1.

Record Nr.

UNINA990004244220403321

Autore

Lively, Penelope <1933- >

Titolo

Judgement day / Penelope Lively

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

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910705867103321

Titolo

Department of Veterans Affairs Bonus Transparency Act : report (to accompany H.R. 1690) (including cost estimate of the Congressional Budget Office)

Pubbl/distr/stampa

[Washington, D.C.] : , : [U.S. Government Publishing Office], , 2017

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (8 pages)

Collana

Report / 115th Congress, 1st session, House of Representatives ; ; 115-249

Soggetti

Bonuses (Employee fringe benefits) - United States

Government executives - Salaries, etc - United States

Government accountability - United States

Transparency in government - Law and legislation - United States

Legislative materials.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

"July 24, 2017."



3.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910968538503321

Autore

Korkotsides Anastasios S. <1950-, >

Titolo

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

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