Judgement day / Penelope Lively

• Record Nr.: UNINA990004244220403321
• Autore: Lively, Penelope <1933- >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: London : Heinemann, 1981
• Edizione: [Repr.]
• Descrizione fisica: 168 p. ; 23 cm
• Locazione: FLFBC
• Collocazione: P.3 BR.C.1457
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia

Against utility-based economics : on a life-based approach / / Anastasios S. Korkotsides

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910968538503321
• Autore: Korkotsides Anastasios S. <1950-, >
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York : , : Routledge, , 2013
• ISBN: 0-203-74247-8; 1-135-00973-2
• Edizione: [1st ed.]
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (297 p.)
• Collana: Routledge frontiers of political economy ; ; 173
• Disciplina: 330.15/7
• Soggetti: Utility theory; Value; Economics
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: pt. 1. The beast -- pt. 2. Its measurable footprint.
• Sommario/riassunto: <P></P><P>Utility-based theory and the fallback choice-theoretic ; framework are shown to be biased, irremediably flawed and misleading. A radically different theory of value and of consumer behaviour is proposed based on existential interpretations of scarcity, value and self-interest. For self-conscious mortals, only time is scarce. All other is derivative scarcity. Value is in the life, as a knowledge extract of time, which goes into commodities as direct human labour and depreciated capital, through their production. By structuring their preferences, consumers try to confiscate more of such