LEADER 03405nam 2200649 450 001 9910795361703321 005 20211023125400.0 010 $a1-5036-2822-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9781503628229 035 $a(CKB)4940000000602321 035 $a(DE-B1597)585486 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781503628229 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC6551397 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL6551397 035 $a(OCoLC)1247679217 035 $a(OCoLC)1257323896 035 $a(PPN)263619036 035 $a(EXLCZ)994940000000602321 100 $a20211023d2021 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur||||||||||| 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 14$aThe current economy $eelectricity markets and techno-economics /$fCanay O?zden-Schilling 210 1$aStanford, California :$cStanford University Press,$d[2021] 210 4$dİ2021 215 $a1 online resource (224 p.) 311 $a1-5036-1227-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tCONTENTS -- $tAcknowledgments -- $tIntroduction -- $t1 Regulating -- $t2 Representing -- $t3 Optimizing -- $t4 Protesting -- $tEpilogue -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aElectricity is a quirky commodity: more often than not, it cannot be stored, easily transported, or imported from overseas. Before lighting up our homes, it changes hands through specialized electricity markets that rely on engineering expertise to trade competitively while respecting the physical requirements of the electric grid. The Current Economy is an ethnography of electricity markets in the United States that shows the heterogenous and technologically inflected nature of economic expertise today. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among market data analysts, electric grid engineers, and citizen activists, this book provides a deep dive into the convoluted economy of electricity and its reverberations throughout daily life. Canay Özden-Schilling argues that many of the economic formations in everyday life come from work cultures rarely suspected of doing economic work: cultures of science, technology, and engineering that often do not have a claim to economic theory or practice, yet nonetheless dictate forms of economic activity. Contributing to economic anthropology, science and technology studies, energy studies, and the anthropology of expertise, this book is a map of the everyday infrastructures of economy and energy into which we are plugged as denizens of a technological world. 606 $aExpertise$xEconomic aspects$zUnited States 606 $aMarkets$xSocial aspects$zUnited States 606 $aElectric utilities$zUnited States 610 $aderegulation. 610 $aeconomic anthropology. 610 $aeconomics. 610 $aelectric grid. 610 $aelectricity. 610 $aengineering. 610 $ainfrastructure. 610 $amarkets. 610 $arestructuring. 610 $athe United States. 615 0$aExpertise$xEconomic aspects 615 0$aMarkets$xSocial aspects 615 0$aElectric utilities 676 $a333.79320973 700 $aO?zden-Schilling$b Canay$01549620 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910795361703321 996 $aThe current economy$93807813 997 $aUNINA