Performance Complex: Competition and Competitions in Social Life

by David Stark

What's valuable?

Market competition provides one kind of answer. Competitions offer another. On one side, competition is an ongoing and seemingly endless process of pricings; on the other, competitions are discrete and bounded in time and location, with entry rules, judges, scores, and prizes. This book examines what happens when ever more activities in domains of everyday life are evaluated and experienced in terms of performance metrics...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0198861664
• ISBN13: 9780198861669
• Release Date: September 2020
• Publisher: Oxford University Press (UK)
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.1" x 9.3"