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CONTENTS
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7 Part I Destruction and Creation of Wealth 1 The Age of the Enrichment Economy The deindustrialization of Western Europe Old and new sites of prosperity The omnipresence of enriched objects The rise of luxury Heritage creation The development of tourism The expansion of cultural activities The art trade Arles: from railroad shops to contemporary art exhibits An economic reorientation toward the wealthy Notes 2 Toward Enrichment The characteristics of an enrichment economy Dormant resources in the enrichment economy Changes in French cultural policy A new perspective in economic analysis A shift to different scales From ornamental patrimony to heritage creation Local mutations in global capitalism Partisans of things Notes
8 Part II Prices and Forms of Valuation 3 Commerce in Things The commodity condition On the circulation of things Changing hands The process of determination Price and metaprice Critiquing the price Value as justification for a price Price as an element in the construction of reality Notes 4 Forms of Valuation Structure and transformation group of forms of valuation Analytic and narrative presentations of things The problem of valuation by means of images On the reproduction of things Lacks, totalities, and scarcity Institutions and forms of valuation Structuralism and capitalism Notes
9 Part III Commodity Structures 5 The Standard Form The model for the standard form The standard form and industrial production Prototypes and specimens The proliferation of things without persons The internal tensions of the standard form The unease created by the standard form Notes 6 Standardization and Differentiation The historical dimension of the forms of valuation From trade in things to the circulation of commodities The effect of standardization on the constitution of forms of valuation Material economies, immaterial economies Notes 7 The Collection Form The modernity of the collection form Systematic collection as an arrangement for valuation Collectors’ items Price and value of collectors’ items The fields of collectables The structure of the collection form Notes 8 Collection and Enrichment The usefulness of useless things
