188 Pages
by
Routledge
188 Pages
by
Routledge
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On Value and Valuation asks whether the category of economic value remains theoretically viable, how value is formed, and how it should be understood. It explores the interlinkages between economic value and social and cultural values.
On the one hand, the book draws on anthropological and sociological accounts of the evaluative frameworks within which things take on their social meanings; on... Read more
Preface
Acknowledgements
Introduction
1. Attachment and Valuation
2. Marxist Value Theory
3. Knowledge and Value
4. Marketing Nature
5. The Platform Economy
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index.
Biography
John Frow is Emeritus Professor of English at the University of Sydney and the author of numerous books and articles, including Marxism and Literary History (1986), Cultural Studies and Cultural Value (1995), Time and Commodity Culture (1997), Genre (2006/2015), Character and Person (2014), and On Interpretive Conflict (2019).
