Economics of IntangiblesNova Publishers, 2007 - 407 стор. Up to now, economics as a branch of social science has been concerned mainly to map the commercial and financial relations of Humanity, including a wide variety of institutions spawned to sustain livelihoods within these relations. Although these relationships, qua relations, are by definition intangible, the forms by which these relations are expressed - and in which they may even be quantified, predicted and managed - are all tangible. Thus we arrive at the tantalizing paradox wherein, for economists, tangibles seem to occupy the entire space of interest, even though that which has given rise to their very field in the first place are actually social relations that remain utterly intangible. this veil uncovers something very strange. To the extent that tangible economic activity takes quantifiable form, it is possible to generalize about the forms themselves and/or to verify them, without reference to any further information as to the intent, conscience or consciousness of those who gave rise to these activities in the first place. trumpeted as the economists' greatest success (as social scientists). This book presents the many quintessential elements of economics from all around the globe. |
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... business during the 1960s and 1970s was the supply of " replacement workers " , or scab labour , during legal strikes by unionised workers . Before that , it was prominently involved in the " labour spy " racket : entrapping union ...
... business during the 1960s and 1970s was the supply of " replacement workers " , or scab labour , during legal strikes by unionised workers . Before that , it was prominently involved in the " labour spy " racket : entrapping union ...
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... business corporations , the upward - only direction of accountability is justified on the basis that whatever takes place is ultimately ruled in order or out of order by the company's shareholders . The former is the justification based ...
... business corporations , the upward - only direction of accountability is justified on the basis that whatever takes place is ultimately ruled in order or out of order by the company's shareholders . The former is the justification based ...
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... business cycle " ( Schumpeter 1939 ) . Examples of how value - in - exchange and value - in - use form a unity of opposites are legion . Some obvious and well - known ones include : the value - in - use compared to the value- in ...
... business cycle " ( Schumpeter 1939 ) . Examples of how value - in - exchange and value - in - use form a unity of opposites are legion . Some obvious and well - known ones include : the value - in - use compared to the value- in ...
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... businesses such as shipping , where interest rates of between 20 % and 30 % prevailed . With the reign of Alexander the Great ( 336-323 BCE ) , the conquest of Asia Minor entailed an expenditure for maintaining his armies of about 20 ...
... businesses such as shipping , where interest rates of between 20 % and 30 % prevailed . With the reign of Alexander the Great ( 336-323 BCE ) , the conquest of Asia Minor entailed an expenditure for maintaining his armies of about 20 ...
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... business owner does to screw another few pennies of profit out of the powerless public . Jevons even suggested a mathematical model justifying his standpoint , arguing that the discrete choices of millions of economic actors may be ...
... business owner does to screw another few pennies of profit out of the powerless public . Jevons even suggested a mathematical model justifying his standpoint , arguing that the discrete choices of millions of economic actors may be ...
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Intangibles in the Big Picture Continued Information Technology and the Global System | 101 |
Tangibles in the Big Picture | 158 |
The Aphenomenal Model | 235 |
The New Synthesis | 291 |
Conclusion | 355 |
References and Bibliography | 357 |
Index | 385 |
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Сторінка 56 - By preferring the support of domestic to that of foreign industry, he intends only his own security; and by directing that industry in such a manner as its produce may be of the greatest value, he intends only his own gain, and he is in this, as in many other cases, led by an invisible hand to promote an end which was no part of his intention, v Nor is it always the worse for the society that it was no part of it.
Сторінка 330 - There is a tide in the affairs of men Which, taken at the flood, leads on to fortune; Omitted, all the voyage of their life Is bound in shallows and in miseries. On such a full sea are we now afloat; And we must take the current when it serves, Or lose our ventures.
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Сторінка 88 - Without revolutionising the mode of production, it only worsens the condition of the direct producers, turns them into mere wage-workers and proletarians under conditions worse than those under the immediate control of capital, and appropriates their...
Сторінка 302 - The essential features and requirements of the basic law of socialism might be formulated roughly in this way : the securing of the maximum satisfaction of the constantly rising material and cultural requirements of the whole of society through the continuous expansion and perfection of socialist production on the basis of higher techniques.
Сторінка 122 - ... whereas it cannot be disputed that the nature of the other species with which each has to compete, is at least as important, and generally a far more important element of success.