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Dec 31, 2011 • Musings on Bruno Latour’s Politics of Nature, Harvard University Press, 2004 This is a dense and difficult work to unpick and in doing so it helps to be familiar with Bruno Latour’s other works, especially We have never been modern and Reassembling the Social. Much of Latour’s line of thinking of those two books appears...
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Dec 31, 2011 • Review Note on “The Illusion of Free Markets. Punishment and the Myth of Natural Order” by Bernard Harcourt, Harvard University Press, 2011 The Illusion of Free Markets by Bernard Harcourt is an intriguing book. The author is a Professor of Law and Political Science at the University of Chicago and the book is dedicated to...
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Oct 18, 2011 • Review Note on “The Worth of Goods. Valuation and Pricing in the Economy”, edited by Jens Beckert and Patrik Aspers, Oxford University Press, 2011 The Worth of Goods is a book addressing an important topic for all those interested in market studies. It follows in the wake of David Stark’s The Sense of Dissonance and...
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Sep 26, 2011 • Review Note on Debra Satz’s “Why Some Things Should Not Be for Sale: The Moral Limits of Markets”, Oxford University Press, 2010. Debra Satz’s book is a very welcomed addition to the growing engagement of philosophers with questions of morality, ethics and markets. Some of this engagement is well publicised such as Michael Sandel‘s whose...
1. Background In this project, funded by the Leverhulme Trust (F/00 273/N, October 2010 -September 2013) we examine how chemicals companies, oil companies, regulators and others acquire and represent the marine ecosystem’s services in the North Sea as they go about developing, marketing, exchanging, and using chemicals and chemistry services to enhance oil and gas...
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May 1, 2011 • Busy at the moment putting the final touches to the 2011 IMP conference, to be held at the University of Strathclyde from Wednesday 31st August to Saturday 3rd September. We’ve some splendid papers in the area of market studies and I’m looking forward to welcoming friends and colleagues to Glasgow and to the University of Strathclyde Business School.
