Liliana Doganova is Associate Professor at the Centre de Sociologie de l'Innovation, Mines Paris, PSL University. At the crossroads of economic sociology and STS (Science and Technology Studies), her research explores valuation practices in the economy. She is the author of Valoriser la Science and co-author of Capitalization: A Cultural Guide. Her new book Discounting the Future: The Ascendancy of a Political Technology analyzes the relations between temporality and valuation through a historical sociology of the technique of "discounting the future". Her current research projects focus on forestry and drug pricing. Read more about the book here.
Einar Lie, Professor of Economic History at the Department of Archaeology, Conservation and History, University of Oslo, will comment the seminar. Read more about him here.