• I argue that sustainability (or a healthy environment) can be seen as an "ecological social wage" under capitalism and has to be fought for as a part of a larger fight against the various logics of capitalism, such as endless accumulation, and against the system as a whole. (socialistproject.ca)
  • The threat to sustainability under capitalism does not come from the fact that there are too many people on earth, nor from the fact that some erstwhile poor countries are consuming more things to live a slightly better life, nor indeed from human beings' productive activity as such (e.g. industrialization), although all these facts do involve increased extraction of resources from nature. (socialistproject.ca)
  • Here, the notion of "natural capital" was viewed in terms of the stock of physical properties and natural-material use values constituting real wealth and was seen as opposed to the growing "sense of capitalism" as a system of mere exchange value or cash nexus. (monthlyreview.org)
  • In capitalism, however, the relation to nature only appears to be mediated by human practice. (steemit.com)
  • Capitalism is the stage in the development of human society characterised by class monopoly of the means of production, with wage-labour and commodity-production. (worldsocialism.org)
  • But we want to go further and assert that the development and maintenance of capitalism as a system that exploits humans is in some ways dependent upon the abuse of animals. (libcom.org)
  • Furthermore the movement that abolishes capitalism by changing the relations between humans - communism - also involves a fundamental transformation of the relations between humans and animals. (libcom.org)
  • The methodology used to assess the degree of convergence in output per worker is based on the cointégration analysis, which recognizes that labour productivity is generally a non-stationary time series and convergence is a gradual process. (repec.org)
  • First of all, we consider a decomposition of the growth in labour (green) productivity in terms of (1) efficiency change (2) technical change (3) (physical) capital accumulation and (4) growth in human capital. (repec.org)
  • Marx extensively discusses one of these, the 'hidden abode' of production, where labour power purchased in the market-place loses its freedom and is subjected to the despotic rule of capital as its energies are converted into abstract labour. (plutobooks.com)
  • Changes to the climate and environment such as higher temperatures and extreme weather events have the potential to damage labour productivity and human capital accumulation. (cepr.org)
  • Investment in human capital consist of ;education, training, health and other social services, that will help in enhancing productive capacity of labour. (com.ng)
  • Human capital is substitutable though it will not replace land, labour or capital it can be substituted for them to various degrees and be included as a separate variable in a production function. (com.ng)
  • As a commodity, labour is not seen as integral to human personhood but, instead, as something that can be isolated and given to a buyer for a stipulated period of time. (overland.org.au)
  • In buying labouring power, then, capital takes possession of labour, effectively draining it of its substance as a series of unique and unrepeatable acts tied to specific human personalities. (overland.org.au)
  • This detachability of commodified labour allows capitalists to break up and dissect work-processes into their component parts, confining individuals to the repetition of a limited number of human movements. (overland.org.au)
  • As identical and interchangeable units of homogeneous labour-power, workers' skills and bodies are dissected, fragmented, cut up into separable pieces subjected to the direction of an alien-force, represented by a legion of supervisors, and embedded in rhythms and processes of work that are increasingly dictated by automatic programmes and systems of machinery. (overland.org.au)
  • Wealth is anything useful produced by human labour from materials found in nature. (worldsocialism.org)
  • As articles of wealth all commodities share two characteristics: they are useful and they are products of human labour. (worldsocialism.org)
  • The model accounted for (1) the effect of COPD mortality and morbidity on labour supply, (2) age and sex specific differences in education and work experience among those affected by COPD, and (3) the impact of COPD treatment costs on physical capital accumulation. (bvsalud.org)
  • If you haven't read Easterly and Levine's " I t's Not Factor Accumulation " you should. (jobsanddevelopment.org)
  • But when I consulted Bosworth and Collins' " The Empirics of Growth: An Update " looking for numbers for Low-Income Countries (LICs) that would validate the thesis of "It's Not Factor Accumulation", I didn't find them. (jobsanddevelopment.org)
  • The authors find that factor accumulation played an important role in output growth, and that accumulations from policy-driven investments in human capital, and public infrastructure, were important sources of productivity gains. (worldbank.org)
  • Against the background of inconclusive evidence about the inequality-growth relation, this paper suggests that the level of inequality increases via the human capital channel with credit market imperfections and that this increasing inequality negatively affects economic growth. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Inequality, Human Capital Formation and the Process of Development (NBER Working Paper No. 17058). (uni-muenchen.de)
  • From Physical to Human Capital Accumulation: Inequality and the Process of Development. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Inequality, Human Capital and Development: Making the Theory Face the Facts (MPRA Paper No. 18973). (uni-muenchen.de)
  • Effects of income inequality, researchers have found, include higher rates of health and social problems, and lower rates of social goods, a lower population-wide satisfaction and happiness and even a lower level of economic growth when human capital is neglected for high-end consumption. (wikipedia.org)
