Economics and Liberating Theory - Part 4 doc

... Jean Bethke Elshtain, and Robert Putnam among others have documented the general decay of civic life and weakening of trust and participation across all income and educa- tional levels in the ... supply and demand closely approximate true marginal social costs and benefits then the individually rational behavior of buyers and sellers and the workings of the micro law of supply...

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... of self-managed and other-directed or alienated labor, and from the supervisory costs of monitoring employees. Conse- quently the model fails to capture differences in outcomes from labor and credit ... consider the impli- cations of people’s preferences for how they work, and who decides how they work, and discuss the effects of more realistic assumptions about con- sumption and...

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... capital-using and labor- saving or capital-saving and labor-saving, and whether they be socially productive or counterproductive. Can we conclude anything definitive about the effect of any cost-reducing ... prices, and the wage rate in the economy? Marx hypothesized that capitalist development would entail capital-using, labor-saving changes more often than capital- saving, labor-us...

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... ECONOMY MACRO ECONOMICS AND IMF CONDITION- ALITY AGREEMENTS In chapters 6 and 7 we learned how aggregate demand explains the causes of some kinds of unemployment and inflation, and studied the ... goods and services available. And besides the demand that comes from the domestic household, business, and government sectors, foreign demand for exports adds to the demand for final...

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... Press, 1991), both by Michael Albert and Robin Hahnel. Other essays about participa- tory economics and a forum where participants discuss and debate participatory economics can be found on the ZNet ... Cole, and Sidney and Beatrice Webb. 9. This model was first presented in The Political Economy of Participatory Economics (Princeton University Press, 1991), and Looking Forw...

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... { x3=(x2=x*x)*x; x4=x2*x2; y2=y*y; d=x-y; w[1]=d*((clog=log(d) )-1 .0); w[2] = -0 .25*(3.0*x+y-2.0*clog*(x+y))*d; w[3]= (-1 1.0*x3+y*(6.0*x2+y*(3.0*x+2.0*y)) +6.0*clog*(x3-y*y2))/18.0; w [4] = (-2 5.0*x4+y*(12.0*x3+y*(6.0*x2+y* (4. 0*x+3.0*y)))+12.0*clog*(x 4- ( y2*y2))) /48 .0; } } 8 04 Chapter ... -0 .25*(3.0*x+y-2.0*clog*(x+y))*d; w[3]= (-1 1.0*x3+y*(6.0*x2+y*(3.0*x+2.0*y)...

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... liberation and anti- racist movements, and anarchism, as well as from mainstream psychology, sociology, and evolutionary biology where useful. Liberating theory attempts to understand the relationships ... assembly lines, raw materials, and products are objects, and part of the “built” environ- ment. Ruth, Joe, and Sam, the people who work in, or own the factory, are people,...

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... ago, and global inequality is accelerating at an unprecedented pace. But how should we interpret What Should We Demand from Our Economy? 23 1 945 1955 1965 1975 1985 1995 0 .48 0 .47 0 .46 0 .45 0 .44 0 .43 0 .42 0 .41 0 .40 Year Gini ... 1995 0 .48 0 .47 0 .46 0 .45 0 .44 0 .43 0 .42 0 .41 0 .40 Year Gini Coefficient Figure 2.1 Gini Coefficients for US Household Income 1...

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... 90, MPC = 3 4, b = 200, r* = 0.10 (or 10%), T* = 40 , G* = 40 , and Y(f) = 900: Y(e) = 90 + 3 4( Y(e) 40 ) + 200 – 1000 (0.10) + 40 ; Y(e) – 3 ⁄4Y(e) = 90 – 30 + 100 + 40 ; 1 ⁄4Y(e) = 200; Y(e) ... of supply and demand which is the key to understanding how markets for particular goods and services work. The macro law of supply and demand is the key to understanding how much...

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... other. Suppose I come and sell my potatoes for money and then my six-year-old breaks his arm running around underneath the vegetable stands, I take him to the emergency room, and by the time we ... a theater, and say there are 100 people and you have the rush-to-the-exit problem. With derivatives, it’s as if without your knowing it, there are another 500 people in the theater, and...

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