• From the sixteenth to the eighteenth century, consecutive waves of state violence imposed the encroachment of the commons by the rising circuits of commodity market circulation and capitalist accumulation (Linebaugh 2014 : 4). (resilience.org)
  • They speak to the changing dynamics of capitalist accumulation, labor force, and subject formation while unsettling the visibility/invisibility dichotomy. (ici-berlin.org)
  • However, it is also one of the main causes of climate change, impacting directly and indirectly on human health. (mdpi.com)
  • Externalities are a natural byproduct of a capitalist, free market system and are a major factor when considering the causes of global climate change. (counterpunch.org)
  • What is to be mitigated is the impact of climate change on accumulation, rendered through the ideology of 'growth' as something that benefits everyone. (thetedkarchive.com)
  • This is worrisome as capital accumulation logic assumes low-complexity job generation ensures lifelong security. (solimarinternational.com)
  • As a result, what drives tourism growth is not the development of the region but the privatization of financial gains and socialization of negative externalities. (solimarinternational.com)
  • It is socialist because it shuns the cost-revealing, cost-assigning ways of the free market and pretends that the misallocation of resources and spreading-out of negative externalities that we currently experience in our state-sponsored "tragedy of the commons" is somehow acceptable as an alternative. (strike-the-root.com)
  • Negative externalities ranging from stock depletion - when an area is overfished to the point where the stock is unable to regenerate-to congestion in traditional fisheries and decreased water and health quality in aquaculture , will impact the overall health of fisheries. (theigc.org)
  • What it means is that for the first time, at Integral, one is capable of discerning the different value systems that drive economics at each stage/wave and both the positive and negative externalities each of those values entail. (integralworld.net)
  • Within the free market system of capitalism, regulations and controls are minimal, allowing the true costs of industrialization or large-scale farming, fishing, and production to be written off as externalities. (counterpunch.org)
  • Ecological degradation from human causes precedes capitalism. (resilience.org)
  • Capitalism is driven on by a social and productive dynamism, and by an un-heard-of regenerative ability, but it has this weakness: by its very strength, by the human energy and the technical power it sets into motion, it wears out what it exploits, and its productive intensity is only paralleled by its destructive potential, as proved by the first civilization crisis it went through in the 20th century. (libcom.org)
  • At the end of the 19th century, capitalism as it existed was no longer viable, on both sides of the capital-labour "couple": the productive forces of industry were too big to be managed by private owners, and the worker movement too powerful to be persistently denied a social and political role. (libcom.org)
  • Just as capitalism consists of Capital-Nation-State under the domination of the capitalist market logic as the main mode of exchange, so we posit the Productive Commons Community, the generative Entrepreneurial Coalition, and the For-Benefit Association as the seed form for a society that consists of a Productive Commons-Centric Civil Society, a Ethical Economy, and a Partner State, but under the dominant exchange form of the Commons. (p2pfoundation.net)
  • Watershed destruction, the depletion of water reserves, the degradation of water quality and accumulation of pollution in both surface and ground waters, and the use of the oceans as the ultimate sink for many wastes and residues of our civilization, all represent depreciation of the natural capital of water resources with which this planet was originally endowed. (iefworld.org)
  • These externalities would include such things as industrial manufacturing causing extreme air pollution, which effects human and non-human life, water pollution caused by the runoff of chemicals in industrial farming practices, massive over-fishing that depletes the fish stock for small communities and individual families, a high unemployment rate and extreme income disparities, and so on. (counterpunch.org)
  • With capitalism's pure focus on accumulation of capital, there is an incentive to externalize at all costs possible, be that through using outdated but "cheaper" technologies that emit high levels of pollution, or through the exploitation of cheap labor. (counterpunch.org)
  • Instead, they assume that current levels of government-induced population growth, the size of the "human footprint," and pollution are somehow a product of the free market and should continue without limit. (strike-the-root.com)
  • Schooling Externalities, Technology, and Productivity: Theory and Evidence from U.S. States ," The Review of Economics and Statistics , MIT Press, vol. 91(2), pages 420-431, May. (repec.org)
  • Schooling Externalities, Technology and Productivity:Theory and Evidence from U.S. States ," Working Papers 127, University of California, Davis, Department of Economics. (repec.org)
  • Schooling Externalities, Technology and Productivity: Theory and Evidence from U.S. States ," NBER Working Papers 12440, National Bureau of Economic Research, Inc. (repec.org)
