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Wage Differences As Robert Hall
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1,845 words"People recognise themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobiles, hi-fi sets, split level homes social control is anchored in the new needs which the consumer society has produced. " (Marcuse, 1968: 24) To what extent are we controlled by the consumer society we live in? People recognise themselves in their commodities; they find their soul in their automobiles, hi-fi sets, split level homes social control is anchored in the new needs which the consumer society has pr...
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1,829 words... s. Products are produced and marketed collectively, no matter how seriously industry tries to diversify product lines. What I would like to argue here is that consumers are incorporated into the capitalist system, not by the compulsive exercise of power by industry, but as a result of the interaction with industry. In other words, consumers can make their decisions through the interaction with industry by way of commodities, and in this interaction, categorization works as a determinant fact...
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Marxism And The Labor Theory Of Value
4,888 words... list thinking. The second difficulty pertains to the hypocrisy of Roemer's view on consistency: it is one thing to level a charge of inconsistency against Marx's value theory, and quite another thing to claim that it is not useful to criticize the inconsistency of neoclassical utility and production functions - particularly when those inconsistencies are part and parcel of Roemer's own approach. The whole question of consistency is, in fact, far more complex than Roemer's focus on formal log...
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1,103 wordsAlthough the journals and diaries, in which Christopher Columbus is said to have recorded his discoveries, have long been lost to us and the ones that remain are not the originals, these works may not tell the whole story, or even possibly the truth of his discoveries. This essay will endeavor to explain what Columbus expected to find in the Indies, how his reports reflected these findings and the deception in what he reported back to the empire in a bid to hide his misfortunes. Upon the reading...
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Marx Theory Of Money
1,273 wordsThe Theory of Money and the Theory of Value The most important point to emerge from Marx's theory of money is the idea that money is a form of value. The difficulty with this idea is that we are more familiar with money itself than with value in other forms. But value does appear in forms other than money. For example, the balance sheet of a capitalist firm estimates the value of goods in process and of fixed capital which has not yet been depreciated, as well as the value of inventories of fini...
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Marx Theory Of Money
1,280 words... tion) the value flows measured in money terms may deviate from true value flows because of unequal exchanges in which value is either transferred to or drained out of the sector in question. Thus the notion of value is an operational and measurable concept if we specify the degree to which we believe unequal exchange is an important factor in the situation and the concrete circumstances that p edit the inequality of exchange. In this way the theory of money leads us to an understanding of th...
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Marx Theory Of Money
1,271 words... int of crisis, either in the relations of two agents or in the system as a whole. The question of what role, if any, gold plays in a monetary system would remain open to examination in concrete instances. Whichever of these two paths we follow, we are left with the problem of understanding what dynamic laws govern the value of money. If gold is the general equivalent, but the value of money can vary within quite wide boundaries given the value of gold, then we will want to know what governs ...
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Current Account Deficit Cost Of Living
1,741 wordsIntroduction The purpose of this study is to examine the impact of the currency and financial crisis on Indonesia's international trade and trade-related economic performance. The focus is on trade-related economic activity and indicators, particularly on non-oil / gas exports and imports in the period of 1997, 1998 and early 1999. A summary of Indonesia's balance of payments in recent years, including the first three quarters of 1998, reveals the severity of the adjustment that has taken place ...
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Oil Gas Natural Resource
1,824 words... ng (- 37. 45 %). Sectors showing the greatest expansion are non-oil / gas mining (21. 11 %), non-food crops (5. 96 %), electricity (5. 08 %), communications (4. 83 %) and fisheries (4. 08 %). It is disappointing that non-oil / gas manufacturing contracted more rapidly than overall GDP (- 14. 48 % vs. 13. 68 %). However, assuming that agriculture (including all sub-sectors), mining (not quarrying) and manufacturing constitute tradable's, whereas construction, utilities, quarrying and all serv...
