Utility, Time Preference and Myopia
... all too easily by those who had no respect for the spirit of free enterprise. The philosophy of Adam Smith appeals greatly to practical men who are not used to wasting their time on idle speculations. Its appeal has remained undiminished to the present day. Part of its strength lies in the fact that ...
... all too easily by those who had no respect for the spirit of free enterprise. The philosophy of Adam Smith appeals greatly to practical men who are not used to wasting their time on idle speculations. Its appeal has remained undiminished to the present day. Part of its strength lies in the fact that ...
Understanding the Political Economy of Enforced Dependency in
... analysis of how modern money and debt contribute to enforcing dependency, in part by making economic growth requisite for the functioning of the capitalist order. I then explore how the growth requirement built into the global economy itself contributes to enforcing dependency. This brief expositio ...
... analysis of how modern money and debt contribute to enforcing dependency, in part by making economic growth requisite for the functioning of the capitalist order. I then explore how the growth requirement built into the global economy itself contributes to enforcing dependency. This brief expositio ...
anthropology, mathematics, kinship
... patterns are absent from human behavior, and that all anthropologists can or should do is describe and interpret the fragments of another’s cultural world they are privileged to witness. If the focus remains not within a culture but across all cultures, the question remains whether specific patterns ...
... patterns are absent from human behavior, and that all anthropologists can or should do is describe and interpret the fragments of another’s cultural world they are privileged to witness. If the focus remains not within a culture but across all cultures, the question remains whether specific patterns ...
Economic Development and Family Structure: from Pater Familias to
... diminished status of the elderly. Moreover, a contribution of our analysis is to provide a suitable analytical framework to assess the relative role of economic and cultural factors in causing the shift in intergenerational living arrangements. To this end, we build an overlapping generation model ...
... diminished status of the elderly. Moreover, a contribution of our analysis is to provide a suitable analytical framework to assess the relative role of economic and cultural factors in causing the shift in intergenerational living arrangements. To this end, we build an overlapping generation model ...
flexible capitalism
... that social life in contemporary work regimes appears forever more ‘disembedded’ (Polanyi 2001), or to paraphrase Marx (1990), that it appears to reach forever more ‘alienating commodity forms’. What this familiarity suggests, however, is that the current concern may be partly shaped by what Maurer ...
... that social life in contemporary work regimes appears forever more ‘disembedded’ (Polanyi 2001), or to paraphrase Marx (1990), that it appears to reach forever more ‘alienating commodity forms’. What this familiarity suggests, however, is that the current concern may be partly shaped by what Maurer ...
ASSOCIATION FOR SOCIAL ECONOMICS INTERVIEW SERIES
... Interview of John Davis by Jonathan Wight John B. Davis is Professor of Economics, Marquette University, and Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam, is author of Keynes’s Philosophical Development (Cambridge, 1994), The Theory of the Individual in Economics (Routledge, 2003), Individuals an ...
... Interview of John Davis by Jonathan Wight John B. Davis is Professor of Economics, Marquette University, and Professor of Economics, University of Amsterdam, is author of Keynes’s Philosophical Development (Cambridge, 1994), The Theory of the Individual in Economics (Routledge, 2003), Individuals an ...
Chapter 9: Environment and the Economy
... business investments in efficiency are in place. These incentives have stimulated new innovations in resource efficient production methods that are widely used. All companies, and their investors, can measure and benchmark their lifecycle resource efficiency. Economic growth and wellbeing is decoupl ...
... business investments in efficiency are in place. These incentives have stimulated new innovations in resource efficient production methods that are widely used. All companies, and their investors, can measure and benchmark their lifecycle resource efficiency. Economic growth and wellbeing is decoupl ...
Why Are There So Many Communication Theories?
... for documentation, textual analysis, and the like, although such technological developments have certainly occurred and are perhaps not without their own importance. What I wish to emphasize is that the humanities have become increasingly theoretical. If in the past we thought that the humanities we ...
... for documentation, textual analysis, and the like, although such technological developments have certainly occurred and are perhaps not without their own importance. What I wish to emphasize is that the humanities have become increasingly theoretical. If in the past we thought that the humanities we ...
Duncan Foley Socialist alternatives to capitalism II: Vienna to Santa Fe
... This bottom-up vision of social organization resonates with important political currents of the late twentieth century. The “New Left” movements of the nineteen-sixties rebelled against the centralizing and regimenting tendencies of “Old Left” socialism and communism by calling for decentralization, ...
... This bottom-up vision of social organization resonates with important political currents of the late twentieth century. The “New Left” movements of the nineteen-sixties rebelled against the centralizing and regimenting tendencies of “Old Left” socialism and communism by calling for decentralization, ...
Planned economic contraction: the emerging
... as legal representation or accounting, are treated no differently from tangible ‘goods,’ such as sacks of potatoes or truckloads of iron (Cobb et al, 1995). All that matters is that a commodity ...
... as legal representation or accounting, are treated no differently from tangible ‘goods,’ such as sacks of potatoes or truckloads of iron (Cobb et al, 1995). All that matters is that a commodity ...
Cloak, F.T., Jr. 1976b
... cultural behaviors and products on the other. Equivocal use of the word 'social', however, may be better overcome by shunning one use altogether. 'Social' properly refers to behaviors which elicit or are elicited by behaviors of other organisms, generally of the same species, and to certain products ...
... cultural behaviors and products on the other. Equivocal use of the word 'social', however, may be better overcome by shunning one use altogether. 'Social' properly refers to behaviors which elicit or are elicited by behaviors of other organisms, generally of the same species, and to certain products ...
Contemporary Developments in International Relations Theory
... international relations as a subfield of that enterprise - should proceed along purely empirical, positivist lines. "To explain a puzzling set of facts was taken to be a matter of showing that their occurrence can be deduced and hence predicted from a known natural or at least statistical law. The p ...
... international relations as a subfield of that enterprise - should proceed along purely empirical, positivist lines. "To explain a puzzling set of facts was taken to be a matter of showing that their occurrence can be deduced and hence predicted from a known natural or at least statistical law. The p ...
The many channels of the relationships between state intervention
... developing countries and of poverty traps. These concepts may justify government intervention. They have come back at the forefront in modern development theory (Hoff, 2000). These theorists of the WWII period viewed growth as a process that requires systemic reallocation of production factors from ...
... developing countries and of poverty traps. These concepts may justify government intervention. They have come back at the forefront in modern development theory (Hoff, 2000). These theorists of the WWII period viewed growth as a process that requires systemic reallocation of production factors from ...
