Enrichment by Boltanski, Luc -- Read -- Imperial Library of Trantor

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Cover Front Matter Acknowledgments Translator’s note Foreword by Charles Sabel Introduction

Notes

Part I Destruction and Creation of Wealth

1 The Age of the Enrichment Economy

The deindustrialization of Western Europe Old and new sites of prosperity The omnipresence of enriched objects The rise of luxury Heritage creation The development of tourism The expansion of cultural activities The art trade Arles: from railroad shops to contemporary art exhibits An economic reorientation toward the wealthy Notes

2 Toward Enrichment

The characteristics of an enrichment economy Dormant resources in the enrichment economy Changes in French cultural policy A new perspective in economic analysis A shift to different scales From ornamental patrimony to heritage creation Local mutations in global capitalism Partisans of things Notes

Part II Prices and Forms of Valuation

3 Commerce in Things

The commodity condition On the circulation of things Changing hands The process of determination Price and metaprice Critiquing the price Value as justification for a price Price as an element in the construction of reality Notes

4 Forms of Valuation

Structure and transformation group of forms of valuation Analytic and narrative presentations of things The problem of valuation by means of images On the reproduction of things Lacks, totalities, and scarcity Institutions and forms of valuation Structuralism and capitalism Notes

Part III Commodity Structures

5 The Standard Form

The model for the standard form The standard form and industrial production Prototypes and specimens The proliferation of things without persons The internal tensions of the standard form The unease created by the standard form Notes

6 Standardization and Differentiation

The historical dimension of the forms of valuation From trade in things to the circulation of commodities The effect of standardization on the constitution of forms of valuation Material economies, immaterial economies Notes

7 The Collection Form

The modernity of the collection form Systematic collection as an arrangement for valuation Collectors’ items Price and value of collectors’ items The fields of collectables The structure of the collection form Notes

8 Collection and Enrichment

The usefulness of useless things Collecting in thrall to marketing On the use of the collection form by luxury firms The collection form and contemporary art The contradiction of the enrichment economy Notes

9 The Trend Form

Trend, sign, and distinction The structure of the trend form The economic constraints of the trend form From the trend form to the collection form Notes

10 The Asset Form

Characteristics of the asset form On the liquidity of things as assets The commercial potential of assets Notes

Part IV Who Profits from the Past

11 Profit in a Commercial Society

Competition and differentiation Surplus work value and profit Surplus market value and profit Displacing commodities or displacing buyers Shifts among forms of valuation Profiting from the wealthy in the capitalist cosmos Notes

12 The Enrichment Economy in Practice

An enriched village: Laguiole in Aubrac Cutlery valorized by the collection form “A name, a brand, a village” Notes

13 The Shape of the Enrichment Society

The organization of things and persons Who can profit from an enrichment economy? “Losers” and “servants” The return of “rentiers” Notes

14 Creators in the Enrichment Society

The economic condition of culture workers Self-promotion by creators The constraint of self-exploitation The circumstances behind the crystallization of social classes Troubled critiques Notes

Conclusion: Action and Structures

The enrichment economy and a critique of capitalism On pragmatic structuralism Notes

Appendix

Some basic elements of the language of category theory Forms of commodity valuations Notes

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