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title: The Value of Values
date: 2023-12-29
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In *How Infrastructure Works*, Deb Chachra notes the confusion potential in uses of the term “public good,” and works to distinguish its economic definition (goods that are non-rivalrous and non-excludable) from what she terms its “*moral* sense” (110). That we need to make such a distinction says a lot about our culture, and about the choices we make in relation to our infrastructures -- what's *worth* investing in, and on whose behalf. How might we begin to promote the kinds of collective decision-making in our institutions and our projects that can begin to shift our focus from value to values?