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Lenz, Rainer - In: Crowdfunding Jahrbuch 2015. 2015

Bei der Suche nach etwas mehr Rendite in Zeiten niedriger Zinsen wenden sich Kleinanleger verstärkt hin zum Crowdfunding. Doch Ertrag und Risiko sind auch im Crowdfunding sowie bei allen anderen Finanzgeschäften strikt positiv miteinander korreliert. Das heißt, der Investor kann durch...

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Cumulative Causation

Jackson, William A. - In: International Encyclopedia of Human Geography, 2nd edn, (pp. 131-134). 2020

Cumulative causation arises when a process is self-reinforcing and grows ever stronger, so that it does not equilibrate. It will continue indefinitely unless it is checked by outside intervention or leads to a crisis and systemic breakdown. Ideas of cumulative causation have numerous...

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Fight to Win! Tools for Confronting Capital

Monaghan, Jeffrey; Cochrane, David Troy - In: In The Accumulation of Freedom: Writings on Anarchist …, (pp. 95-116). 2012

tactic. In this chapter we make use of the capital-as-power theory of value and capital in a way that informs and supports …

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Making it in China: The determinants of economic success in a socialist market system

Marandici, Ion - In: Socialism, Capitalism and Alternatives: Area Studies …, (pp. 89-107). 2019

China's politicians like to emphasise that they are building a socialist market economy based on the ideology of socialism with Chinese characteristics. Unlike other post-communist transitions to capitalism, China's radical economic transformations during the neo-liberal era did not generate a...

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The Political Economy of Hollywood: Capitalist Power and Cultural Production; introduction

McMahon, James - In: The Political Economy of Hollywood: Capitalist Power …, (pp. 1-10). 2022

that offer financing, to effectively stand between film production and the market. This book analyses the power structure … filmmaking. Controlling the ways people make or watch films, the book argues, is a key element of Hollywood’s capitalist power …. Capitalist power—the ability to control, modify, and, sometimes, limit social creation through the rights of ownership—is the …

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Capitalism, Money and Inequality in the World

Di Muzio, Tim - In: Transitioning to Reduced Inequalities, (pp. 63-82). 2023

There is little doubt that, in the last hundred years or so, progress has been made in lifting more people out of extreme poverty. Yet, considerable economic inequalities both within and between nations persists and, as recent work has shown, if the rate of return on capital surpasses the rate...

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From Operation Warp Speed to TRIPS. Vaccines as Assets

Andersen, Tatiana - In: Covid-19 and the Global Political Economy. Crises in …, (pp. 122-135). 2022

This chapter examines the political economy of biopharmaceutical innovation, focusing primarily on vaccines in the Covid-19 pandemic. This analysis aims to make visible the deep entanglements that entrench an extractive and dysfunctional innovation ecosystem, calcifying inequities in global...

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Economic Growth in the Potterian Economy

Snir, Avichai; Levy, Daniel - In: The Law and Harry Potter, (pp. 211-236). 2010

We study the economic structure of the life of Harry Potter and his co-actors as an economic model that governs the social organization of their economic activities. Our goal is to study and understand the internal consistency of the Potterian economic model and explore the relationships between...

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Ökonomie und Staat

Mause, Karsten - In: Handbuch Staat, (pp. 211-221). 2018

Dieser Beitrag gibt einen Überblick über das Forschungsgebiet "Politische Ökonomie", in dem Politikwissenschaftler, Ökonomen und andere Sozialwissenschaftler mittels verschiedener Theorien und Methoden das Verhältnis von Ökonomie und Staat untersuchen. In einem empirisch-analytischen Zweig...

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Daseinsvorsorge

Mause, Karsten - In: Handbuch Staat, (pp. 415-421). 2018

Unter dem Begriff der staatlichen bzw. öffentlichen "Daseinsvorsorge" wird in Politik und Gesellschaftswissenschaften üblicherweise verstanden, dass der Staat sicherstellt, dass der Bevölkerung eines Gemeinwesens bestimmte Güter und Dienstleistungen zur Verfügung stehen, die für das...

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