The Art of Knowledge Failure
In this monthly Director’s Note, Christopher Newfield reflects on the knowledge crisis gripping our culture.
In this monthly Director’s Note, Christopher Newfield reflects on the knowledge crisis gripping our culture.
In July 2023, former ISRF Political Economy Fellow Dave Elder-Vass was awarded the Cheryl Frank Memorial Prize for his book Inventing Value: The Social Construction of Monetary Worth.
Drawing on the “Economies of Worth” approach (Boltanski and Thévenot 2006; Dodier 1995; Breviglieri et al. 2009), the proposed research seeks to investigate the “politics of values”, that is the struggle for the institutional definition and maintenance of ‘value’, or ‘worth’.
