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Why would you buy an electric car on Jetski Friday? : or, a critique of financial markets from an options trading room

Souleles, Daniel Scott - In: Finance and society 7 (2021) 2, pp. 113-129

This article presents a close, dialogue-based ethnographic account of a group of contemporary options market makers … making a decision about pricing options in Tesla, Inc. Careful attention to their deliberations reveals how the rise of …

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Introduction: volatility in finance, art, and culture

Lee, Benjamin; Rosamond, Emily - In: Finance and society 9 (2023) 3, pp. 1-17

The term "volatility" applies to changeability: both that which can be measured, such as temperatures and stock prices, and that which cannot be easily measured, such as affects and emotions. Quantitative financial volatility has typically been studied quite separately from art, culture, and...

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Assets need audiences : how venture capitalists boost valuations by recruiting investors to asset circles

Elder-Vass, Dave - In: Finance and society 7 (2021) 1, pp. 1-19

Narratives and conventions have received considerable attention in recent discussions of the valuation of financial …

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Contemporary art, capitalization and the blockchain : on the autonomy and automation of art's value

Lotti, Laura - In: Finance and society 2 (2016) 2, pp. 96-110

's valuation practices increasingly reflect the logic of capitalization; on the other hand, it assesses the emancipatory potential … problems for art's valuation methods in relation to the liquid logic of algorithmic finance. …

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Plotting the art market : an interview with Clare McAndrew

McAndrew, Clare (interviewee); Malik, Suhail (interviewer); … - In: Finance and society 2 (2016) 2, pp. 151-167

Clare McAndrew is a leading analyst of the global art market. Here the guest editors of this special issue interview McAndrew on the structures of the art market, its sectorial and regional arrangements, and transformations in its historical, technical, and monetary operation. Their discussion...

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The everyday construction of value : a Canadian investment fund, Chilean water infrastructure, and financial subordination

Pryke, Michael; Allen, John - In: Finance and society 8 (2022) 2, pp. 189-208

Infrastructure in several economies in the Global South has rapidly undergone financialization, aided and abetted by governments opening-up their infrastructure assets to global institutional investors in search of stable, predictable revenue streams. This account of financialization could be...

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Globalizing financial valuation : International property consultants in São Paulo

Shimbo, Lucia; Sanfelici, Daniel - In: Finance and society 9 (2023) 1, pp. 35-53

financialized valuation approaches in São Paulo's local property market. Through a qualitative inquiry into large IPCs and their … main clients in the city, we show that IPCs have promoted valuation approaches that are tailored to the needs of financial … co-exist with long-established valuation techniques that reflect the social and economic circumstances of Brazil …

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Revaluation fantasy

Muniesa, Fabian - In: Finance and society 9 (2023) 1, pp. 73-75

Financial conspiracies today blend together antisemitic tropes and spiritual visions with ideals of political reform and economic salvation. It is tempting to locate such phenomena at the periphery of the financial order, situating them within a delusional space beyond judicious concepts of...

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The social determination of monetary value : a response to Ecks

Elder-Vass, Dave - In: Finance and society 9 (2023) 2, pp. 64-66

Ecks is disappointed that Inventing Value (2022) does not develop a comprehensive, essentially ethical, theory of the value of things based in the materiality of human need. But this is not the objective of the book. Instead, the book seeks to examine how value, as we assess it in specifically...

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