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Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism

Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism

Birch, Kean
Muniesa, Fabian

Paperback

Series: Inside Technology

Business GeneralEconomicsTechnology & Engineering

ISBN10: 0262539179
ISBN13: 9780262539173
Publisher: MIT Press
Published: Jul 14 2020
Pages: 344
Weight: 1.32
Height: 0.90 Width: 5.80 Depth: 9.00
Language: English
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 revenue stream--has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism. An asset can be an object or an experience, a sum of money or a life form, a patent or a bodily function. A process of assetization prevails, imposing investment and return as the key rationale, and overtaking commodification and its speculative logic. Although assets can be bought and sold, the point is to get a durable economic rent from them rather than make a killing on the market. Assetization examines how assets are constructed and how a variety of things can be turned into assets, analyzing the interests, activities, skills, organizations, and relations entangled in this process.

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