Economics of IntangiblesNova Publishers, 2007 - 407 pàgines 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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... possible to generalise 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 . This ...
... possible to generalise 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 . This ...
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... is a mutual fund's sales pitch offering a " no lose " proposition to be believed as true or even possible in the first place ? Rendering the pathway to achieving " something for nothing " more intangible does Introduction 3.
... is a mutual fund's sales pitch offering a " no lose " proposition to be believed as true or even possible in the first place ? Rendering the pathway to achieving " something for nothing " more intangible does Introduction 3.
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... possible to renovate some badly run - down parts of this edifice . Classical and neoclassical theory were obsessed with the problem of accounting for economic profit and the societal surplus generated as a result of the production of ...
... possible to renovate some badly run - down parts of this edifice . Classical and neoclassical theory were obsessed with the problem of accounting for economic profit and the societal surplus generated as a result of the production of ...
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... possible to spread public opinion that would justify the most brutal exploitation and plunder of colonies in Asia , Africa and Latin America as simply " Nature's way " of " improving the species " . There was no interest whatsoever here ...
... possible to spread public opinion that would justify the most brutal exploitation and plunder of colonies in Asia , Africa and Latin America as simply " Nature's way " of " improving the species " . There was no interest whatsoever here ...
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... possible to begin to think and to work in terms of what is essentially knowledge - based development - starting , paradoxically enough , in some of the most allegedly " underdeveloped " parts of the world . What is being mooted is ...
... possible to begin to think and to work in terms of what is essentially knowledge - based development - starting , paradoxically enough , in some of the most allegedly " underdeveloped " parts of the world . What is being mooted is ...
Continguts
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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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Passatges populars
Pàgina 56 - ... every individual necessarily labours to render the annual revenue of the society as great as he can. He generally, indeed, neither intends to promote the public interest, nor knows how much he is promoting it.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 58 - God Must think it exceedingly odd If he finds that this tree Continues to be When there's no one about in the Quad'.
Pàgina 56 - I have never known much good done by those who affected to trade for the public good. It is an affectation, indeed, not very common among merchants, and very few words need be employed in dissuading them from it.
Pàgina 92 - The wealth of those societies in which the capitalist mode of production prevails, presents itself as "an immense accumulation of commodities," its unit being a single commodity.
Pàgina 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...
Pàgina 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.
Pàgina 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.