https://booksandideas.net// Books & Ideas is the English-language mirror website of La Vie des Idées, a free online journal which has gained a large readership and established itself in France as a major place for intellectual debate since 2007. en SPIP - www.spip.net https://booksandideas.net/local/cache-vignettes/L144xH68/siteon0-04014.png?1675949311 https://booksandideas.net// 68 144 https://booksandideas.net/The-value-of-land https://booksandideas.net/The-value-of-land 2024-07-04T09:27:05Z text/html en Jacques Thisse Economy city property heritage value Cairn.info <p>Developed land is a major but neglected share of property holdings. In a new book, Alain Trannoy and Etienne Wasmer analyze this form of property, identifying its causes in ways that will generate discussion about its distribution—and possible taxation.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Inequality-of-Human-Lives https://booksandideas.net/The-Inequality-of-Human-Lives 2020-02-27T08:00:00Z text/html en Perig Pitrou Philosophy nature anthropology ethics biology value <p>Between naturalism and humanism, midway between Perec and Adorno, Didier Fassin suggests considering human lives in terms of the evaluation variable accorded to them by the social environment. Thus, compassionate morality is replaced by the demand for justice.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Notre-Dame-Heritage-Emotions https://booksandideas.net/Notre-Dame-Heritage-Emotions 2019-05-02T06:00:00Z text/html en Nicolas Delalande Society Arts Paris sociology heritage art history Text Interviews value monument Notre-Dame emotion fire <p>Flames, disbelief, dread. A cathedral burns and tears flow. But why does our architectural heritage and its disappearance move us so greatly? The sociologist Nathalie Heinich offers some answers.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Where-Does-the-Value-of-Art-Begin-Part-One https://booksandideas.net/Where-Does-the-Value-of-Art-Begin-Part-One 2016-05-02T07:30:00Z text/html en Alvaro Santana Acuña economic sociology contemporary art value <p>Where does the value of contemporary art begin in a globalized art market? Taking as a point of departure the comparison between influential sociological studies exploring prices and markets, this two-part essay examines the profound changes that the contemporary art market has experienced before, during and after the Great Recession.</p> https://booksandideas.net/The-Value-of-Things-in-the-Middle-Ages https://booksandideas.net/The-Value-of-Things-in-the-Middle-Ages 2016-01-25T08:00:00Z text/html en Laurent Feller Middle Ages value money <p>How to assess a value to things when money is lacking? Historian Laurent Feller shows that during the Middle Ages, commercial exhanges were structured by the social value of the persons they involved and the relationships of clientele or dependency they created. Thus valuing practices were necessarily informed by the social contexts in which they occurred.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Money-Value https://booksandideas.net/Money-Value 2016-01-18T08:00:00Z text/html en Angèle Christin & Agnès Gramain & Florence Weber Society Economy economic sociology currency value <p>Twenty years after the publication of Viviana Zelizer's “The Social Meaning of Money”, this special issue brings together scholars from different disciplinary backgrounds to examine the genesis of the book, its impact in shaping the analysis of economic value, and its enduring intellectual influence on both sides of the Atlantic.</p> https://booksandideas.net/Twenty-Years-After-The-Social-Meaning-of-Money https://booksandideas.net/Twenty-Years-After-The-Social-Meaning-of-Money 2016-01-18T08:00:00Z text/html en Nina Bandelj & Marion Fourcade & Florence Weber & Frederick Wherry & Viviana A. Zelizer economic sociology value money <p>The first part of this special issue on Money & Value, published as a series on Books&Ideas, offers several perspectives on the genesis of Viviana A. Zelizer's groundbreaking book, <i>The Social Meaning of Money</i>, the reactions it provoked, and its enduring influence on both sides of the Atlantic.</p>