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oapen-20.500.12657-631212024-03-28T08:18:52Z Can Markets Solve Problems? Neyland, Daniel Ehrenstein, Véra Milyaeva, Sveta economics business philosophy economy political science political philosophy money government public policy strategy geopolitics business books behavioral economics economics books political science books political books politics world politics economic history economic development international politics finance ecology environment nature energy capitalism sociology marxism culture evolution society technology social investing psychology essays gardening biology health social science thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPF Political ideologies and movements thema EDItEUR::T Technology, Engineering, Agriculture, Industrial processes::TB Technology: general issues thema EDItEUR::J Society and Social Sciences::JP Politics and government::JPP Public administration A provocative analysis of market-based interventions into public problems and the consequences.Market-based interventions have been used in attempts to solve numerous public problems, from education to healthcare and from climate change to privacy. Scholars have responded persuasively through critiques of neoliberalism. In Can Markets Solve Problems? Daniel Neyland, Véra Ehrenstein, and Sveta Milyaeva propose a different route forward. There is no single entity knowable as “the market,” the authors argue. Instead, they examine in detail the devices, relations, and practices that underpin these market-based interventions. Drawing on recent work in science and technology studies (STS), each chapter focuses on a different intervention and critically explores the market sensibility around which it is organized. Trade and exchange, competition, property and ownership, and investment and return all become the focus of a thorough exploration of what it means to intervene in public problems, how problems are composed, and how solutions are continually reworked. Can Markets Solve Problems? offers the first book-length STS enquiry into markets and public problems. Weaving together rich empirical descriptions and conceptual discussions, the book provides in-depth insights into the workings of these markets, their continuous evolution, and the consequences. The result is a new avenue of critical inquiry that moves between the details of specific policies and the always-emerging, collective features of this landscape of intervention. 2023-05-24T12:56:12Z 2023-05-24T12:56:12Z 2019 book ONIX_20230524_9781912685158_9 9781912685158 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/63121 eng PERC application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9781912685158.pdf Goldsmiths Press Goldsmiths Press acec4c9d-1c7b-4283-b478-0ac91e6dcfdd 9781912685158 Goldsmiths Press 336 open access
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A provocative analysis of market-based interventions into public problems and the consequences.Market-based interventions have been used in attempts to solve numerous public problems, from education to healthcare and from climate change to privacy. Scholars have responded persuasively through critiques of neoliberalism. In Can Markets Solve Problems? Daniel Neyland, Véra Ehrenstein, and Sveta Milyaeva propose a different route forward. There is no single entity knowable as “the market,” the authors argue. Instead, they examine in detail the devices, relations, and practices that underpin these market-based interventions. Drawing on recent work in science and technology studies (STS), each chapter focuses on a different intervention and critically explores the market sensibility around which it is organized. Trade and exchange, competition, property and ownership, and investment and return all become the focus of a thorough exploration of what it means to intervene in public problems, how problems are composed, and how solutions are continually reworked. Can Markets Solve Problems? offers the first book-length STS enquiry into markets and public problems. Weaving together rich empirical descriptions and conceptual discussions, the book provides in-depth insights into the workings of these markets, their continuous evolution, and the consequences. The result is a new avenue of critical inquiry that moves between the details of specific policies and the always-emerging, collective features of this landscape of intervention.
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