{"product_id":"assetization-isbn-9780262539173","title":"Assetization","description":"\u003cb\u003eHow the asset—anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream—has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism.\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 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. \u003ci\u003eAssetization\u003c\/i\u003e 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe contributors consider the assetization of knowledge, including patents, personal data, and biomedical innovation; of infrastructure, including railways and energy; of nature, including mineral deposits, agricultural seeds, and “natural capital”; and of publics, including such public goods as higher education and “monetizable social ills.” Taken together, the chapters show the usefulness of assetization as an analytical tool and as an element in the critique of capitalism.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eContributors\u003c\/b\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThomas Beauvisage, Kean Birch, Veit Braun, Natalia Buier, Béatrice Cointe, Paul Robert Gilbert, Hyo Yoon Kang, Les Levidow, Kevin Mellet, Sveta Milyaeva, Fabian Muniesa, Alain Nadaï, Daniel Neyland, Victor Roy, James W. Williams\u003c\/p\u003e1 Introduction: Assetization and Technoscientific Capitalism\u003cbr\u003eI Turning Knowledge into Assets\u003cbr\u003e2 Patents as Assets: Intellectual Property Rights as Market Subjects and Objects\u003cbr\u003e3 Datassets: Assetizing and Marketizing Personal Data\u003cbr\u003e4 A Crisis for Cures? Tracing Assetization and Value in Biomedical Innovation\u003cbr\u003eII Turning Infrastructure into Assets\u003cbr\u003e5 High-Speed Contradictions: Spanish Railways between Economic Criticism and Political Defense\u003cbr\u003e6 Turning Sunlit Rooftops and Windy Sites into Energy Assets\u003cbr\u003eIII Turning Nature into Assets\u003cbr\u003e7 Expropriating the Future: Turning Ore Deposits and Legitimate Expectations into Assets\u003cbr\u003e8 From Commodity to Asset and Back Again: Property in the Capitalism of Varieties\u003cbr\u003e9 Turning Nature into an Asset: Corporate Strategies for Rent-Seeking\u003cbr\u003eIV Turning Publics into Assets\u003cbr\u003e10 English Higher Education: From a Public Good to a Public Asset\u003cbr\u003e11 Recidivists, Rough Sleepers, and the Unemployed as Financial Assets: Social Impact Bonds and the Creation of New Markets in Social Services\u003cbr\u003e12 Conclusion: The Future of Assetization StudiesKean Birch is Associate Professor in the Department of Geography at York University, Toronto.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eFabian Muniesa is Senior Researcher at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation (CSI), a research center of Mines ParisTec.How the asset#anything that can be controlled, traded, and capitalized as a revenue stream-has become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalism.","brand":"The MIT Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46299911028965,"sku":"NP9780262539173","price":50.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":false}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/1842\/7735\/files\/9780262539173.jpg?v=1767721877","url":"https:\/\/k12savings.com\/products\/assetization-isbn-9780262539173","provider":"K12savings","version":"1.0","type":"link"}