  • In two studies Robert Putnam established links between social capital and economic inequality. (wikipedia.org)
  • Kaldor (1956), for example, considers income inequality as necessary for the provision of savings (the rich save more than the poor), and thus key for capital accumulation and economic growth. (cepr.org)
  • The rationale is that inequality of opportunity may harm economic growth because it favours human capital accumulation by individuals with better social origins, rather than by those with more talent. (cepr.org)
  • This thesis consists of three self-contained papers in theoretical and computational macroeconomics and growth theory with income inequality and human capital accumulation as common themes. (lu.se)
  • The paper develops a model for endogenous income inequality that fits US evidence while comparing popular income processes. (lu.se)
  • Marx says little, outside the section of Capital vol 1 on 'so-called primitive accumulation, about the role of force in establishing and maintaining the whole system of commodity production and exchange, let alone that of specifically capitalist development. (plutobooks.com)
  • In order to develop a critical analysis of the current capitalist expropriation of world ecology, it is necessary to explore the concept of natural capital in the work of Marx and other early radical critics within classical political economy. (monthlyreview.org)
  • In analysing these processes, Marx resorts repeatedly to the language of monstrosity. (overland.org.au)
  • Marx: "Communism as the positive transcendence of private property as human self-estrangement and, therefore, as man's complete atonement as a social (i.e., human) being - a reunion accomplished consciously and embracing the entire wealth of previous development. (steemit.com)
  • Today, over a hundred years after the publication of the first volume of Capital, the interest in the ideas of Karl Marx is wider than ever. (worldsocialism.org)
  • In capitalist society, Marx said, wealth takes the form of an immense accumulation of commodities. (worldsocialism.org)
  • According to Galor and Moav (2006), the key to fast growth in modern societies is not capital accumulation but improvements in human capital. (cepr.org)
  • both capital (physical and human) accumulation and improvements in economic efficiency are central to the growth process. (jobsanddevelopment.org)
  • This research develops an evolutionary growth theory that captures the interplay between the evolution of mankind and economic growth since the emergence of the human species. (ssrn.com)
  • The theory suggests that prolonged economic stagnation prior to the transition to sustained growth stimulated natural selection that shaped the evolution of the human species, whereas the evolution of the human species was the origin of the take-off from an epoch of stagnation to sustained growth. (ssrn.com)
  • More unequal societies may then be more prone to wasting human resources, which would lead to lower growth. (cepr.org)
  • We have had now for about 40 years, exponential credit growth in the developed world, and also an unleashing of fiat money, followed by the end of the Bretton Woods agreement, with many benefits in terms of capital flows going to the developing world, or at least this would be one interpretation of events, in keeping with Kindleberger or Minsky, in terms of their ideas of liquidity. (mcalvany.com)
  • At the same time, the Bank has down-played the importance for growth of accumulating more human or physical capital. (jobsanddevelopment.org)
  • My own simple growth accounting for the fastest growing economies from 1991-2017 concurs: capital accumulation explains 50% of real GDP growth, and TFP explains 35 percent. (jobsanddevelopment.org)
  • Consistent with Chenery and Syrquin's findings, we see here that increased investment (gross fixed capital formation) drove growth in the largest countries (China, India, and Bangladesh), and a combination of net trade and investment featured in the smaller countries. (jobsanddevelopment.org)
  • But through greater openness, each was able to raise productivity through policies that supported comparative advantage in trade, and each was able to access foreign capital to help finance export-oriented and growth-enhancing investments. (jobsanddevelopment.org)
  • Economic growth is a process of creative destruction, in which the old economic structure is replaced by a new and more productive one. (nishanteacademy.in)
  • Economic growth is the process of creating and sustaining an institutional environment that promotes technological change and the accumulation of human and physical capital. (nishanteacademy.in)
  • Long-term sustainable economic growth depends on the ability to raise the rates of accumulation of physical and human capital, to use the resulting productive assets more efficiently and to ensure the access of the whole population to these assets. (study-aids.co.uk)
  • A nation cannot experience economic growth without human capital development. (com.ng)
  • For human capital to actually have any impact on economic growth some investment has to be made. (com.ng)
  • This project examines the impact of human capital on economic growth in Nigeria from 1980-2006. (com.ng)
  • The study used the ordinary least square technique(O L S) to determine the relationship between human capital and economic growth. (com.ng)
  • Human capital refers to a conscious and continuous process of acquiring requisite knowledge, education, skills and experiences that are crucial for the rapid economic growth of a country (Harbison 1973, Salleh 1992). (com.ng)
