New books in my pile

1. Economic Lives: How Culture Shapes the Economy, by Viviana A. Zelizer, home page here.  From a browse I learned that many prostitutes spend their "dirty money" more quickly.

2. A Short History of Celebrity, by Fred Inglis, home page here, with chapter one pdf.

3. Valuing the Unique: The Economics of Singularities, by Lucien Karpik, from the French, chapter one pdf and home page.