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Assetization : Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextSeries: Publisher: Cambridge : MIT Press, 2020Copyright date: ©2020Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (244 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780262359023
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 302
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Contents:
Intro -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Contributors -- Index -- Series List.
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Intro -- Series Page -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Table of Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 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 -- Contributors -- Index -- Series List.

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