
U1  - 658.15 
PY  - 2011///
CY  - New York
PB  - Oxford University Press
KW  - Prices
KW  -  Social aspects
KW  - Pricing
KW  - Valuation
N1  - 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
UR  -  http://www.loc.gov/catdir/en hancements/fy1117/2011283918-b.html
UR  -  http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy11 17/2011283918-d.html
UR  -  http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy1 117/2011283918-t.html
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