Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Languages : en
Pages : 852
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The Athenæum
Author: James Silk Buckingham
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Category :
Languages : en
Pages : 852
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Publisher:
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Languages : en
Pages : 852
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The Empire of Value
Author: Andre Orlean
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262549581
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
An argument that conceiving of economic value as a social force makes it possible to develop a new and more powerful theory of market behavior. With the advent of the 2007–2008 financial crisis, the economics profession itself entered into a crisis of legitimacy from which it has yet to emerge. Despite the obviousness of their failures, however, economists continue to rely on the same methods and to proceed from the same underlying assumptions. André Orléan challenges the neoclassical paradigm in this book, with a new way of thinking about perhaps its most fundamental concept, economic value. Orléan argues that value is not bound up with labor, or utility, or any other property that preexists market exchange. Economic value, he contends, is a social force whose vast sphere of influence, amounting to a kind of empire, extends to every aspect of economic life. Markets are based on the identification of value with money, and exchange value can only be regarded as a social institution. Financial markets, for example, instead of defining an extrinsic, objective value for securities, act as a mechanism for arriving at a reference price that will be accepted by all investors. What economists must therefore study, Orléan urges, is the hold that value has over individuals and how it shapes their perceptions and behavior. Awarded the prestigious Prix Paul Ricoeur on its original publication in France in 2011, The Empire of Value has been substantially revised and enlarged for this edition, with an entirely new section discussing the financial crisis of 2007–2008.
Publisher: MIT Press
ISBN: 0262549581
Category : Business & Economics
Languages : en
Pages : 361
Book Description
An argument that conceiving of economic value as a social force makes it possible to develop a new and more powerful theory of market behavior. With the advent of the 2007–2008 financial crisis, the economics profession itself entered into a crisis of legitimacy from which it has yet to emerge. Despite the obviousness of their failures, however, economists continue to rely on the same methods and to proceed from the same underlying assumptions. André Orléan challenges the neoclassical paradigm in this book, with a new way of thinking about perhaps its most fundamental concept, economic value. Orléan argues that value is not bound up with labor, or utility, or any other property that preexists market exchange. Economic value, he contends, is a social force whose vast sphere of influence, amounting to a kind of empire, extends to every aspect of economic life. Markets are based on the identification of value with money, and exchange value can only be regarded as a social institution. Financial markets, for example, instead of defining an extrinsic, objective value for securities, act as a mechanism for arriving at a reference price that will be accepted by all investors. What economists must therefore study, Orléan urges, is the hold that value has over individuals and how it shapes their perceptions and behavior. Awarded the prestigious Prix Paul Ricoeur on its original publication in France in 2011, The Empire of Value has been substantially revised and enlarged for this edition, with an entirely new section discussing the financial crisis of 2007–2008.
Athenaeum and Literary Chronicle
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Languages : en
Pages : 866
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Languages : en
Pages : 866
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The Monthly Review
Author: Sir Henry John Newbolt
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Category : Art
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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The Athenaeum
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 946
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Category : Arts
Languages : en
Pages : 946
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British Colonial Theories 1570-1850
Author: Klaus E. Knorr
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487591012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The purpose of this study is to present and examine significant British colonial theories on the advantages and disadvantages resulting to the mother country from the establishment and maintenance of overseas colonies. For what reasons was the building and preservation of Empire thought profitable or unprofitable to the British nation? Professor Knorr has performed a major service in providing a selection of representative statements in the course of a discussion which proceeds by chronological periods and also by important topics from contemporary events. The original printing of this work, published in 1944, was received with enthusiastic reviews and went out of print in a few years. An equally warm welcome can be predicted now.
Publisher: University of Toronto Press
ISBN: 1487591012
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 644
Book Description
The purpose of this study is to present and examine significant British colonial theories on the advantages and disadvantages resulting to the mother country from the establishment and maintenance of overseas colonies. For what reasons was the building and preservation of Empire thought profitable or unprofitable to the British nation? Professor Knorr has performed a major service in providing a selection of representative statements in the course of a discussion which proceeds by chronological periods and also by important topics from contemporary events. The original printing of this work, published in 1944, was received with enthusiastic reviews and went out of print in a few years. An equally warm welcome can be predicted now.
Rhodesia of Today
Author: Edward Frederick Knight
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Category : Mashonaland
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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Category : Mashonaland
Languages : en
Pages : 194
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The Playground of Europe
Author: Leslie Stephen
Publisher: London ; New York : Longmans, Green and Company
ISBN:
Category : Alps
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Publisher: London ; New York : Longmans, Green and Company
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Category : Alps
Languages : en
Pages : 394
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Essays, Reviews, and Addresses
Author: James Martineau
Publisher: London ; New York : Longmans, Green
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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Publisher: London ; New York : Longmans, Green
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Category : Theology
Languages : en
Pages : 620
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The Readers' Guide and Students' Review
Author: Hampstead Public Libraries (London, England)
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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Publisher:
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Category : Libraries
Languages : en
Pages : 52
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