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Information and communication technologies are one of the most pervasive technologies in the world, second only to 'human intelligence' or the human brain. Thus, understanding the factors that determine the diffusion of new technologies across african countries is important to understanding the...
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Turkey is one of the countries with significant potential in geothermal energy. It is estimated that if Turkey utilizes all of her geothermal potential, she can meet 14% of her total energy need (heat and electricity) from geothermal sources. Therefore, today geothermal energy is an attractive...
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approach, allowing ongoing maintenance, is presented here. All steps of the process are presented and then integrated via a …
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proportion of the outstanding capital stock, has several fundamental shortcomings. It derives from a model founded on assumptions … organization and other neighboring fields to economics that treat the durability of capital goods as a choice variable. It ignores … continues to dominate mainstream capital theory, most probably because of: a) its simplicity, and b) the lack of a model that …
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forces like utilization, maintenance and repair, the prices of new capital goods, etc., and b) while the approximation of the … proportionality, which asserts that depreciation is proportional to the outstanding capital stock. All available evidence shows that … capital and the useful lives of its components. For this reason, it is concluded that, the sooner this theorem is replaced by …
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This paper traces the evolution of the concept of capital in economic literature––from the ‘fund’ concept prevalent in … pre-classical and classical writings to the stress on ‘physical capital’ in neoclassical literature and finally to ‘human … capital’ in endogenous growth theory. While financial capital is occupying a key role in research presently in the context of …
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owners acquired the necessary capital for start-up and growth thereafter. The paper was designed within the quantitative and … revealed that although African immigrants are characteristically at the disadvantage when it comes to accessing capital from … to the ability to raise capital, we found that a varying range of start-up capital was utilised, which tended to vary …
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This is a proposal to restate the theory of capital along critical Marxian lines aimed at providing a better … integration of the theory of capital with the theory of money and finance. The time value of money must be properly accounted for … explicit and implicit cost components, including the financial cost of capital. MEV should not be confused with MELT, the ‘New …
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’s theoretical treatment of value and capital. It implies the abandonment of the ‘pure’ labour theory of value of the young Marx in … favour of a ‘mixed’ labour-and capital theory of value reflecting the different theoretical perspective shown by the mature … capital is criticized, for its disregard of the financial cost of invested capital. Foley’s ‘New Interpretation’ of Marx …
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This is a paper on the theory of capital. It deals with the role of capital in a cost-of-production theory of value in … which both labour and capital are directly productive. The guidelines of an analytical method are proposed. Marx’s ‘monetary … out the need to abandon the labour theory of value and to rely on a broader labour-and-capital monetary theoretical …
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