Cents and Sensibility: Economic Valuation and the Nature of “Nature”

By M. Fourcade. American Journal of Sociology, 2011

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Subfields: Economics and Econometrics, Sociology and Political Science

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Pragmatist perspectives on valuation : an introduction (2015, background): “the risk of disappointing purchases (Hutter and Throsby 2008; Callon and Muniesa 2005; Fourcade 2011).”
Financialisation of Valuation (2015, background): “Monetisation is particularly problematic when the aim is ‘‘pricing the priceless,’’ be it nature (Fourcade 2011) or domestic activities (Zelizer 1985, 1994).”
From performativity to political economy: index investing, ETFs and asset manager capitalism (2016, background): “As illustrated by the protracted performative effects of economic arguments in favour of passive investing, an economic innovation is never self-performing – if it fails to ‘muster enough institutional and political support’ it may have no performative effects at all (Fourcade 2011: 1724–5).”
A Market Mediation Strategy: How Social Movements Seek to Change Firms’ Practices by Promoting New Principles of Product Valuation (2013, background): “Valuation refers to a process through which goods acquire value (Beckert & Aspers, 2010; Fourcade, 2011; Vatin, 2009) and rely on different devices used by market actors to perform calculations and judgements.”
A place-based approach to payments for ecosystem services (2017, background): “…given that its value will depend on whether social values are aggregated from individual values or negotiated between social groups; Kenter et al., 2015); and iii) philosophical issues over whether cultural services should be monetised via PES schemes (Fourcade, 2011; Cooper et al. in press).”
The Geometry of Culture: Analyzing the Meanings of Class through Word Embeddings (2018, background): “This scholarship details how moral distinctions become mapped onto socioeconomic positions (Svallfors 2006) and how moral sentiments shape economic valuation (Fourcade 2011).”