  • The neo-classical mode and multiple regression using ordinary least square (OLS) to analyze the relationship between the dependent and independent variables using GDPPC (gross domestic product per capital) as a proxy for economic growth and development was conducted. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • Finally, the policy recommendation arising from the study shows if government wants to increase the level of economic growth in Nigeria, then it should invest more on human capital and also roll out programmes that will encourage human capital development. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • whether developing or developed with a market economy or centrally planned is an increase in productivity per capital output growth is however an important component of economic development or welfare. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • From studies, it has been revealed that human beings are the most important and promising source of growth in productivity and economic growth and development. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • Therefore these relevant human capital formation indices should be integrated into the national development planning process in other to achieve sustainable growth and development. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • How does the accumulation of capital lead to economic growth? (acquen.online)
  • The most common example of this is investing in factories, machinery, and other physical capital.There are several ways in which the accumulation of capital leads to economic growth. (acquen.online)
  • But in general, the accumulation of capital is a vital ingredient in the recipe for economic growth. (acquen.online)
  • In order to improve the monitoring effect of corporate human resource efficiency under the smart city management model, this paper establishes an evaluation model for the human resource management model between different growth stages of the organization, different organizations in different industries, and different organizations in the same industry. (hindawi.com)
  • Achieving a sustained productivity growth requires both a high rate of capital accumulation, technological upgrading, and the related changes in human resources. (idm.at)
  • Capital investment both embodies technical change and makes labor more productive. (jobsanddevelopment.org)
  • Equipment and technology are products of human minds and can only be made productive by people. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • The success of any productive program depends on human innovative ideas and creativity. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • Human capital formation, Okojie (1995) argue is associated with investment in man and his development as a creative and productive person. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • The totality of the effort and cost involved in this massive upgrading of the productive capacity of the people constitutes investment in human resources which is also referred to as manpower development or human resources development. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • Education and training have been identified as the most important direct means of upgrading the human intellect and skills for productive employment (Yusuf, 2000). (eprojecttopics.com)
  • But if the fisherman is able to think and come up with new ideas for technologies to deploy capital to create, he can produce new capital goods that are more productive than the fishing rod. (saifedean.com)
  • It is, however, based on the capitalist mode of development of the productive forces, a process that does not promote man's liberation from nature, but rather makes him more dependent on it. (steemit.com)
  • The concept of human capital refers to the abilities and skills of human capital resources of a country, while human capital formation refers to the process of acquiring and increasing the number of person who have the skills, education and experience which are crucial for the economic and political development of a country (Okojie 1995). (eprojecttopics.com)
  • In simple terms, the accumulation of capital refers to the process of saving and investing money over time. (acquen.online)
  • Human capital refers to the skills and knowledge that workers possess. (acquen.online)
  • Social capital refers to the networks and relationships that people have. (acquen.online)
  • Financial capital refers to the money that people have available to invest. (acquen.online)
  • The so-called strategic human resource management refers to planning the allocation and activities of human resources to assist the organization in achieving organizational goals. (hindawi.com)
  • In order to develop an understanding of the breadth of capital's tyranny we must account for the reproduction of life and recognise how gender and race oppression is crucial to capital accumulation. (plutobooks.com)
  • The crucial link between both processes has been aptly summarized by Kennedy (2004) as follows, manpower is the basic resources, and it is the indispensable means of converting other resources to mankind's uses and benefit. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • Food is a basic human need and plays a crucial role in the agro-based economy of Bangladesh, where a large proportion of the income of the population is allocated to food. (who.int)
  • In order to stay consistent with the standard NIPA data, we define intangibles as the sum of two categories: "intellectual property products" ( IPP )-which consists of research and development (R&D), software, and entertainment and artistic products-and investment in information processing equipment, i.e., high-tech equipment ( HT ). (chicagofed.org)
  • Educational quality thresholds in the diffusion of knowledge with mobile phones for inclusive human development in sub-Saharan Africa ," Technological Forecasting and Social Change , Elsevier, vol. 129(C), pages 164-172. (repec.org)
  • Educational Quality Thresholds in the Diffusion of Knowledge with Mobile Phones for Inclusive Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa ," Research Africa Network Working Papers 17/057, Research Africa Network (RAN). (repec.org)
  • Educational Quality Thresholds in the Diffusion of Knowledge with Mobile Phones for Inclusive Human Development in Sub-Saharan Africa ," MPRA Paper 85484, University Library of Munich, Germany, revised Sep 2017. (repec.org)
  • After a general depiction of the process of development, the main theories that structured the related research field are presented. (polytechnique.fr)
  • This finding demonstrate the relevance of real gross domestic product in boosting the human capital development through the ratio of student enrollment in schools. (com.ng)
