PDF-(BOOK)-Assetization: Turning Things into Assets in Technoscientific Capitalism (Inside

How the assetanything that can be controlled traded and capitalized as a revenue streamhas become the primary basis of technoscientific capitalismIn this book scholars from a range of disciplines argue that the assetmeaning anything that can be controlled traded and capitalized as a revenue streamhas 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 Assetization 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 processThe 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 capitalismContributors Thomas 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. Asger Sørensen, . Ph.D., associate professor. Department of Education, . Aarhus university, . aso@dpu.dk. Why critique of capitalism?. Well, Jacob asked, and I said yes!. Generational theme. - before post-modernism. – Well/be-. ing. Dr. Peter Doran, . School of Law, . Queens University Belfast. Summary: . Everything Counts . The current policy debate on measuring wellbeing coincides with . – and is not unrelated to - . Industrial revolution spreads….. Rising Economic Powers are all industrial. Each will want access and control over RAW MATERIALS and MARKETS. raw materials: . Markets:. Q: What might happen when industrial nations want what NON-industrial nations have? What effect will the “industrial vs. NON-industrial tension” have on the world?. Professor Craig Calhoun. Director and President. London School of Economics. Collapse?. Capitalism seems to be surviving a deep and still lingering global crisis. A longer period of depressed growth than the Great Depression. S. Todd. Capitalism vs. Communism. Capitalism. and . communism . are opposing schools of thought in . economics and politics. The central arguments in the communist/capitalist debate are about:. Economic equality . Transformation of partitioned codes for. execution in heterogeneous architectures. PABLO BARRIO. TOBIAS KENTER. CARLOS CARRERAS. CHRISTIAN PLESSL. ROBERTO SIERRA. Outline. 2. Turning CFGs into callgraphs. Serious Social Investing Conference 2016. April 2016. Who we are. Established in 1985 by Archbishop Desmond Tutu, the late Dr Beyers . Naude. ´, Archbishop Emeritus Desmond Tutu . and other clergy from the South African Council of . Module . Eight . | Lesson . Two. “Profit for business is like oxygen for people: . if you don't have enough of it, you're out of the  game. . However, if you think your life is about breathing . -A mindset. -“an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production, distribution, and exchange, characterized by the freedom of capitalists to operate or manage their property for profit in competitive conditions” . Two Foundational Propositions. Foundational Proposition of Critical Social Science. Many . forms of human suffering and many deficits in human flourishing are the result of existing institutions and social structures. . Industrial revolution spreads….. Rising Economic Powers are all industrial. Each will want access and control over RAW MATERIALS and MARKETS. raw materials: . Markets:. Q: What might happen when industrial nations want what NON-industrial nations have? What effect will the “industrial vs. NON-industrial tension” have on the world?. Capitalism into question : Politics and Art What is the Capitalism ? A capitalist society is based on private property , corporate ownership of capital goods and on the competition Why we need socialism.. . An introduction to socialism. What is capitalism?. Society’s means of production privately owned.. System driven by hunt for profit.. Source of wealth is the labor of working people.. Reprint 99304 Turning Negotiation into aCorporate Capabilityby Danny Ertel Reprint 99304