TY  - BOOK
AU  - Birch,Kean
AU  - Muniesa,Fabian
TI  - Assetization: : turning things into assets in technoscientific capitalism
SN  - 9780262359030
PY  - 2020///]
CY  - Cambridge, Massachusetts
PB  - MIT Press
KW  - Social capital (Sociology)
KW  - Commodification
KW  - New business enterprises
KW  - Electronic Books
N1  - 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
UR  - https://doi.org/10.7551/mitpress/12075.001.0001
ER  -