Markets in the making: rethinking competition, goods, and innovation

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Contents
Preface to The English Edition
Introduction: The Enigma of The Market
	From the Streets of London . . .
	. . . to the Strip in Las Vegas
I. From Interface Markets to Market Agencements
	What Is a Market?
	The Interface Market Model
	Toward the Model of Market Agencements
	Chapter Summaries: Understanding Markets as Framings
II. The Process of Making Goods Mobile and Alienable
	I. The Process of Market Passiva(c)tion
		Spaces of Circulation and the Careers of Goods
		Disentangling Things from a Density of Associations
		Framing Reentanglement: Passiva(c)tion
		Nonmarket-Oriented Passiva(c)tion: Keeping while Giving
		Market-Oriented Passiva(c)tion: Disentanglement with Detachment
		The Problem of Property Rights
	II. Market-Oriented Passiva(c)tion Is a Never-Ending Odyssey: The Telling Example of Commodities Deemed Fictitious
		Human Labor
		Land
		Money and Its Derivatives
		The Passiva(c)tion of Certain Living Beings
		Some Final Remarks on Overcoming Trials of Strength in Passiva(c)tion
III. Agencies and Their Qualculative Equipment
	There Are a Multitude of Agents with Diff erent Equipment
	Enriching Our Description of Agents and Their Equipment
	From Calculation to Qualculation
	Qualculative Agencies
	Some Examples of Diverse Agencies and Their Equipment
	Power Dynamics between Agencies
	Qualculation Devices Are the Equipment of a Habitus
IV. Organizing Market Encounters
	Encounters Create Value
	Encountering Platforms and Their Networks
	Platforms as Exploratoriums
	Singular Multitudes
	Matters of Concern
V. Affectio Mercatus: Attachments and Detachments
	Searching for Affectio Mercatus
	How Goods Get Attached and Detached
	Three Attachment Devices for Engaging Goods
	More and More Attaching Attachments?
VI. Price Formulation
	Theories of Pricing in Interface Markets
	Price Formulation
	Price Formulation Singularizes Goods
	Why Price Competition and Nonprice Competition Is a False Distinction
	How Price Becomes a Tool for Ranking
	Formulations Are Everywhere
	The Power of Formulas
	Confronting Formulas
	How Problems Can Incite Demands for Reformulation
	What about Morality?
VII. How Do Market Agencements Evolve?
	Why the Term Market “Agencements” and Not “Dispositifs”?
	An Agencement Acts
	There Are No Market Agencements without Nonmarket Agencements
	The Dynamics of Concerns
VIII. The Role of Theorization In Transforming Markets
	Theory as Contribution to the Expression of Concerns: Reopening the Debate about Financial Markets and Their Design
	Avoiding the Worst: Climate Change Policies and Theoretical Realism
	How Market Agencements Coexist: The Case of Genetically Modified Crops
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Index