Revisiting Critique. Introduction to  Valuation and Critique in the Good Economy

Kristin Asdal; Liliana Doganova

doi:10.3384/VS.2001-5992.2025.12.2.195-213

Authors

Kristin Asdal TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo
Liliana Doganova Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Mines Paris, PSL University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.3384/VS.2001-5992.2025.12.2.195-213

Keywords:

Valuation, Critique, Good Economy

Author Biographies

Kristin Asdal, TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture, University of Oslo

Kristin Asdal is Professor and Centre Director at TIK Centre for Technology, Innovation and Culture at the University of Oslo. Kristin is an economic historian and professor of STS. She has published widely on sustainability issues, focusing on the tools of politics, the role of economics and often in its encounters with the life sciences and the natural sciences more broadly. Her recent publications include Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital and the Great Economization of the Ocean (2024) (with Tone Huse) and Doing Document Analysis: A practice-oriented Method (2021) (with Hilde Reinertsen).

Liliana Doganova, Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Mines Paris, PSL University

Liliana Doganova is Associate Professor at Centre de Sociologie de l’Innovation, Mines Paris, PSL University. At the crossroads of economic sociology and STS, her research explores valuation practices in the economy. She is the author of Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology (2024), and co-author of Capitalization: A Cultural Guide (2017). Her current research projects focus on forestry and drug pricing.

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