  • This research work tries to investigate the analysis of human capital formation and economic development in Nigeria between 1981 to 2015. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • Human capital development according to Harbison and Myer (1964) is the process of increasing the knowledge, the skills and the capabilities of people in the society. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • Economists have recognized the centrality of the stock and rate of accumulation of human capital in the process of development. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • In effect, human resources development encompasses virtually the whole population as its target. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • Finally, the accumulation of capital provides the resources necessary to finance research and development, which can lead to the creation of new and better products and processes.Over time, the benefits of the accumulation of capital tend to compound. (acquen.online)
  • The process of technological advancement is the continuous development and application of new and better ideas and methods to the process of production, leading to a progressive increase in output per unit of time. (saifedean.com)
  • With the advent of the information age, smart cities will surely become the direction of future urban development, and human resource management on this basis must also keep pace with the times [ 1 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Thus, the unity of human resource management efficiency with the company's development strategy goals has become the key basis for the company to make important decisions [ 3 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • Prior to this, China's enterprise development had relatively low management requirements, and the investment and management of various resources such as human, financial, and material were relatively extensive. (hindawi.com)
  • In the new development state and cycle, China will continue to emerge a series of problems such as insufficient labor supply, reduction of human resources, lack of talents, and low quality of talents. (hindawi.com)
  • The advantage of foreign capital investment especially foreign direct investment cannot be over emphasised, some of which include the acquisition of relevant and required technology, employment, inflow of foreign direct investment, manpower and human capital development, increased foreign exchange to the host countries and international accreditation and relevance. (projects.ng)
  • What might an analysis of gift streams tell us about the development of human consciousness in the 21st century in the United States? (rsfsocialfinance.org)
  • The health consequences of anaemia can include poor pregnancy outcome, impaired physical and cognitive development, increased risk of morbidity in children and reduced work productivity in adults. (who.int)
  • Development of human resources and increased communication between local stakeholders (groups and persons whose actions are affected by emerging infectious diseases and animal health) were instrumental for successful implementation. (cdc.gov)
  • Moreover, this paper uses the three-factor vector evaluation model to modify the management efficiency of the human resource model and designs the corresponding intelligent enterprise human resource efficiency monitoring model. (hindawi.com)
  • Through experimental testing, it can be seen that the enterprise human resource efficiency monitoring system under the smart city management mode proposed in this paper has good practical results. (hindawi.com)
  • Human resource management efficiency is the effect of human resource management or the degree of tasks and expectations that can be completed for the organization. (hindawi.com)
  • The improvement of human resource management efficiency can provide the organization with more competitive advantages in the market. (hindawi.com)
  • This paper addresses the past achievements and the deficiencies of the Hungarian manufacturing sector by analyzing the changes and the challenges of the f​actor side of the well-known production function, according to which output is the function of factors (capital and labor) and efficiency. (idm.at)
  • Most papers relate income and productivity differences to efficiency differences, explaining this latter with technology absorption difficulties, an inadequate human capital stock as well as with institutional deficiencies. (idm.at)
  • The model predicts that labor immiseration -- i.e. full automation of the economy -- is inevitable unless learning efficiency is improved through capital taxation. (lu.se)
  • it is not a physical part of the meal, but the cognitive knowledge that brings it all together. (saifedean.com)
  • Furthermore, actively engaging adults in prevention and wellness along with involving their caregivers (i.e., the family and friends of older adults who provide them with unpaid and informal support and services) can serve to prevent or delay the onset of physical disabilities and cognitive decline. (cdc.gov)
  • With these parts of the brain attributed to both vital cognitive funcitonings such as the regulation of fear and pleasure responses, as well as motor function, it is no surprise that poor early life health conditions have been associated with increased rates of physical disability and phychological disorders such as schizophrenia (Hoek et al 1998). (lu.se)
  • Racism is "a system [of power and oppression] of structuring opportunity and assigning value based on the social interpretation of how one looks (which is what we call "race") that unfairly disadvantages some individuals and communities, unfairly advantages other individuals and communities, and saps the strength of the whole society through the waste of human resources" (1). (cdc.gov)
  • Human is then one's income depends partly on the rate of return on the human capital one owns, which allows on the receive a flow of income which is like interest earned. (com.ng)
  • On the other hand foreign direct investment (FDI) driven physical capital accumulation began, partly in the form of in-kind investments, but also in the form of purchases of used and new capital equipment. (idm.at)
