Valuation may refer to:
Economics
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Valuation (finance), the determination of the economic value of an asset or liability
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Real estate appraisal, sometimes called ''property valuation'' (especially in
British English), the appraisal of land or buildings
*A distinction between
real prices and ideal prices in
Marxist theory
Marxist philosophy or Marxist theory are works in philosophy that are strongly influenced by Karl Marx's materialist approach to theory, or works written by Marxists. Marxist philosophy may be broadly divided into Western Marxism, which drew fro ...
.
*The term valuation function is often used as a synonym to
utility function.
*The
sociology of valuation
The sociology of valuation (sometimes "valuation studies") is an emerging area of study focusing on the tools, models, processes, politics, cultural differences and other inputs and outcomes of valuation.
Current research
The area has strong ...
also takes economic valuation practices as an object of study.
* ''
Valuation: Measuring and Managing the Value of Companies''
Mathematics
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Valuation (algebra), a measure of multiplicity
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p-adic valuation, a special case
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Valuation (geometry), a generalization of finitely-additive measures
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Valuation (logic), an operation on well-formed formulas with the semantics of evaluation
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Valuation (measure theory) In measure theory, or at least in the approach to it via the domain theory, a valuation is a Map (mathematics), map from the class of open sets of a topological space to the set of positive number, positive real numbers including infinity, with cert ...
, a tool for constructing outer measures
Other uses
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Valuation (ethics)
In ethics and social sciences, value denotes the degree of importance of something or action, with the aim of determining which actions are best to do or what way is best to live ( normative ethics in ethics), or to describe the significance of di ...
, the determination of the ethic or philosophic value of an object
* For personal valuation, see
dignity
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