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consequences of increased life expectancy for democracy and capitalism - including the concepts of society for all ages, silver …
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There is no doubt; consumer credits are more and more present in the economic life of the Chileans. It is enough to go to any shopping mall, supermarket or even medical centre to realize that today it is possible to buy almost everything with some kind of loan. The expansion of consumer credit...
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The culture - economy dialectic (CED), the opposition of the concepts and phenomena of culture and economy, is one of the most important notions in the modern history of ideas. Both the disciplinary boundaries and much theoretical thought in social science are strongly influenced or even...
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Abstract: This paper deals with similarities and differences between new economic sociology (NES) and new institu-tional economics (NIE). We start with brief reports on the basic ideas of NES and NIE. Regarding the latter, we concentrate on NIE in the sense of Oliver Williamson who introduced...
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A new theory of capitalism is suggested. Its key moments and general logic are presented. This theory is based on the … competition" are admitted to be a functional norm of capitalism. Respectively, an equilibrium and "perfect competition" are …
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"As we look over the country today we see two classes of people. The excessively rich and the abject poor, and between them is a gulf ever deepening, ever widening, and the ranks of the poor are continually being recruited from a third class, the well-to-do, which class is rapidly disappearing...
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After the demise of “real” socialism and the decline of “western” socialism, socialism can be salvaged as a social preference system oriented towards equality and social justice, to be implemented without systemic constraints in the organizational and institutional sense. At the same...
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commoditisation of labour power assuming the form of wage labour is specific to capitalism and the sole source of surplus value. This … paper, drawing from various strands of Marxian literature, argues that capitalism never existed in isolation in ‘pure’ and … signifies a confluence of separate processes, it overdetermines the existence and stability of capitalism by a complex …
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implications are (b) the emergence of a new social formation that may be called World Market Capitalism, which has a vastly …
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The transition of former socialist countries to capitalist economic system is modelled for the period between 1989 and 2007. The transition is entirely defined by three empirical parameters and the model describes only the evolution of real GDP per capita since the start of the disintegration of...
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