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Feeling Good and Financing Impact: Affective Judgments as a Tool for Social Investing
Sich gut fühlen und finanzielle Wirkung erzielen: Affektive Urteile als Instrument für soziale Investitionen
Abstract This article analyzes how moralized repertoires get linked to affective judgments to form the early-stage social impact investor, a financial subject who invests in startups for both profit and positive social impact. It draws on interviews with and observations of investors in San Diego, California... view more
This article analyzes how moralized repertoires get linked to affective judgments to form the early-stage social impact investor, a financial subject who invests in startups for both profit and positive social impact. It draws on interviews with and observations of investors in San Diego, California. The financialization of social activities generally proceeds by quantification and commensuration. However, for startups, nothing yet exists to quantify. Instead, investors narrate ethical conversions, and evaluate through affective knowing and encounters with entrepreneurs. Simultaneously, they draw on financial skills, technologies, and disciplines to grow these startups. Startups must soon quantify their social impact to attract bigger investors, suggesting how affective and moralized forms of relation may persist, even when subsumed within larger financial flows governed by quantified reasoning.... view less
Keywords
social investment; United States of America; value; value-orientation; quantification; investor; affectivity; social effects; new economy; funding; fundraising
Classification
Financial Planning, Accountancy
Free Keywords
Social impact investing; Financialization; angel investing; affect; quantification; United States; social value
Document language
English
Publication Year
2020
Page/Pages
p. 95-116
Journal
Historical Social Research, 45 (2020) 3
ISSN
0172-6404
Status
Published Version; peer reviewed