Value as a social fact

an adverbial approach

Louis Quéré

pp. 157-177

in: Daniel Cefaï, Martin Endreß, Stefan Nicolae, Bénédicte Zimmermann (eds), Sociology of valuation and evaluation, Human Studies 38 (1), 2015.

Abstract

This paper outlines an adverbial approach of value, which it proposes as an alternative to a "nominalistic" one. It starts from a review of a recent book of a French economist, André Orléan, who develops, from the instance of money, a theory of value which he thinks valid for all social values. The paper criticizes the main presuppositions of Orléan's model of value and tries to elaborate a more praxeological and a more social one.