Description: Current Economy : Electricity Markets and Techno-economics, Hardcover by Ozden-schilling, Canay, ISBN 1503612279, ISBN-13 9781503612273, Like New Used, Free shipping in the US "Electricity is a quirky commodity: more often than not, it cannot be stored, transported except through dedicated routes, or imported from overseas. Before lighting up our homes, it changes hands through specialized electricity markets that rely on engineering expertise to be traded competitively while respecting the physical requirements of the electric grid. The Current Economy is an ethnography of electricity markets in the United States that shows the heterogenous and technologically inflected nature of economic expertise today. Based on ethnographic fieldwork among market data analysts, electric grid engineers, and citizen activists, this book provides a deep dive into the convoluted economy of electricity and its reverberations throughout daily life. Canay èOzden-Schilling argues that many of the economic formations in everyday life come from work cultures rarely suspected of doing economic work: cultures of science, technology, and engineering that often do not have a claim to economic theory or practice, yet nonetheless dictate forms of economic activity. Contributing to economic anthropology, science and technology studies, energy studies, and the anthropology of expertise, this book is a map to the everyday infrastructures of economy and energy into which we are plugged as denizens of a technological world"--
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Book Title: Current Economy : Electricity Markets and Techno-economics
Number of Pages: 224 Pages
Publication Name: Current Economy : Electricity Markets and Techno-Economics
Language: English
Publisher: Stanford University Press
Item Height: 0.8 in
Publication Year: 2021
Subject: Sociology / General, Anthropology / Cultural & Social, Economics / General, Industries / Energy
Type: Textbook
Item Weight: 16.9 Oz
Item Length: 9.3 in
Author: Canay Özden-Schilling
Subject Area: Social Science, Business & Economics
Item Width: 7.3 in
Format: Hardcover