  • And the best known application of the idea of `Human Capital' in economics revolves around the work of Mincer, Schultz and Gary Becker of the Chicago school, Becker's book entitled Human Capital published in 1964 became a standard reference for many years. (com.ng)
  • It has existed for hundreds of years and still occurs naturally in both animals and humans in many parts of the world, including Asia, southern Europe, sub-Sahelian Africa and parts of Australia. (who.int)
  • Emerging infectious diseases in animals and humans are being identified more frequently, many in low-income tropical countries, and this trend is expected to continue ( 1 ). (cdc.gov)
  • In particular, she fails to integrate her correct focus on the centrality of human corporeality with the totality of social relations in which bodies operate, and so inadvertently endorses a decidedly capitalist form of physicality. (overland.org.au)
  • Control of anthrax among humans depends on the integration of veterinary and human health surveillance and control programmes. (who.int)
  • Their authorities are struggling to support innovation and in particular the accumulation of innovation capabilities. (investingmontenegro.me)
  • For the majority of human beings the consequence is a life dominated by work, half-lived in schools, factories, offices and prisons. (libcom.org)
  • Palestinian territories is the Israeli occupation of the Palestinian territories, the continued savage aggressions against Palestinians as human beings, the construction of many military barriers and of the apartheid wall and the separation of different parts of Palestinian lands, and the separation of those lands from the rest of the world through the closure of crossing points and frontiers. (who.int)
  • Yet the deployment and organisation of physical force is entailed in capitalist production, as a co-constituting and ongoing necessity. (plutobooks.com)
  • However, various left thinkers, many of them within the natural sciences, constituting a kind of second foundation of critical thought, and others in the arts rebelled against this narrow conception of human progress, and in the process generated a wider dialectic of ecology and a deeper materialism that questioned the environmental as well as social depredations of capitalist society. (monthlyreview.org)
  • In the process, a whole broadly interconnected bunch of writers have sought to 'deepen', 'expand', 'supplement', 'broaden' or 'stretch' the language of Marxism by 'going beyond' Capital . (plutobooks.com)
  • Human Capital is similar to "physical means of production" (example factories and machineries) one can invest in human capital (via education, training and medical treatment) and Nakamura (1981) also defines human capital broadly as labor skills, managerial skills and entrepreneurial and innovative abilities plus such physical attributes as health and strength. (com.ng)
  • Human resources are all embracing, and it is all inclusive of person who works now, or is likely to be productively employed sooner or later. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • Moreover, human resources have evolved from traditional personnel management to today's strategic human resource management in response to environmental changes and organizational needs. (hindawi.com)
  • Since the value of human resources can be continuously developed and improved, that is, human resources have strategic value, we can say that the purpose of human resource management is to support business performance, and it is one of the main sources for corporate organizations to gain competitive advantages [ 2 ]. (hindawi.com)
  • According to Palowitch [1982], the chief reason for this sophistication is that 'after more than two centuries of exploiting our coal resources, today's coal industry finds itself saddled with a horrendous legacy of human impairments and environmental damages which society demands be corrected. (cdc.gov)
  • At the same time, the effectiveness of human resource management as an important evaluation indicator of human resource management practice can enable enterprises to find serious problems in internal human resource management and solve them in time, thereby improving the effect of human resource management and achieving organizational goals better and faster. (hindawi.com)
  • At the same time, this destructive relation to nature conditions man's relation to both society and the future, as well as man's relation to himself as a natural and human being. (steemit.com)
  • As a Ph.D. student in Economics in Cambridge in the early 2000s, I became interested in the measurement of human welfare across long periods of time. (klausfzimmermann.de)
  • By scanning items upon receipt, use, or disposal, labs can have real-time inventory insights, reducing human error. (chartattack.com)
  • Even once hunting had become established, It is certainly not the case that all early humans ate meat all of the time. (libcom.org)
  • While a gift may have a physical or measurable presence, for example an object, time, talent, or money, its meaning lies in the intention of the giver to recognize the potential of the receiver to make value of the gift, and for the giver to relinquish control. (rsfsocialfinance.org)
  • After all, circulation in space is harder to measure than accumulation over time. (rsfsocialfinance.org)
  • The accumulated experience of exclusionary models, put in check by the implantation of the Unified Health System (UHS) at the end of the 1980s, has had a process of revision and reformulation still slow, even considering the short time of existence of a model based in the universality of attention. (bvsalud.org)
  • It is necessary to reconcile the population to declining standards of life quite quickly, because the decline itself is slow and (at least from the perspective of a limited human life) potentially endless. (metamute.org)
  • In more equal societies, people are much more likely to trust each other, measures of social capital (the benefits of goodwill, fellowship, mutual sympathy and social connectedness among groups who make up a social units) suggest greater community involvement, and homicide rates are consistently lower. (wikipedia.org)
