About the book
The ocean is the site of an ongoing transformation that is aimed at creating new economic opportunities and prosperity. In Nature-Made Economy: Cod, Capital, and the Great Economization of the Ocean, Kristin Asdal and Tone Huse explore how the ocean has been harnessed to become a space of capital investment and innovation, and how living nature is wrested into the economy even as nature, in turn, resists, adapts to, or changes the economy. The authors' innovative methodological and conceptual approaches examine the economy by focusing on surprising and numerous “little tools” - such as maps and policy documents, quality patrols, and dietary requirements for the enhancement of species' biological propensities - that value, direct, reorder, accomplish, and sometimes fail to serve our ends, but also add up to great change.
About José Ossandón
José Ossandón is Associate Professor at Copenhagen Business School, Department
of Organization, with a PhD from Goldsmiths University of London. His research focuses on the organization of markets and the work of experts who claim to know how to make markets work to solve matters of collective concerns (see for instance the special issue he co-edited for Economy and Society). He has also studied the different actors and techniques involved in the management and government of domestic finance (a recent example is a co-authored Socio-Economic Review paper). He is co-editor-in-chief of Valuation Studies and an associate editor at the Journal of Cultural Economy. Read more about him here.
About Koray Çalışkan
Koray Çalışkan is an economic sociologist teaching at The New School, Parsons
School of Design. He is the author of "Data Money: Inside Cryptocurrencies, Their Communities, Markets, and Blockchains" (Columbia, 2023). Çalışkan’s research on cryptocurrencies was selected as a winner of the Breakthrough of the Year 2021 in Social Sciences and Humanities by the Falling Walls Foundation, Berlin. His new book, co-authored with Michel Callon and Donald MacKenzie, is entitled "Economization: Markets, Economies, and Platforms in Perspective" (forthcoming in 2024 from Columbia UP). Currently, he is conducting research on online advertisements. Read more about him here.
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