What is the Asset Condition?
What is the Asset Condition?
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什么是资产状况？
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10.1017/s000397561800036x
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2018
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K. Birch
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作者：
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在他们的新书中，费边·穆内萨和他的同事们对他们定义为“资产状况”的东西进行了研究，这是他们在几个不同国家和组织环境中进行了数年研究的结果。这个概念起初很难理解，但随着人们继续阅读他们的书，就会变得更加清晰。因此，穆尼萨等人对“资产”或“资产化”在一系列社会科学学科（以及一些“非学科”）中日益增长的分析和实证关注做出了重要贡献，超越了新古典经济学所确立的神圣基础。在我概述书中的论点之前，我想把它放在这些更广泛的辩论中。很多读者很可能把日常生活中的东西——我特意强调这个词——当作资产，比如他们的房子或汽车。然而，这个词越来越多地被用来指代更多的东西，有时是隐喻性的，有时不是。由于篇幅有限，我将只讨论几个关键的例子。我自己的工作处于政治经济学和科学技术研究（STS）的交叉点，与Muniesa等人在《资本化》一书中的研究非常吻合。一段时间以来，我一直试图将资产作为一个概念进行分解，以理解它们在当代资本主义，特别是技术科学资本主义中的作用。这本书还反映了以库珀等学者的研究为代表的更广泛的STS社区对资产的新兴兴趣
In their new book—the result of research spanning several years and several different countries and organizational settings—Fabian Muniesa and colleagues examine something they define as the “asset condition” [34]. This concept, at first difficult to understand, comes into sharper focus as one continues reading their book. As such, Muniesa et al. have made an important contribution to a growing analytical and empirical focus on “assets” or “assetization” across a range of social science disciplines—and some “undisciplines”— beyond the hallowed grounds staked out by neoclassical economics. Before I outline the arguments in the book, I would like to position it within these wider debates. It is likely that many readers think of fairly everyday things—and I emphasize that word deliberately—as assets, for example, their house or car. However, the term is increasingly used, sometimes metaphorically and sometimes not, to refer to much more. For reasons of space, I will limit my discussion to a few key examples. My own work, which is situated at the interface of political economy and science and technology studies (STS), fits neatly alongside that of Muniesa et al. in Capitalization. I have been trying to unpick assets as a concept for some time in order to understand their role in contemporary, and specifically technoscientific, capitalism. The book also reflects a burgeoning interest in assets in the broader STS community, represented by the research of scholars such as Cooper