  • Colin Barker shows how Social Reproduction Theory can 'stretch' the language of Marxism by going beyond Marx's Capital . (plutobooks.com)
  • [vii] Value passes through phases of production (where surplus-value is generated), of realisation and of distribution in repeated circuits of expanded societal reproduction that incorporate and subordinate ever-widening fields of human social activity. (plutobooks.com)
  • Although these sites, physical or virtual, are diverse in forms, access to them is stratified by one's social and cultural capital. (lectitopublishing.nl)
  • Wei argues, "While some social groups' gender and sexual mobilities have been folded into the process of neoliberal individualisation and human capital accumulation, many others have been alienated who find themselves increasingly deprived of the privilege of mobilities" (141). (lectitopublishing.nl)
  • These gated social spaces, literally located in gated residential compounds, function to narrow the pathways of queer upward mobility and preserve the cultural capital of the wealthy minority. (lectitopublishing.nl)
  • As Wei has argued, the process of gating helps the Chinese state to maintain and reproduce its broader project of class stratification and social exclusion. (lectitopublishing.nl)
  • The stock of human capital like the stock of natural and physical increase will deteriorate and decay if not increased and maintained through public health sanitation, social welfare service, nutrition and guaranteed employment schemes. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • Climate change heralds a return of the state (at least in the near term) because climate change brings more extreme weather and physical disaster, and that means greater social, political, and economic emergencies. (newpol.org)
  • The initial challenge confronting such an analysis was to explain how historical materialism, in the dominant twentieth-century conception in the West, had come to be understood as strictly confined to the social sciences and humanities, where it was divorced from any genuine materialist dialectic, since cut off from natural science and the natural-physical world as a whole. (monthlyreview.org)
  • There are four types of capital that can be accumulated: human, social, financial, and physical. (acquen.online)
  • The subordination of human corporeality to the law of value, to a logic that is real and yet has no body of its own, has significant consequences not just for what happens in the world of production but for social relations more widely. (overland.org.au)
  • China's social economy has moved from a stage of quantity accumulation to a stage of quality improvement. (hindawi.com)
  • Because of capitalistically degenerated labor, man does not develop his universal creative powers but, instead, is crippled as a natural, creative and social being and reduced to being a mechanical part of working processes - to being a destructive specialty-idiot. (steemit.com)
  • The human body, as an object of health, is inevitably inserted into historically and culturally situated social systems that are constructed based on interpersonal and group interaction and communication. (bvsalud.org)
  • More than a natural object, the human body can be understood as a psycho-socio-cultural structure and functions as a symbolic vehicle, permitting social interaction. (bvsalud.org)
  • According to Vala and Castro (2013), SRT is a theoretical approach to the processes through which individuals in social interaction absorb innovations and construct explanations about social objects. (bvsalud.org)
  • Healthy aging is not merely the absence of disease or disability, but requires physical and mental health and ongoing social engagement (1). (cdc.gov)
  • It means that rather than their own life-force, their fundamental human creative energy, workers' labouring power becomes a commodity, a separable and detachable thing that can be sold, handed over to someone else. (overland.org.au)
  • problems of human capital formation in Nigeria as well as theoretical framework were ascertained. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • Therefore human capital formation is a continuous process from childhood to old age and a must for any society or enterprise that wishes to survive under the complex challenges of a dynamic world. (eprojecttopics.com)
  • Which Situation Best Illustrates the Process of Capital Formation? (acquen.online)
  • There are many situations that can illustrate the process of capital formation. (acquen.online)
  • This is because a startup company is typically starting with little to no capital, and so the process of capital formation is particularly important in this case. (acquen.online)
  • The process of capital formation for a startup company can be divided into three main stages. (acquen.online)
  • Each of these stages is important in the process of capital formation for a startup company. (acquen.online)
  • What is the most important factor in the formation of capital? (acquen.online)
  • This is the most important factor in the formation of capital because money is what is used to buy assets, which in turn generate income. (acquen.online)
  • There are a number of other factors that contribute to the formation of capital, but the most important factor is the presence of money. (acquen.online)
  • Money is the lifeblood of capital formation, and without it, the process simply cannot take place. (acquen.online)
  • The third paper develops a task-based framework which incorporates decisions on human capital investment based on the concepts of the psychometric literature on skill formation. (lu.se)
  • To rapidly and efficiently move goods from production to consumption, however, Amazon relies on a logistics network that entails significant investments in infrastructure (physical and human) and these investments present a challenge for capital accumulation. (degruyter.com)
  • Physical capital such as infrastructure is also likely to be damaged by these factors. (cepr.org)
  • The implications of the non-physicality of this form of capital are significant. (saifedean.com)
