Lucien Karpik

Valuing the Unique

The Economics of Singularities

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Valuing the Unique is the most important book to be published in economic sociology in many years. Karpik develops a full-fledged sociological alternative to understanding the problem of singularities, and offers conceptual breakthroughs that make hitherto puzzling issues much easier to comprehend. No debates on the issue of the valuation of goods will be able to ignore Karpik's theoretical contribution.--Jens Beckert, director of the Max Planck Institute for the Study of SocietiesThis is a wonderfully stimulating book--evocative, provocative, ambitious, and certain to spark debate. It poses important questions and offers new conceptual tools… Mehr

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ISBN: 978-0-691-13710-0
EAN: 9780691137100
Produktnummer: 23179738
Verlag: Princeton University Press
Sprache: Englisch
Erscheinungsjahr: 2010
Seitenangabe: 288 S.
Masse: H23.3 cm x B15.5 cm x D2.5 cm 416 g
Abbildungen: 2 line illus. 5 tables.
Gewicht: 416

Über den Autor

Lucien Karpik is a sociologist at the École des Mines and the Centre Raymond Aron (EHESS) in Paris. His books include French Lawyers: A Study in Collective Action, 1274-1994 and, with Terence C. Halliday and Malcolm M. Feeley, Fighting for Political Freedom: Comparative Studies of the Legal Complex and Political Liberalism.