Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction : making things valuable / Martin Kornberger, Lise Justesen, Anders Koed Madsen, and Jan Mouritsen -- Noticing numbers : how quantification changes what we see and what we don't / Wendy Nelson Espeland and Stacy E. Lom -- Value in the age of doubt : accounting as a maieutic machine / Paolo Quattrone -- Rating reports as figuring documents : how credit rating agencies build scenarios of the future / Pierre Pénet -- Subitizing practices and market decisions : the role of simple graphs in business valuations / Neil Pollock and Gian Marco Campagnolo -- Capitalization devices : business models and the renewal of markets / Liliana Doganova and Fabian Muniesa -- Valuable assemblages--or assembling values / Trine Pallesen -- Valuation devices' orientation to each other : imitation and differentiation among devices valuing companies' social and environmental performance / Sabina Du Rietz -- What is a catastrophe model worth? : the (e)valuation practices of data analysts in insurance companies / Laure Cabantous and Théodora Dupont-Courtade -- The enactment of economic things : the objects of insurance / José Ossandón -- The politics of values : a case study of 'conflict-free' gold / Juliane Reinecke -- Notes on object valuation / Celia Lury and Noortje Marres -- Tracing data--paying attention : interpreting digital methods through valuation studies and Gibson's theory of perception / Anders Koed Madsen.

Addresses the question of valuation theoretically and through empirical analysts of diverse objects of valuations such as university rankings, ice skating scoring, wind power, insurance, gold, and big data.