  • Routine cross-notification between the veterinary and human health surveillance systems should be part of any zoonotic disease prevention and control programme, and close collaboration between the two health sectors is particularly important during epidemiological and outbreak investigations. (who.int)
  • However, in practice, establishing links between animal and human health data has been difficult because data from animal and human health surveillance systems are obtained at different resolutions and scales and for different purposes. (cdc.gov)
  • The hunting of larger animals for food, with the increased importance of meat in the diet, may have become more significant when humans encountered colder conditions in which plant foods were harder to come by, particularly in the last Ice Age. (libcom.org)
  • Demographic outcomes (fertility, mortality, migration) are influenced by economic factors, in particular individual endowments in terms of physical or human capital, and also by prices faced by individuals (e.g. the wage rate, housing prices). (klausfzimmermann.de)
  • The main mechanism for these results are shown to be differences in skill profiles, cross-productivity of skills and the faster accumulation rate of physical vis-à-vis human capital due to advanced skills being more difficult to master. (lu.se)
  • Continuing to invest in more identical boats will now also run into diminishing returns, but human reason will continue to look for new technologies to employ. (saifedean.com)
  • As a result, high-skill (low-skill) individuals invest in their stock of human capital beyond (below) what is optimal if the true obsolescence frequency was known to them. (lu.se)
  • In all 3 of these countries, the rise in imports offset the rise in exports, and so in aggregate, foreign savings (the capital account or net transfers) were used to finance part of the increase in investment. (jobsanddevelopment.org)
  • To start, investment is defined as the accumulation of assets that can be used for future production or consumption. (chicagofed.org)
  • The use of the term human capital in the modern neoclassical economic literature dates back to Jacob Mincer pioneering article "Investment in Human Capital and Personal income distribution" in the Journal of Political Economy in 1958. (com.ng)
  • The initial investment stage is important because it provides the company with the capital it needs to get started. (acquen.online)
  • One is that it provides the funds necessary to finance investment in new capital goods. (acquen.online)
  • 1 In the process, the entire human relation to nature was alienated and upended. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Since man is instrumentalized, from his earliest youth, by a capitalistically conditioned way of life, human practice is but one of the manifestations of capitalism's relation to nature and essentially corresponds to capitalism's destructive character. (steemit.com)
  • Only if man, as an emancipated natural being, has a humanizing relation to nature, can he have a humanizing relation to his own body as his immediate nature and to himself as a human being. (steemit.com)
  • This represents the culmination of a theoretical shift in the dominant economic paradigm aimed at the unlimited accumulation of total capital, now seen as including "natural capital. (monthlyreview.org)
  • We expand the model presented by Galor and Zeira (1993) to represent the fact that the economy benefits from endogenous technological progress and that the government provides financial aid to reduce the financial hurdles for human capital accumulation. (uni-muenchen.de)
  • The stock of physical capital increased due to an inflow of a large volume of greenfield investments and to the quick capacity increase with the run-up of production. (idm.at)
  • Perceptions of unequal opportunities, by affecting individual aspirations, may also reduce investments in human capital. (cepr.org)
  • While economists have long paid close attention to the concept of investments is, physical capital in recent years they have placed emphasis on the concept of human capital investments. (com.ng)
  • They find that the new technology changed the returns to fertilizers, irrigated land, and capital, all of which proved scarce to varying degrees, Complementing technology-related changes in factor use were investments - public and private - driven in part by policy. (worldbank.org)
  • Specific topics are then studied, mainly through classical or contemporary research papers: at the micro side, human capital and physical capital accumulation, and at the macro side, institutions. (polytechnique.fr)
  • Each type of capital has its own unique characteristics and plays a different role in the economy. (acquen.online)
  • From that perspective, variations in survival conditions play a fundamental role, since the finiteness of life is a major cause of scarcity and deprivation for humans. (klausfzimmermann.de)
  • [ 4 ] This possible role of bilirubin in early protection against oxidative injury, coupled with identification of multiple neonatal mechanisms to preserve and potentiate bilirubin production, has led to speculation about an as-yet-unrecognized beneficial role for bilirubin in the human neonate. (medscape.com)
  • It is essential to examine how climate will impact all these processes and, in turn, how these processes will affect climate and the environment. (cepr.org)
  • This nineteenth-century notion of "natural capital," conceived in physical, use-value terms, was to be revived in the 1970s and '80s as part of an emerging ecological critique. (monthlyreview.org)
  • In more recent decades, however, mainstream neoclassical economics (sometimes with the help of ecological economists), together with corporate finance, have completely separated the concept of natural capital from its original use-value-based critique, the memory of which has long receded, conceiving natural capital instead entirely in exchange-value terms, as just another form of financialized capital. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Capital accumulation will quickly run into diminishing returns without technological advancement. (saifedean.com)