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Political And Social Means Of Production
1,525 wordsCapitalism Essay Robert Heilbroner is one of the prominent American writers and economists who has several classic works on economy and the development of capitalism. His book The Nature and Logic of Capitalism gives answers on many questions as to the connections between the social formation of capitalism, its nature and its logic; and, first of all, the most important one: What is capitalism? According to Heilbroner, capitalism is surrounded with the multiple ideologies. They impact greatly on...
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1,866 words1. Antitrust Laws between Shell, Inc. and a Gas Station Retailer Case: Mr. Ali has agreed to retail oil from Shell, Inc at a price 4 y less than the Suggested Retail Price (SRP). He can ask Shell to lower or raise the SRP accordingly so as to stay competitive with the other markets around his area. Shell has refused to either to raise or lower the SRP thereby making him very vulnerable in the competitive market. What antitrust laws are there so that he may receive relief? If the Gas station owne...
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19 Th Century Point Of View
1,422 wordsFetishism A fetish is a thing or an object, which, according to the beliefs or psychological attitude of a person, has a supernatural influence, power or abilities, or from the other point of view, a thing which has supremacy over people. Fetishism is the condition of belonging to such mental or conscious dependency. In other words, a fetish is an entity, which attracts unusual, anomalous attention of a person, and drastically dominates in the perception of the situation. Correspondently, fetish...
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Specters Of Marx German Ideology
2,698 wordsHauntology in Derrida's Specters of Marx Derrida's discussion of the relevance of Marxism in his book was long awaited. It was the first attempt to discuss Marxist politics from a different prospective. My attempt was to summarize arguments and to give the main idea of thoughts of Derrida. However, it is hard to describe all the beautiful deferred and differed meanings carefully established by Derrida. The author wanted to remind us in a unique playful way about the connections between Marx and ...
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Specters Of Marx Optic Nerve
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Advertising Campaign Newspapers Magazines
2,097 wordsEvery time we open a newspaper or we turn on the TV, we see sellers of almost identical products spending huge amounts of money in order to convince us to buy their brands. Every year, each typical American watches 1550 hours of TV, listens 1160 hours on radio, and spends 290 hours reading newspapers and magazines. So every day, each American watches 100 TV advertisements, 100 to 300 ads through other mass media, and in one single year receives 216 pieces of direct mail advertising, and almost 5...
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1,538 wordsWage Differences at Robert Hall I. Problem The Robert Hall Clothes, Inc. in Wilmington, Delaware are paying men and women different wages for essentially the same job. This is morally wrong because it is gender discrimination. II. Analysis A. The management of Robert Hall learned in 1973 that it was entirely legal for them to pay male salespersons more than female salespersons. Management feels that it is okay to pay women clerks less, because the commodities that they sell cannot bring in the s...
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Foreign Exchange Financial Markets
9,495 wordsIntroduction International Financial Markets Contents Introduction Purpose of the Reuters Guide to the International Financial Markets Whos Who in the International Financial Markets The Roles in the International Financial Markets Traders Brokers Sales Investment Institutions Decision Support General Management Trader Support Back Office Retail Sector Introduction to Financial Markets Overview of Financial Markets Types of Instruments Equity Debt Commodity Over The Counter or Exchange Traded Ca...
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Oxford Basil Blackwell World Trade Organisation
3,002 words1. A little over a decade after the collapse of Communism, it might appear that Marxist theory has been relegated to little more than an historical or even archeological artefact with little relevance to or influence over an ever encroaching and expanding, global ising capitalism. Socialism proper, as a state economic model and ideology seems to have been banished to the margins of the world scene. The disastrous results in terms of the dictatorships and totalitarianism that have ensued wherever...
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2,131 wordsPerhaps the most graphic example of formalism in dialogue with modern materialism is Zukofsky's sestina " Mantis, " which not only addresses the alienation of life under modern capitalism but does so by debating the " implications of a too regular form. " What is most interesting about Zukofsky's response to social crisis is that it is often conducted in formal terms that seem at odds with the material under consideration. This disparity has prompted Eric Mottram to speak of ...
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