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- Prices in the Leontief input-output model with some global macroeconomic implications
- ABSTRACT This paper examines price determination by using income distribution profits and wages under a condition of economic interdependence among economic sectors. Various philosophers and economists from Ibn Khaldun, Cantillon, Quesnay, Ricardo, Marx, and Veblen to Leontief and Sraffa have made significant contributions explaining interdependence qualitatively and quantitatively. Instead...
- Research articles 2008-01-01
- A Buyer's Guide to the Innovation Bazaar
- Notable Papers and Articles A Buyer's Guide to the Innovation Bazaar; Satish Nambisan and Mohanbir Sawhney; Harvard Business Review, June 2007, pp. 109 -118.Professors Nambisan RPI and Sawhney Northwestern examine the various ways in which companies can "shop shop" for innovation outside of their own organization. Cautioning that there is...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- A Buyer's Guide to the Innovation Bazaar
- A Buyer's Guide to the Innovation Bazaar; Satish Nambisan and Mohanbir Sawhney; Harvard Business Review, June 2007, pp. 109-118. Professors Nambisan RPI and Sawhney Northwestern examine the various ways in which companies can "shop" for innovation outside of their own organization. Cautioning that there is no single best method,...
- Research articles 2007-09-01
- On Samir Amin's contribution to globalization
- ABSTRACT This paper intends to review and analyze Amin's contribution to the globalization process. He analyzes the global capitalist system through its evolution over five centuries and has found that its process of capital accumulation is exploitative and destructive of many Third World countries. The monopoly global capitalist model...
- Research articles 2007-05-01
- One third of China's private business people are Communist Party members
- BEIJING AFP — Capitalists were once vilified by China's Communist Party but now one out of every three private businessmen is a card-carrying member, state-run Xinhua news agency reported. Since China currently has nearly four million private enterprises, that would mean well over one million private entrepreneurs have joined...
- Research articles 2005-02-10
- Keeping labor productive: Veblen's notion of reserve capacity and procyclical productivity analysis
- The technology-productivity puzzle has generated a rancorous debate in economics. Many labor economists claim that computer-related investments have led to structural gains in productivity. Others are skeptical that such high-tech investments are behind recent surges in labor productivity. They argue that the relative increase in productivity growth rates since the...
- Research articles 2004-09-01
- Markets for Trade Explored at Harrisburg, Pa., Event.
- By Ellen Lyon, The Patriot-News, Harrisburg, Pa. Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Jun. 10--With the passing of former President Ronald Reagan, it's especially timely to remember that the fall of the Berlin Wall, which Reagan called for, spawned 3 billion new capitalists, Don ...
- Research articles 2004-06-10
- Who hates the Jews now?
- The new anti-Semitism is being spread by both the Right and the Left, says Mark Strauss, and it is at its most virulent among globophobesThey're at it again: the Jewish conspiracy to take over the world is back in session. The former Malaysian prime minister Mahathir Mohamad's recent claim that...
- Research articles 2003-11-29
- What, me, a radical?(In real life: first-person America)
- DURHAM, NORTH CAROLINA -- One day last year when Catholic neo-conservative Father Richard John Neuhaus came to speak at Duke University, I overheard a divinity school professor in the hall talking to a colleague who planned to attend the lecture. "You'd better bring some rotten tomatoes,"...
- Research articles 2003-10-01
- Balance: C[H.sub.4] + 2[O.sub.2] = 2[H.sub.2]O + C[O.sub.2]: when can the cost of environmental spending be too high?
- OPINION by Nick Moretti The question is, can there be such a thing as a price tag on health and safety? The answer is, in a capitalistic society, "yes." I also ascribe to the philosophy of returning something in better shape than it was...
- Research articles 2002-11-01
- Energy Industry a Volatile Issue for Mexicans.
- By Hugh Dellios, Chicago Tribune Knight Ridder/Tribune Business News Sep. 1--MEXICO CITY -- Accustomed to the warm glow of candlelight during temporary blackouts, Mexicans already are aware when officials warn that the nation's energy industry might falter if lots of money...
- Research articles 2002-09-01
- A Media Puppet Show
- It's very difficult to take a woman named Starhawk seriously. It's even more difficult when Starhawk tells you that she represents an organization called "the Pagan Cluster" and that the "cluster" opposes the World Economic Forum, that gathering of global capitalists that relocated to New York last week from its...
- Research articles 2002-02-04
- expansion of capital and uneven development on a world scale, The
- This paper explains the divergence among countries in level of development in terms of primary and secondary uneven development, both resulting from the process of accumulation. Primary uneven development arises because of the more dynamic expansion of capitalist countries relatively to countries in which capitalism is incipient. This difference is...
- Research articles 2001-07-01
- A phanton loan
- Peter Banyard asks whether the World Bank and IMF are effective. He goes on to take a jaundiced look at online banking. arx and Lenin seem to have got quite a few things wrong. All the same, on the principle of not throwing the M baby out...
- Research articles 2000-12-01
- Mail Call.
- Globalization in Eastern Europe Many readers of our Sept. 25 Special Report on Prague's IMF summit and the new young capitalists were optimistic about Eastern Europe's future. But some observers worried that the current generation was more concerned with worldly possessions than hard...
- Research articles 2000-10-23
- Transaction costs and the historical evolution of the capitalist firm
- The aim of this paper is to critically assess the contribution of transaction costs economics TCE in explaining the nature of the firm. TCE suffers from conceptual problems and lacks a historical-evolutionary basis. The pursuit of a historically informed evolutionary perspective exposes the limits of TCE and points to the...
- Research articles 1998-12-01
- British Colonial Rule and the Resistance of the Malay Peasantry, 1900-1957. (book reviews)
- In the above book, Nonini has adopted the humanist and historicist Marxist approach to interpret resistance of Malay peasants to British colonial rule. Like other works on the subaltern society, such as the well-written Weapons of the Weak by James Scott (1985) published by Yale University...
- Research articles 1997-09-01
- Organized business politics in democratic Brazil
- In May 1996 Brazil's National Confederation of Industry CNI convened a meeting of industrialists in Brasilia for a mass show of unity and focused lobbying in favor of constitutional reform. Industrialists large and small heeded the call. Nearly three thousand of them from all over Brazil chartered planes and packed...
- Research articles 1997-01-01
- From opportunity to imperative: the history of the market
- Just about every definition of the "market" in the dictionary connotes an opportunity: as a concrete locale or institution, a market is a place where opportunities exist to buy and sell; as an abstraction, a market is the possibility of sale. Goods "find a market," and we say there is...
- Research articles 1994-07-01
- Not the C Word! How could you? (Naomi Wolf fails to recognize class influence on feminism) (Beat The Devil) (Column)
- Not the C Word! How Could You? The foregoing discussion touches on class, a concept offensive to many sensibilities. Naomi Wolf, for example, would tell all those impoverished teenage moms to become "power feminists" and step on up to better things. ...
- Research articles 1994-02-28
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