  • There are relatively few analyses of inter-country disparities in physical capital accumulation1 and of disparities in the composition and the technological level of the physical capital stocks.2 This paper intends to contribute to the closing of this gap by examining the manufacturing sector from the point of view of the factors involved in the production activity. (idm.at)
  • However, given Germany's commitment to climate neutrality by 2045, suitable approaches for injecting climate finance into these SME lending processes are greatly required. (degruyter.com)
  • Nonetheless, we explain why developing solutions to utilise this knowledge for climate finance by integrating climate impact assessments into routine lending processes remains a particularly challenging task. (degruyter.com)
  • Together these developments represent a sea change in the capitalization of nature, such that all natural processes that involve ecosystem services to the economy are now increasingly seen to be subject to exchange on the market for profit-all in the name of conservation and climate change. (monthlyreview.org)
  • As we trace back our origins as humans, our ancestry merges with those of other primates. (libcom.org)
  • Of all the kinds of financial transactions, the gifting process has a unique capacity to link past, present, and future. (rsfsocialfinance.org)
  • Financial services which rely on digital innovations are rapidly transforming markets, and this process has been accelerated by the Covid-19 pandemic. (investingmontenegro.me)
  • The core assumption of this study is that access to and use of data represent emerging means for consolidating and challenging power next to financial capital and personal ties. (lu.se)
  • Chart 1 describes the flows and relationships between different plan/policy processes in Uganda. (imf.org)
  • How is data accumulation and data use negotiated and regulated? (lu.se)
  • Human health surveillance is often based on aggregated diagnoses data obtained from standardized electronic medical records. (cdc.gov)
  • Were adequately designed human studies identified in the text (i.e., good exposure data, sufficiently long period of exposure to account for observed health effects, adequate control for confounding factors)? (cdc.gov)
  • With the advent of the era of the knowledge economy, knowledge workers have replaced physical capital such as traditional labor, capital, and land and have become the key to enterprise success. (hindawi.com)
  • In order to design, implement, and coordinate an effective policy, policy makers must take into consideration everything that affects the accumulation of all types of capital-physical, human, and knowledge. (investingmontenegro.me)
  • Human reason allows us to develop concepts and ideas to achieve economic outcomes. (saifedean.com)
  • From this perspective, a gift circulates into the future connected to and by human intentions but liberated from predicted outcomes. (rsfsocialfinance.org)
  • Increasingly, however, economies are relying on a stock of intangible assets, such as patents or computer programs and applications, but also general know-how and business processes, human capital, and networks of relationships with customers or suppliers. (chicagofed.org)
  • It is hardly surprising in this context that the first references to "natural capital" and to the "earth's capital stock" arose in this same period in the work of radical and socialist political economists, who sought to defend nature and the commons against the intrusions of the market. (monthlyreview.org)
  • As the IEG told its investors, while the asset value of the world economy is $512 trillion, the asset value of the earth's natural capital is estimated at $4 quadrillion ($4,000 trillion), all potentially for the taking. (monthlyreview.org)
  • For socialist theory as for liberal analysis-and for Western science and culture in general-the notion of the conquest of nature and of human exemption from natural laws has for centuries been a major trope, reflecting the systematic alienation of nature. (monthlyreview.org)
  • The natural-physical world was seen within the dominant view of Marxism in the West as outside the domain of historical materialism. (monthlyreview.org)
  • But in rejecting the dialectics of nature, Western Marxism was compelled to absent itself from the natural world almost entirely, except insofar as it could be said to impinge on human psychology or human nature or to have an indirect impact via technology. (monthlyreview.org)
  • Gifting is as natural to the human condition as a sense of caring, unless we are conditioned to think and behave otherwise. (rsfsocialfinance.org)
  • The proposed human resource management model is based on the deduction result of human resource planning and design, work system design and employee system design, and the dynamic matching of the three. (hindawi.com)
  • To grow itself - to accumulate more and more capital - this predominant system has tended to two overwhelming priorities: Creating more products, and ever expanding markets in which to sell them. (radicaldecency.com)
  • On the one hand, with its single-minded focus on increasing capital, the system will always seek to drive workers' wages down. (radicaldecency.com)
  • It is obvious that the experiences of humans and animals are linked, having a common origin in the same system of production and exchange. (libcom.org)
  • Other in vitro studies have shown bilirubin to have more antioxidant capability than vitamin E, which is commonly assumed to be the most potent antioxidant in the human system. (medscape.com)
  • It also permits discussing the welfare effects and trade-offs of tax reforms as individuals adjust their labor supply and human capital accumulation. (lu.se)
  • By increasing the amount of capital they have available, businesses are able to increase output while lowering costs. (acquen.online)
  • Advances in digital technology have dramatically reduced the costs of storing, processing, publishing and searching for information. (csic.es)
  • Newland and San Segundo (1996) see human capital as that ability and education of an individually and on the other hand as the costs of physically raising a child and health. (com.ng)
  • I'd argue that this particular kind of focus on bodies also misses some deeper processes. (overland.org.au)