While the shipping container has been hyped as most potent symbol of global trade, it is simultaneously a unit measure, medium exchange, and material abstraction heterogeneous use value. This article places its anonymized cargo part everyday logistics commodity circulation in Spanish Port Algeciras Bay—a transshipment hub at Strait Gibraltar. By disentangling container’s multiple repertoires, t...

Even though the interaction of intrinsic motivation and concerns for social approval has important implications both for crowding out of intrinsic motivation through incentives and for producer choices, little is known about this interaction empirically. We present a laboratory experiment that provides evidence of a relevant interaction effect in the context of ethical consumption. We elicit a ...