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Showing 1 to 8 of 8 for “"Theories of value"”.
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Cohering with the Crowd: How Audiences Shape the Quasi-Scientific Process of Entrepreneurship
Important aspects of entrepreneurship can be usefully understood as a quasi-scientific process in which entrepreneurs develop theories of value and test those theories through experimentation. Unlike academic scientists, however, entrepreneurs often develop and test theories in collaboration with …
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Human activity, energy & money in the United States: connecting the biophysical economy with its pecuniary image
… interrelationship between the biophysical sphere of economic activity and its monetary image? After reviewing and critiquing land, labour, utilitarian, and energy theories of value, this paper abandons the search for a direct, causal connection (between the biophysical and the pecuniary) in favor …
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Value theory in environmental ethics and economics
… on the intrinsic and/or non-anthropocentric value of nature, without consensus on a clear definition of those terms and without a clear analysis of the implications of adopting such an ethic. The purpose of this thesis is to first make sense of those different definitions and claims. Then, I …
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Trabajo, utilidad y verdad: la influencia de las técnicas y tecnologías de investigación operativa en la conformación de los precios comerciales y su impacto en las teorías del valor: un análisis comparado desde la teoría del cierre categorial
… sciences". The historical development and goal of these techniques, technologies and sciences has allowed, in turn, shape the field of Political Economy that, while it cannot be equalize to the fields of natural sciences, it have made possible for certain stretches of this economic field to …
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Impossible Terrain: An Ethnography Of Policing In Atlantic City, New Jersey
… dissertation, Impossible Terrain: An Ethnography of Policing in Atlantic City, New Jersey, I develop a novel conceptualization of the “productivity of policing” in Racial Capitalism. My analysis is in part structured by a problematization of the common tendency within Police Studies scholarship to …
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German Economic Thought and the Marxist Critique of Political Economy, 1843-1941
GERMAN ECONOMIC THOUGHT AND THE MARXIST CRITIQUE OF POLITICAL ECONOMY, 1843-1941 This thesis analyses important episodes in the relationship between Marxist economics and the German economic tradition in the late-nineteenth and early-twentieth centuries. Previous scholars have often viewed the …
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A Volitional Theory of Aesthetic Value
… dissertation, I defend a volitionalist theory of aesthetic value. The volitionalist theory is a species of response-based models of aesthetic value: It holds that aesthetic value is based in a kind of human response. Traditional response-based theories of aesthetic value hold that value is …
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The capital of carnival: Alibabá carnival music and dance in Santo Domingo as social enterprise and performance complex
… groups known as “Alibabá” parade in the streets of Santo Domingo, giving a spectacular performance with equal elements of sonic and visual display. Unlike other carnival groups in the capital, Alibabá groups perform unison dance routines while dressed in stylized Middle-Eastern inspired costumes …