Assetization as a mode of techno-economic governance: Knowledge, education and personal data in the UN's System of National Accounts

Abstract

Assets are made through the configuration of technoscientific and politicaleconomic (or techno-economic) relations, claims and practices; a process increasingly conceptualized as 'assetization'.The UN's System of National Accounts (SNA)a set of national accounting standardsdefines assets as 'entities that must be owned by some unit, or units, and from which economic benefits are derived by their owner(s) by holding or using them over a period of time'.Accounting standards like the SNA are implicated in the construction of assets through their 'extension of the asset boundary', which happens periodically as accounting standards are revised and updated to better reflect changing business practices.Assetization, then, entails more than an analysis of the transformation

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