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dc.contributor.authorMason, Arthur
dc.date.accessioned2019-08-27T09:08:10Z
dc.date.available2019-08-27T09:08:10Z
dc.date.created2019-03-12T20:39:16Z
dc.date.issued2019
dc.identifier.citationJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institute. 2019, .nb_NO
dc.identifier.issn1359-0987
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11250/2611134
dc.description.abstractShifts in the terrain of energy politics have given rise to consultant experts who produce and distributeknowledge of energy futures. Drawing on fieldwork at executive roundtables in global cities acrossNorth America, this essay examines the consolidation of this form of expertise and the opulent settingsin which it is distributed. By exploring the role of aesthetic judgement in market-orientateddecision-making, it contributes to anthropological work on elites, expertise, and energy ethics byhighlighting the relationship between credibility and luxury. The essay also considers the enrolment ofthe expert in a kind of virtue ethics, whereby adherence to neoclassical economic principles is taken tobe a character trait worthy of emulation. While clients may not look to consultants for advice coded interms of ethics, I argue that they regard the person-based qualities of consultants as proxies for theirability to recommend a judicious course of action. By adopting this analytic, the essay sheds new lighton the confidence that clients place in consultants by drawing out the relationship betweendepersonalized, quantitative approaches to energy markets and the virtue of the persons who proposethem.nb_NO
dc.language.isoengnb_NO
dc.publisherRoyal Anthropological Institutenb_NO
dc.titleConsulting virtue: from judgement to decision-making in the natural gas industrynb_NO
dc.typeJournal articlenb_NO
dc.typePeer reviewednb_NO
dc.description.versionpublishedVersionnb_NO
dc.source.pagenumber16nb_NO
dc.source.journalJournal of the Royal Anthropological Institutenb_NO
dc.identifier.doi10.1111/1467-9655.13018
dc.identifier.cristin1684315
dc.description.localcodeThis chapter will not be available due to copyright restrictions. © Royal Anthropological Institute 2019nb_NO
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cristin.unitnameInstitutt for sosialantropologi
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