Assetization Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism

• Other Authors: Birch, Kean (Editor), Muniesa, Fabian (Editor)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Cambridge The MIT Press 2020
• Series: Inside Technology
• Subjects: Economic history; Business ethics & social responsibility; Impact of science & technology on society; Impact of science and technology on society; Business ethics and social responsibility
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How the asset-anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream-has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism. In this book, scholars from a range of disciplines argue that the asset-meaning anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenu...