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Money

A Theory of Modern Society

By: Nico Stehr,Dustin Voss

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Money

A Theory of Modern Society

By: Nico Stehr,Dustin Voss

Since the publication of Georg Simmel’s Philosophy of Money more than a century ago, social science has primarily considered money a medium of exchange. This new book treats money as a more inclusive social concept that has profoundly influenced the emergence of modern society. Money is also a moral and political category. It communicates prices and thus embodies innumerable evaluations and judgments of objects and services, of social relationships and associations. At the same time, modern societies are undergoing fundamental transformations in which money assumes an ever-important role, while banking and financial services constitute the new primary sector of modern service economies. In this book, the authors trace the transformational scope of monetarization and financialization along the four classical productive forces—land, capital, labor, and knowledge—and evaluate the consequences of an irrepressible urge to quantify and monetarize almost everything social. What happens to a society in which the tangible products of the real economy lose their preeminent status, and everything is judged purely according to its economic value? The authors identify an increasing disconnect between market prices and social values with serious social, political, economic, and environmental consequences.

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Routledge

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1000690725

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9781000690729

Knowledge and Economic Conduct

The Social Foundations of the Modern Economy

By: Nico Stehr

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Knowledge and Economic Conduct

The Social Foundations of the Modern Economy

By: Nico Stehr

Changing economic circumstances - namely, an end to the primacy of labour and property as determinants of prosperity - have created a need for a new theoretical platform: one that transcends standard economic discourse.

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University of Toronto Press

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0802078869

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9780802078865

The Power of Scientific Knowledge

From Research to Public Policy

By: Reiner Grundmann,Nico Stehr

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The Power of Scientific Knowledge

From Research to Public Policy

By: Reiner Grundmann,Nico Stehr

Examines how science and scientists influence policy-making, using the examples of eugenics, Keynesian economics and climate policy.

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Cambridge University Press

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110702272X

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Knowledge Politics

Governing the Consequences of Science and Technology

By: Nico Stehr

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Knowledge Politics

Governing the Consequences of Science and Technology

By: Nico Stehr

This book argues that new technologies and society's response to them have created a relatively new phenomenon, "knowledge politics." Nico Stehr describes Western society's response to a host of new technologies developed only since the 1970s, including genetic experiments, test-tube human conception, recombinant DNA, and embryonic stem cells; genetically engineered foods; neurogenetics and genetic engineering; and reproductive cloning and the reconstruction of the human ancestral genome. He looks also at the prospective fusion of nanotechnology, biotechnology, information technology, transgenic human engineering, and cognitive science whose products may, as its boosters claim, some day cure disease, slow the aging process, eliminate pollution, and generally enhance human performance. Knowledge Politics shows how human civilization has reached a new era of concern about the life-altering potentials of new technologies. Concerns about the societal consequences of an unfettered expansion of (natural) scientific knowledge are being raised more urgently and are moving to the center of disputes in society-- and thus to the top of the political agenda. Stehr explains the ramifications of knowledge politics and the approaches society could take to resolve difficult questions and conflicts over present and future scientific innovation.

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Routledge

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1317257030

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9781317257035

Knowledge Capitalism

By: Nico Stehr

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Knowledge Capitalism

By: Nico Stehr

In his newest book, Stehr builds on his classic book Knowledge Societies (1994) to expand the concept toward one of knowledge capitalism for a now, much-changed era. It is not only because of the onset of the Covid-19 pandemic that we are living in a new epoch; it is the idea that modern societies increasingly constitute comprehensive knowledge societies under intensive capitalism, whereby the legal encoding of knowledge through national and international law is the lever that enables the transformation of the knowledge society into knowledge capitalism. The Trade Related Aspects of Intellectual Property Rights agreement, negotiated between 1986 and 1994 as part of the World Trade Organization, is the backbone of the modern society and marks a clear historical demarcation, and although knowledge capitalism is primarily an economic development, the digital giants who are in the driver’s seat have significant effects on the social structure and culture of modern society.

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1000604276

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Moral Markets

How Knowledge and Affluence Change Consumers and Products

By: Nico Stehr

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Moral Markets

How Knowledge and Affluence Change Consumers and Products

By: Nico Stehr

Nothing affects modern society more than the decisions made in the marketplace, especially (but not only) the judgments of consumers. Stehr's designation of a new stage in modern societies with the term "moral markets" signals a further development in the social evolution of markets. Market theories still widely in use today emerged in a society that no longer exists. Consumers were hardly in evidence at all in early theories of the market. Today, growing affluence, greater knowledge, and high-speed communication among consumers builds into the marketplace notions of fairness, solidarity, environment, health, and political considerations imbued with a long-term perspective that can disrupt short-term pursuits of the best buy. Importantly, such social goals, individual apprehensions, and modes of consumer conduct become inscribed today in products and services offered in the marketplace, as well as in the rules and regulations that govern market relations. Stehr uses examples to illustrate these trends and build new theory fitting today's changing consumerism.

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1317255933

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The Governance of Knowledge

By: Nico Stehr

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The Governance of Knowledge

By: Nico Stehr

Social surveillance and regulation of knowledge will be one of the most important issues in the near future, one that will give rise to unending controversy. In The Governance of Knowledge, Nico Stehr predicts that such concerns will create a new political field, namely, knowledge policy, which will entail regulating dissemination of the anticipated results of rapidly increasing knowledge. The number and range of institutionalized standards for monitoring new knowledge has hitherto been relatively small. Only in cases of technological applications has social control, in the form of political regulation, so far intervened. All modern societies today have complex regulations and extensive concerns with the registration, licensing, testing, and monitoring of pharmaceutical products. The increasingly important and extensive area of intellectual property legislation and administration is an example of social control in which certain measures selectively determine the use of scientific finds and technical knowledge. The Governance of Knowledge assembles a range of essays that attempt to explore the new field of knowledge politics for the first time. It is divided into four parts: The Emergence of Knowledge Politics: Origins, Context, and Consequences; Major Social Institutions and Knowledge Politics; Case Studies on the Governance of Knowledge; and Issues in Knowledge Politics as a New Political Field. Individual chapters concern the emergence of knowledge policy, the embeddedness of such regulations in major social institutions, and offer case studies of the governance of knowledge and discuss controversial issues that are bound to accompany efforts to regulate new knowledge. Professionals and graduate students in the fields of scoiology, political science, social science, and law, including policymakers and natural scientists, will find this book extremely informative.

