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Assetization : turning things into assets in technoscientific capitalism / edited by Kean Birch and Fabian Muniesa

Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextPublisher: Cambridge, Massachusetts : MIT Press, [2020]Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
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  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262359030
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Contents:
1. Introduction : assetization and technoscientific capitalism
I. Turning knowledge into assets
2. Patents as assets : intellectual property rights as market subjects and objects
3. Datassets : assetizing and marketizing personal data
4. A crisis for cures? Tracing assetization and value in biomedical innovation
II. Turning infrastructure into assets
5. High-speed contradictions : Spanish railways between economic criticism and political defense
6. Turning sunlit rooftops and windy sites into energy assets
III. Turning nature into assets
7. Expropriating the future : turning ore deposits and legitimate expectations into assets
8. From commodity to asset and back again : property in the capitalism of varieties
9. Turning nature into an asset : corporate strategies for rent-seeking
IV. Turning publics into assets
10. English higher education : from a public good to a public asset
11. Recidivists, rough sleepers, and the unemployed as financial assets : social impact bonds and the creation of new markets in social services
12. Conclusion : the future of assetization studies
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Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Introduction : assetization and technoscientific capitalism

I. Turning knowledge into assets

2. Patents as assets : intellectual property rights as market subjects and objects

3. Datassets : assetizing and marketizing personal data

4. A crisis for cures? Tracing assetization and value in biomedical innovation

II. Turning infrastructure into assets

5. High-speed contradictions : Spanish railways between economic criticism and political defense

6. Turning sunlit rooftops and windy sites into energy assets

III. Turning nature into assets

7. Expropriating the future : turning ore deposits and legitimate expectations into assets

8. From commodity to asset and back again : property in the capitalism of varieties

9. Turning nature into an asset : corporate strategies for rent-seeking

IV. Turning publics into assets

10. English higher education : from a public good to a public asset

11. Recidivists, rough sleepers, and the unemployed as financial assets : social impact bonds and the creation of new markets in social services

12. Conclusion : the future of assetization studies

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