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Magical Capitalism : Enchantment, Spells, and Occult Practices in Contemporary Economies

Moeran, Brian (ed.); de Waal Malefyt, Timothy (ed.) - 2018

This volume of essays examines the ways in which magical practices are found in different aspects of contemporary capitalist societies. From contract law to science, by way of finance, business, marketing, advertising, cultural production, and the political economy in general, each chapter...

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A Starter on Support-Bargaining and Money-Bargaining in Twenty-Eight Digestible Bites

Spread, Patrick - 2018

This book provides an introduction to the theory of support-bargaining and money-bargaining. Support-bargaining arises from the propensity of all individuals to seek the support of those around them and is the underlying mechanism of democratic societies. It is also the underlying mechanism of...

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Economic Wealth Creation and the Social Division of Labour : Volume II: Network Economies

Gilles, Robert P. - 2019

economic policies can be adopted. Gilles provides new institutional concepts for wealth creation, such as network economies … formation of social divisions of labour through which economic wealth is created. Gilles also investigates the causes of …Chapter 1: Commodities, consumption and production -- Chapter 2: Wealth creation in primitive economies -- Chapter 3 …

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Suspicions of Markets : Critical Attacks from Aristotle to the Twenty-First Century

Rutherford, Donald - 2016

In this work, Rutherford reviews why Adam Smith, Hayek, Mises and others praised economic markets, with a view to understanding, in contrast, historical attacks on markets dating as far back as Aristotle. The market has long been criticized as an inappropriate method of allocation, encouraging...

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The Path to a Modern Economics : Dealing with the Complexity of Economic Systems

Schwardt, Henning - 2017

The book illustrates how the treatment of complexity in analytical frameworks shapes economic studies. It explores the ways economists make sense of our economic environment and where their differences in interpretations of economic issues and policy proposals are rooted. Schwardt examines...

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How Digital Communication Technology Shapes Markets : Redefining Competition, Building Cooperation

Bhatt, Swati - 2017

This Palgrave Pivot explores how communication technology such as the Internet has changed the nature of trade, focusing especially on economy-wide reductions in company size (granularity) and the role of retailers (disintermediation). By increasing access to comparative data, influencing...

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The Bad Faith in the Free Market : The Radical Promise of Existential Freedom

Bloom, Peter - 2018

Innovatively combining existentialist philosophy with cutting edge post-structuralist and psychoanalytic perspectives, this book boldly reconsiders market freedom. Bloom argues that present day capitalism has robbed us of our individual and collective ability to imagine and implement alternative...

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Employers’ Economics versus Employees’ Economy : How Adam Smith’s Legacy Obscures Public Investment in the Private Sector

McDermott, John F. M. - 2017

This book argues that economic activity in the public sphere now underwrites private corporations, and rejects rigid adherence to traditional economic theories that no longer apply. Adam Smith's widely used "merchant's model" assumes that most investment is private, when in fact research...

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Principles of Economics for a Post-Meltdown World

Komlos, John - 2016 - 1st ed. 2016

Introduction -- Basic Concepts -- Micro: Supply and Demand in the Product Markets -- Micro: Supply and Demand in the Factor Markets -- Applications of Economic Principles -- Macroeconomics Economic Growth and Business Cycles -- Growth, Development and the Global Economy -- Unemployment,...

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Bauwirtschaft und Konjunktur : Bedeutung und Auswirkung staatlicher Nachfragesteuerung auf die Bauwirtschaft

Brömer, Katrin - 2015

Definition und Charakterisierung der Bauwirtschaft -- Konjunkturtheorie und Bauwirtschaft -- Konjunkturfördermaßnahmen in Deutschland seit 1960 -- Empirische Untersuchung der allokativen Wirkungen der Konjunkturpakete I und II auf das Baugewerbe.

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