  • The spread of a world capitalist way of life is visible in similar consumer habits (McDonald's) and architecture (skyscrapers), but has its deep cause in the dominance of value production, of productivity, of the capital-wage labour couple. (libcom.org)
  • This paper seeks to apply Human Capital Theory and Human Rights approach to critically analyse benefits of basic education in poverty reduction and realisation of regional equality in Northern Uganda. (grin.com)
  • İşcen resituates such modeling, which seeks to manage the uncertainty of externalities through flattening and dominating locality and difference, as an imperial aspiration manifested within post-World War II history. (ici-berlin.org)
  • No. When it comes to dealing with issues such as poverty, the income gap, unemployment, economic crises, human rights, war, imperialism, and the externalization of costs on society and the environment, the invisible hand that Adam Smith once imagined is not invisible, it is nonexistent. (counterpunch.org)
  • since human capital lies idle during unemployment periods, worse employment prospects should be expected to reduce investment incentives. (isiarticles.com)
  • The science is clear: the human-caused emissions of great amounts of greenhouse gases - primarily carbon dioxide, methane, and nitrous oxide - are causing global environmental damage. (counterpunch.org)
  • First, when there exist positive externalities in the accumulation of human capital, it is optimal to subsidize education and to tax births. (repec.org)
  • Finally, when the health expenditure is introduced as another source of positive externalities, it can be optimal to tax the parental health expenditure to decentralize the first-best path even if this expenditure is always too low at the laissez-faire equilibrium. (repec.org)
  • The literature on schooling externalities in U.S. cities and states is rather mixed: positive external effects of average education levels are hardly found while positive externalities from the share of college graduates are more often identified. (repec.org)
  • Our model predicts positive externalities from increased college education and negligible external effects from high school education. (repec.org)
  • Alongside all the simmering protests, innumerable practical alternatives to endless capital accumulation are being explored - co-operative movements, solidarity economies and networks, food security organisations, environmental and peasant movements, worker-controlled collectives are all in motion. (independent.co.uk)
  • Our numerical simulations suggest that a public policy that disregards the effects of parental time on children's human capital entails a welfare loss that ranges from 0:2% to 5:7% of aggregate consumption. (criep.eu)
  • Cultural orientation toward consumption implicitly surfaces the perception of the human relationship with the environment as either one of symbiosis or dominion. (northeastern.edu)
  • This course identifies the economic development of Korea by applying the mode of production and social composition universally accepted by human society to Korean society. (yonsei.ac.kr)
  • As a result we are accumulating many kinds of water debts which future generations will have to repay if the values and functions contributed by water to human welfare and the environment are to be restored. (iefworld.org)
  • At the core of this destructive surge has been the accumulation and integration of relations of domination in the novel form of the capital-nation-state complex (Karatani 2014). (resilience.org)
  • It is argued that the poor who have to rely on external sources to pay for education may lack credit opportunities or face worse capital market conditions than the rich and are consequently underrepresented among students.1 While contributions supporting this view highlight information frictions in credit arrangements, they put less emphasis on labor market outcomes. (isiarticles.com)
  • A discussion of the capitalist economic system would not be complete without an examination of the issue of externalities incurred within it. (counterpunch.org)
  • What's more, many of the agents that are incurring these costs have no voice with which to protest, resulting in the loss of critical habitats, the breakdown of vital ecosystems, and massive species extinction at a rate not seen since the dinosaurs died off 65 million years ago (a rate 1,000 times higher than the natural rate of extinction due to the human effect on the natural world). (counterpunch.org)
  • In the context of perceived dominion, the economic system would likely fail to assess intrinsic value of resources, as resource value would be dictated based on the value of the natural resource to the human system. (northeastern.edu)
  • Summarising very briefly, capital accumulation may be constrained by inadequate social returns (due, for example, to lack of infrastructure or human capital), by a large wedge between social and private returns (associated, for example, with information and coordination externalities or with government failures) or by a high cost or lack of availability of finance for domestic investment. (epw.in)
  • The combination of patriarchy and the inherently utilitarian perspective of the social power of capital was reflected in the thought of Francis Bacon, the father of modern science (Shiva 2010). (resilience.org)
