Against utility-based economics : on a life-based approach / / Anastasios S. Korkotsides
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Korkotsides Anastasios S. <1950-, >
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| Titolo: |
Against utility-based economics : on a life-based approach / / Anastasios S. Korkotsides
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| Pubblicazione: | New York : , : Routledge, , 2013 |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (297 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 330.15/7 |
| Soggetto topico: | Utility theory |
| Value | |
| Economics | |
| Soggetto genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Against utility-based economics |
| ISBN: | 0-203-74247-8 |
| 1-135-00973-2 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910463030703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
Routledge Frontiers of Political Economy