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1 online resource (171 pages) |
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Culture, economy and the social |
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Culture, economy and the social.
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Cover; Title Page; Copyright Page; Table of Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; PART I The problem of performativity; 1 A few theoretical rudiments; The performative turn in the social sciences; Four distinctive philosophical problems; 2 The consideration of economic reality; Studies in the constitution of economic things; Economic naturalism against the practice of economizing; PART II Elementary case studies; 3 Recounting financial objects; The investment bank as a puzzle; The back office and the trouble with finalization; Processing descriptions through the banking space |
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Singular objects and written confirmationsThe valuation of financial objects as a problem of description; Technocratic mastery and back office intricacy; 4 Discovering stock prices; Making market perfection algorithmically explicit; Potential, real, virtual and actual prices; The trouble with second-order transparency; Provoking prices of particular kinds; 5 Testing consumer preferences; Performativity and the marketing simulacrum; Taming the test, taming the market; Becoming a measuring instrument; The experience of elicitation as provocation; The sociology of market testing |
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6 Realizing business valueThe hermeneutics of the business subject; The object of valuation and the intuition of capitalization; 7 Indicating economic action; Masses of performance targets and indicators; Political or economic action; Quantifying scientific production; Indicating an economic effect; Provoking a state of economy; Tentative conclusion; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Do things such as performance indicators, valuation formulas, consumer tests, stock prices or financial contracts represent an external reality? Or do they rather constitute, in a performative fashion, what they refer to? The Provoked Economy tackles this question from a pragmatist angle, considering economic reality as a ceaselessly provoked reality. It takes the reader through a series of diverse empirical sites - from public administrations to stock exchanges, from investment banks to marketing facilities and business schools - in order to explore what can be seen fr |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
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Economic indicators.
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Economics -- Statistical methods.
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Finance.
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Value.
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finance.
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value (economic concept)
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POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture.
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Economic indicators
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Economics -- Statistical methods
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Finance
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Value
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781135089955 |
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1135089957 |
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130679823X |
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9781306798235 |
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9780415857130 |
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0415857139 |
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9780203798959 |
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0203798953 |
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