Towards Community Valuation

Prices and costs are ubiquitous in our modern economic society. There is hardly a transaction that does not involve prices and some consideration of costs. Indeed, prices are so deeply etched in our lexicon about accounting, exchange, and the financial environment that it is almost unimaginable to conceive of an economy without them. Operating much like the tapestry of language, prices predefine anticipated transactions, create nominal categories for classification and prioritization, and legitimize transactions as appropriate representations of “real-world” economic events…