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Does height affect labor supply? Implications of product variety and caloric needs

Micheli, Martin - 2015

well-documented in the literature. Accepting the utilitarian perspective and assuming that height does not affect utility … individual's income but also utility from consumption. Higher caloric needs of tall individuals should result in higher …

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Do People Seek to Maximize Their Subjective Well‐Being?

Fleurbaey, Marc; Schwandt, Hannes - 2015

In a new survey we ask respondents, after a standard Subjective Well‐Being (SWB) question, if they can think of changes in their lives that would improve their SWB score. If the SWB score is just one argument among others in the respondents' goals in life, they should easily find ways to...

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What is the Value of Entrepreneurship? A Review of Recent Research

van Praag, C. Mirjam; Versloot, Peter H. - 2007

group’? A fourth type of contribution studied is the role of entrepreneurship in increasing individuals’ utility levels …

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Why and How Identity Should Influence Utility

Wichardt, Philipp C. - 2007

. Furthermore, we discuss how such a preference can be integrated in the modelling of utility in order to account for the …

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Information, evolution and utility

Swinkels, Jeroen M.; Samuelson, Larry - In: Theoretical Economics 1 (2006) 1, pp. 119-142

Human utility embodies a number of seemingly irrational aspects. The leading example in this paper is that utilities … of our utility functions. …

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Capital as Power: Toward a New Cosmology of Capitalism

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - In: Real-World Economics Review (2012) 61, pp. 65-84

absolute, it is relative. It has little to do with utility or abstract labour, and it extends far beyond machines and …

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Capital as Power: Toward a New Cosmology of Capitalism

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2010

entity, but a symbolic quantification of power. Capital has little to do with utility or abstract labor, and it extends far …

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Capital as Power. A Study of Order and Creorder

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - 2009

quantification of power. It has little to do with utility or abstract labour, and it extends far beyond machines and production lines …

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Capital Accumulation: Breaking the Dualism of "Economics" and "Politics"

Nitzan, Jonathan; Bichler, Shimshon - In: Global Political Economy: Contemporary Theories, (pp. 67-88). 2000

This chapter outlines the main problems of capital theory, key issues which need to be resolved, and the way in which an alternative concept of capital may affect the future evolution of IPE. Briefly, existing theories of capital can be classified into three groups, based on their relationship...

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Elementary Particles of the Capitalist Mode of Power

Bichler, Shimshon; Nitzan, Jonathan - 2006

Theories of society, as of nature, are characterized by their elementary particles. The elementary particle of neoclassical economics is the util. The elementary particle of classical Marxism is abstract labour. These elementary particles represent material quanta. They are deemed useful because...

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