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CENTER 11: Value 2
 
CENTER 11: Value 2

CENTER: Architecture and Design in America

The papers in this volume tackle the subject of value at one or both of two levels: first, as the attribute of all things that defines them as 'good' or 'bad,' and second, value as the attribute of all the things that make their way to the marketplace where they are weighed and compared in terms of price, benefit, efficiency, and so forth. . . .

TABLE OF CONTENTS

Introduction by Michael Benedikt

Bourgeois Values by Dierdre McCloskey

Metaphors of Value by Mark L. Johnson

Ratio ex Machina: Value in Economics by Philip Mirowski

Values and Metaphors by Robert Kane

Thoreau and the Place of Economy by Philip Cafaro

Reflexivity as Evolution in Thoreau's Walden by Frederick Turner

More- than-ness by Stephen L. Ross

Three for Society: Households and Media in the Creation of 21st Century Communities by Jorge Reina Schement

Gresham's Law and the Logic of Efficacy by Michael Benedikt

I Had an Un-hard Childhood . . . by James K. Galbraith

Preservation of Values: A History of the Preservation and Re-use of Union Station and the Political and Economic Forces that Shaped It by C. Steven Lewis

Cost vs. Investment: Architecture, Technical Knowledge, and the Socialization of Value by Paolo Tombesi

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ISBN: 0934951020

 

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