How to Think About Value HI3T5 week 2 11 October

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How to Think About Value HI3T5 week 2 11 October 2022 Dr. Michael Bycroft “This seems to me the source of all liberty…For during this suspension of any desire, before the will be determined to action, and the action done, we have opportunity to examine, view, and judge, of the good and evil of what we are going to do.” John Locke, Essay Concerning Humane Understanding (1790), book II chap. 21 https://warwick.ac.uk/fac/arts/history/students/modules/hi3t5/ Labour theory Neoclassical (aka subjectivist/marginal/eye-of-beholder/price/market) theory Bourdieu’s distinction theory Graeber’s action theory Mazzucato’s ? theory Production Consumption Circulation Evaluation Medical testing (drugs) Connoisseurship (paintings) Quality control (textiles, alcohol) Assaying (metals) Surveying (land, oceans) Materials testing (wood, iron, stones) Metrology (quantifiable things) Consumption (various) …. Material evaluation Technique Science Material world Age of Reason TERM 1 1.2 How to Think About Value 1.3 Gold and the Atlantic Slave Trade 1.4 Sugar and the Plantation System 1.5 Diamonds and Imperial Rivalry 1.7 Coffee and Orientalism 1.8 Textiles and the Enlightened Consumer 1.9 Horses and Englishness 1.10 Mineral Water and the Growth of Towns TERM 2 2.1 Alcohol and the Fiscal State 2.2 Muskets and the End of the Old Regime 2.3 Air and Social Reform 2.4 Jewellery and the Industrial Revolution 2.5 Land and the British Empire 2.7 The Pacific Ocean and Global Encounters 2.8 Rocks and the Discovery of Deep Time 2.9 Heaven and the Discovery of Deep Space 2.10 Ecosystems and Romantic Science 3.1 Value in the Age of Smartphones Mazzucato, Mariana. The Value of Everything: Making and Taking in the Global Economy. 2018. Helm, Dieter. Natural Capital: Valuing Our Planet. 2015. Anderson, Victor. Debating Nature's Value: the Concept of 'Natural Capital.’ 2018. Martínez Alier, Juan. The Environmentalism of the Poor: A Study of Ecological Conflicts and Valuation. 2002. Vanderbilt, Tom. You May Also Like: Taste in an Age of Endless Choice. 2016. Clune, Michael W. A Defense of Judgement. 2021. James Poskett, “Newton's Slaves,” in Horizons: A Global History of Science (London: Penguin, 2022). Simon Schaffer, “Golden Means: Assay Instruments and the Geography of Precision in the Guinea Trade,” in Instruments, Travel and Science, ed. Sibum et al, 20-50 Jasmine Kilburn-Toppin, “‘A Place of Great Trust to be Supplied by men of Skill and Integrity’: Assayers and Knowledge Cultures in Late Sixteenth- and Seventeenth-century London”, British Journal of the History of Science 52, no 2 (2019): 197-223 -- Robert Boyle, “A New Essay-Instrument Invented and Described by