  • They were the prevalent mode of living in Europe before the consolidation of the capital-nation-state complex and still remain the most important pillar of social reproduction. (resilience.org)
  • For these writers, to be concerned about the environment is to be "anti-human. (strike-the-root.com)
  • In this paper we study human capital investment in an environment of labor market imperfections where all agents have access to educational loans and borrowing constraints are absent. (isiarticles.com)
  • An externality is a cost or benefit that is thrust upon a group that did not choose or cause it. (counterpunch.org)
  • The prevalence of patriarchal relations in society gradually influenced the relation between nature and human societies. (resilience.org)
  • If virtual worlds do become a large part of the daily life of humans, their development may have an impact on the macroeconomies of Earth. (gamestudies.org)
  • The impact is mostly felt by non-human animals. (grn.global)
  • However, this impact is more acute when human-human pandemics emanate, with the economic effect being commensurate to virulence and spread. (grn.global)
  • [2] Karamoja remains the least developed part of the country with lower human development indicators due to limited access to school, poor infrastructure resulting in abject poverty and regional inequality. (grin.com)
  • Capitalist production and accumulation presuppose the availability of the material stuff on which production depends -- raw materials, sources of energy, sinks for disposing of waste. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • Private owners (of capital) control the means of production. (counterpunch.org)
  • To say that something is a necessary background condition means that the capitalist economic system cannot function without it: capitalism's ability to purchase labor power and put it to work, to access raw materials and energy, to produce commodities and sell them at a profit, to accumulate capital, none of that can happen unless these "noneconomic" conditions are in place. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • We study human capital accumulation in the presence of labor search frictions. (isiarticles.com)
  • How we view non-human life dictates whether we view our co-existence as stewardship or dominance and from this the affect on how we measure and view our economic system follows. (northeastern.edu)
  • What we are to adapt to are the parameters of accumulation, sacrificing just enough islands, eco-systems, indigenous - and non-indigenous - cultures to maintain its imperatives for a period of time until new thresholds must be crossed, and new life sacrificed to the pagan idol of capital. (thetedkarchive.com)
  • Instead of reducing computational processes to the instrumentalization of the life-world, her project explores how the logico-cognitive models of computation and their performative executions can challenge the exceptionalism of human thinking stemming from colonial and patriarchal epistemologies. (ici-berlin.org)
  • The role of networks was especially vital in the immediate post-immigration period, because as newcomers to the host society, they lacked locally acquired human capital. (iab.de)
  • And that means that capital accumulation is constrained by kinship relations, birth rates, mortality rates, et cetera. (internationalviewpoint.org)
  • In light of scale construction, human geographers are engaged in reconstructing the global scale and relating it to other scales. (progressingeography.com)
  • These findings introduce new perspectives into globalization research in human geography: framework based on relational network makes it possible to conduct a trans-territorial analysis and to depict a big picture of the reshaping pattern of global economic landscape. (progressingeography.com)
  • In the wider view, in this short period where human activity on a global level has dramatically slowed, communities have evidenced improvement in environmental quality. (northeastern.edu)
  • Rodrik and his coauthors propose an original way, in the form of a decision tree, of going about identifying the most binding constraints on growth or, to be more precise, on physical capital accumulation. (epw.in)
  • For developing countries foreign direct investment (FDI) is considered to be a way to transfer technology and capital from other developing and especially developed countries. (atoom.ru)
  • As a result, the financial sector has been subjected to the combined of pressure of: (1) increased competition from capital markets and foreign financial institutions, and (2) earlier deregulation. (europa.eu)
  • Capital market failure has been identified as an important reason for underinvestment in human capital. (isiarticles.com)
  • We are currently experiencing, without a doubt, the greatest crisis to face human kind. (counterpunch.org)
  • Economic globalization research based on scale-construction in western human geography[J].PROGRESS IN GEOGRAPHY, 2015, 34(9): 1073-1083. (progressingeography.com)
  • This is disquieting due to the harms these viruses carry, with immediate impacts on birds, humans, and the economy. (grn.global)
  • In an unexpected plot twist, it turns out that everyone on the planet was performing the same act - they were all humans pretending to be robots. (shoresofanarres.org)
  • What are the aesthetic forms that are not reducible to the instrumental logic of capital and computation, but generative in the process of decay that we are all unevenly part of? (ici-berlin.org)