Pub Date : 2024-02-22DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2024.2312710
Jana Bacevic, Linsey McGoey
How liberal governments manage knowledge, ignorance, prediction and uncertainty has attracted increased attention across the social sciences. In this paper, we analyse the strategy and rhetoric of ...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-22DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2024.2309802
Lisa Knoll, Alec Fraser
Assetization has become a promising analytical lens in the field of economic sociology and related disciplines. It highlights the creation of reliable income streams for investors instead of compet...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-14DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2024.2307779
Ute Tellmann, Veit Braun, Barbara Brandl
In recent years, the terms ‘asset’, ‘assetization’, ‘asset form’ and ‘asset condition’ have gained prominence. Closely related to established notions of financialization and capitalization, they pr...
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Pub Date : 2024-02-08DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2023.2294604
Amber Howard, Cody Hochstenbach, Richard Ronald
Much of the literature surrounding ‘generation rent’ has been criticized for neglecting socio-economic inequalities, stimulating an emergent body of work addressing intersections between age and cl...
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Pub Date : 2024-01-31DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2023.2294602
David Kampmann
This paper examines the venture capital-driven process of making intangible assets in platform start-up firms. By examining the case study of the rise and fall of a venture capital-backed ‘unicorn’...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-13DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2023.2287885
Andrea Muehlebach
This paper explores the forms of debt that come into play as public water utilities are privatized and financialized. On the one hand, the financialization of water utilities sets in motion a polit...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-11DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2023.2285172
Chris Hurl, Alia Nurmohamed
Despite widespread criticisms, governments around the world have adopted Value for Money (VfM) analysis as a key metric in gauging the prospective value of infrastructure projects. This paper exami...
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Pub Date : 2023-12-06DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2023.2268415
Matt Barlow
This paper argues that ideas about tax matter as much as interests and institutions for understanding social attitudes and responses to attempts by the state to raise revenues for development agend...
本文认为,要理解社会对国家为发展议程筹集资金的尝试所持的态度和反应,税收观念与利益和制度同样重要。
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Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2023.2264063
Liam Stanley, Tom McGrath, Tom Hunt
Wealth taxes are back on the political agenda of developed democracies, but are subject to contestation. Given increasing inequality, middle classes may support wealth taxes so to redistribute weal...
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Pub Date : 2023-11-22DOI: 10.1080/03085147.2023.2274223
Brian Silverstein
Producers in many sectors, including food, are seeking to convert chemical compounds into value. Turkey is in the midst of a ‘quality turn’ in its olive oil sector, as producers seek ways to captur...
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