Valuing the Unique: The Economics of Singularities

By Lucien Karpik. 2010

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A Market Mediation Strategy: How Social Movements Seek to Change Firms’ Practices by Promoting New Principles of Product Valuation (2013, methodology): “…models (Amenta, Carruthers & Zylan, 1992; King, 2008) and economic sociology that works with the notions of valuation (Beckert & Aspers, 2011; Stark, 2009) and market mediation (Karpik, 2010; Dubuisson-Quellier, 2010), I analyse this strategy based on the valuation categories within the market.”
What Happens When Evaluation Goes Online? Exploring Apparatuses of Valuation in the Travel Sector (2014, methodology): “cognitive aids and visible guideposts in the making of choices (Karpik 2010).”
Where Do Prices Come From? Sociological Approaches to Price Formation (2011, background): “Products are classi fied in relation to these “judgment devices” (Karpik 2010).”
Give me a two-by-two matrix and I will create the market: Rankings, graphic visualisations and sociomateriality (2012, background): “These descriptors are now very much part of the machinery for ranking restaurants around the world (see Karpik 2010).”
Multiple competitions in higher education: a conceptual approach (2019, background): “economic sociology, which, under the term of ‘commensuration’ reconstructs the complex processes which allow market participants to define properties that are relevant for the creation and dynamics of markets with regard to common definitions and metrics (Espeland & Stevens, 1998; Karpik, 2010).”
Evaluation practices and effects of indicator use : a literature review (2016, background): “ Karpik, L. (2010) Valuing the unique: The economics of singularities.”
Alternative food networks as “market agencements”: Exploring their multiple hybridities (2016, background): “Tryggestad, 2012), prescribers (Dubuisson-Quellier, 2013; Karpik, 2010), retailers (Barrey, 2007; Le Velly and Goulet, 2015; Mallard, 2012), wholesalers, distributors, and other market intermediaries (Bernard de Raymond, 2011; Kjellberg, 2007).”
Where Do Market Categories Come From and How? Distinguishing Category Creation From Category Emergence (2017, unknown): “Category creation produces and justifies distinctions among offerings (Karpik, 2010; White, 1981) by formulating new discourses and generating new framings (Sauder, 2008; Weber et al., 2008).”
Obfuscatory Relational Work and Disreputable Exchange (2014, background): “In reputable markets characterized by extreme product differentiation, the problem of calculability is usually solved through judgment devices (Karpik 2010), but to apply such a solution to obfuscated exchange would undermine the obfuscatory nature.”
Misfits, Mavericks and Mainstreams: Drivers of Innovation in the Creative Industries (2011, background): “…mechanistic and systematic evaluation (Caves, 2000; Lampel et al., 2000) and call for a complex mixture of formalized knowledge, informal reference, experience, taste and personal judgement because ‘markets of singularities could not function’ without evaluation by experts (Karpik, 2010, p. 46).”
Pragmatist perspectives on valuation : an introduction (2015, background): “7 consumers make judgments about unknown qualities (Karpik 2010).”
Cents and Sensibility: Economic Valuation and the Nature of “Nature” (2011, unknown): “Do they have monetary value in and of themselves, and if so, how do we assess it?”
Imagined futures: fictional expectations in the economy (2013, background): “…the freedom of the trust-taker to defect cannot be eliminated and the decision to trust resembles a “leap” not justified by calculation, but based on faith and judgment, anchored in the as-if portrayal of the behavior of the trust-taker that he will honor the trust (Karpik 2010; Möllering 2006).”