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1351482017

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9781351482011

Knowledge

Is Knowledge Power?

By: Marian Adolf,Nico Stehr

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Knowledge

Is Knowledge Power?

By: Marian Adolf,Nico Stehr

As we move through our modern world, the phenomenon we call knowledge is always involved. Whether we talk of know-how, technology, innovation, politics or education, it is the concept of knowledge that ties them all together. But despite its ubiquity as a modern trope we seldom encounter knowledge in itself. How is it produced, where does it reside, and who owns it? Is knowledge always beneficial, will we know all there is to know at some point in the future, and does knowledge really equal power? This book pursues an original approach to this concept that seems to define so many aspects of modern societies. It explores the topic from a distinctly sociological perspective, and traces the many ways that knowledge is woven into the very fabric of modern society.

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1134864876

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The Fragility of Modern Societies

Knowledge and Risk in the Information Age

By: Nico Stehr

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The Fragility of Modern Societies

Knowledge and Risk in the Information Age

By: Nico Stehr

This book argues that knowledge is now central to the modern economy and its productive processes. It is also essential for social relations, social cohesion and conflict resolution. We have moved from a society based around heavy commodities to symbolic goods, from situated markets to non-place-specific locations, from machines to software and from things to ideas. These changes produce new forms of social interaction and new perspectives on identity, practice and association. This penetrating book slices through the cliches and blind alleys of discussions around the knowledge society to reveal the tendons of contemporary change. Written with insight and panache the book explains the momentous nature of the changes associated with the knowledge society.

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SAGE

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1847876749

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9781847876744

Climate And Society: Climate As Resource, Climate As Risk

By: Nico Stehr,Hans Von Storch

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Climate And Society: Climate As Resource, Climate As Risk

By: Nico Stehr,Hans Von Storch

Climate and Society presents from a transdisciplinary view, climate and its changes, impact and perception. The history of climate and its different approaches over time — which are anthropocentric and more system-oriented, academic and application-driven — are reviewed, as are the possibilities of managing climate, in particular by steering the greenhouse gas emissions. Most importantly, the concepts of climate as a resource for societies are discussed and the emergence of climate non-constancy and its impact, studied. In essence, this book provides an absorbing account of the cultural history of climate and relates it to contemporary scientific knowledge about climate, climate change and its impact.

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World Scientific

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9814467197

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Understanding Society and Knowledge

By: Nico Stehr

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Understanding Society and Knowledge

By: Nico Stehr

Understanding Society and Knowledge proposes that knowledge rather than nature, violence, or power provides the basis of and the driving force behind human action in modern society. It demonstrates how the legally enforced restricted use of knowledge enables the transformation of the knowledge society into knowledge capitalism.

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Edward Elgar Publishing

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1802203796

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Information, Power, and Democracy

Liberty is a Daughter of Knowledge

By: Nico Stehr

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Information, Power, and Democracy

Liberty is a Daughter of Knowledge

By: Nico Stehr

The link between liberty and knowledge is neither static nor simple. Until recently the mutual support between knowledge, science, democracy and emancipation was presupposed. Recently, however, the close relationship between democracy and knowledge has been viewed with skepticism. The growing societal reliance on specialized knowledge often appears to actually undermine democracy. Is it that we do not know enough, but that we know too much? What are the implications for the freedom of societies and their citizens? Does knowledge help or heed them in unraveling the complexity of new challenges? This book systematically explores the shifting dynamics of knowledge production and the implications for the conditions and practices of freedom. It considers the growth of knowledge about knowledge and the impact of an evolving media. It argues for a revised understanding of the societal role of knowledge and presents the concept of 'knowledge societies' as a major resource for liberty.

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Cambridge University Press

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1316467899

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Society And Climate: Transformations And Challenges

By: Nico Stehr,Amanda Machin

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Society And Climate: Transformations And Challenges

By: Nico Stehr,Amanda Machin

Climate has for a long time been a taken-for-granted background against which social, political and economic interactions have taken place. But this taken-for-granted background is cleaving. It is becoming hard to ignore the potential repercussions of a changing climate, and the uneven impact of certain forms of human society and energy cultures that risk undermining their own environmental conditions.In a comprehensive and accessible way, this book:

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Book's by Nico Stehr

Money

Money

Knowledge and Economic Conduct

Knowledge and Economic Conduct

The Power of Scientific Knowledge

The Power of Scientific Knowledge

Knowledge Politics

Knowledge Politics

Knowledge Capitalism

Knowledge Capitalism

Moral Markets

Moral Markets

The Governance of Knowledge

The Governance of Knowledge

Knowledge

Knowledge

The Fragility of Modern Societies

The Fragility of Modern Societies

Climate And Society: Climate As Resource, Climate As Risk

Climate And Society: Climate As Resource, Climate As Risk

Understanding Society and Knowledge

Understanding Society and Knowledge

Information, Power, and Democracy

Information, Power, and Democracy

Society And Climate: Transformations And Challenges

Society And Climate: Transformations And Challenges

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