Valuation Studies (Oct 2015)

Grappling with the Economy of Enrichment

  • Luc Boltanski,
  • Arnaud Esquerre

DOI
https://doi.org/10.3384/VS.2001-5592.153175
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 3, no. 1

Abstract

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In a conversation with Fabian Muniesa from the board of editors of Valuation Studies, Luc Boltanski and Arnaud Esquerre unravelled a few of the distinguishing features of their new work on the sociology of valuation. Combining an updated view on the pragmatics of justification and a more recent preoccupation with the problem of prices, their proposal appears as both a suitable contribution and a timely challenge to current threads in valuation studies. It also interacts in a stimulating fashion with their concomitant analysis of the political atmosphere in France, and more widely of the shift to identity that so vividly informs the critique of capitalism today.