LEADER 03018 am 2200601 n 450 001 9910495829703321 005 20240104030455.0 010 $a2-35671-482-0 024 7 $a10.4000/books.pressesmines.3463 035 $a(CKB)3710000001633298 035 $a(FrMaCLE)OB-pressesmines-3463 035 $a(PPN)204524393 035 $a(EXLCZ)993710000001633298 100 $a20170828j|||||||| ||| 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $auu||||||m|||| 200 00$aCapitalization$eA Cultural Guide$fCollectif CSI 210 $aParis$cPresses des Mines$d2017 215 $a1 online resource (168 p.) 311 $a2-35671-422-7 330 $aWhat does it mean to turn something into capital? What does considering things as assets entail? What does the prevalence of an investor?s viewpoint require? What is this culture of valuation that asks that we capitalize on everything? How can we make sense of the traits, necessities and upshots of this pervasive cultural condition?This book takes the reader to an ethnographic stroll down the trail of capitalization. Start-up companies, research centers, consulting firms, state enterprises, investment banks, public administrations: the territory can certainly prove strange and disorienting at first sight, with its blurred boundaries between private appropriation and public interest, economic sanity and moral breakdown, the literal and the metaphorical, the practical and the ideological. The traveler certainly requires a resolutely pragmatist attitude, and a taste for the meanders of signification. But in all the sites in which we set foot in this inquiry we recognize a recurring semiotic complex: a scenario of valuation in which things signify by virtue of their capacity to become assets in the eye of an imagined investor.A ground-breaking anthropological investigation on the culture of contemporary capitalism, this work directs attention to the largely unexplored problem of capitalization and offers a critical resource for current debates on neoliberalism and financialization. 606 $aSocial Sciences, Interdisciplinary 606 $aEconomics (General) 606 $acapitalisme 606 $aanthropologie économique 606 $asociologie 606 $asociologie économique 606 $amarché 606 $afinance 606 $aanthropology 606 $aeconomics 606 $acapitalism 606 $atrade 606 $asociology 615 4$aSocial Sciences, Interdisciplinary 615 4$aEconomics (General) 615 4$acapitalisme 615 4$aanthropologie économique 615 4$asociologie 615 4$asociologie économique 615 4$amarché 615 4$afinance 615 4$aanthropology 615 4$aeconomics 615 4$acapitalism 615 4$atrade 615 4$asociology 700 $aCollectif CSI$01457908 801 0$bFR-FrMaCLE 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910495829703321 996 $aCapitalization$93658133 997 $aUNINA