Intangible Flow Theory in Economics: Human Participation in Economic and Societal Production - Rilegato

Cardao-Pito, Tiago

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ISBN 10: 1138298654 ISBN 13: 9781138298651

Casa editrice: Routledge, 2020

Riassunto

The dominant economic explanations of the 20th century are not comprehensive enough to describe the complexity of economy and society and their reliance on the biosphere. Intangible Flow Theory in Economics: Human Participation in Economic and Societal Production outlines a new theory that challenges both economics and the relativism conveyed in social constructivism, poststructuralism and postmodernism. To mainstream economics and Marxism, monetary flows transform us humans into commodities. To this new theory, flows of economic elements as physical goods or money are consummated by intangible flows that cannot yet be precisely appraised at an actual or approximate value, for instance, workflows, service flows, information flows or communicational flows. The theory suggests a systematic alternative to refute the human commodity framework and interrelated conjectures (e.g. human capital, human resources, human assets). Furthermore, it exhibits that economic and societal production is fully integrated on the biosphere. Conversely, contemporary relativism argues for the end of theory development, suspension of evidence and entrenchment of knowledge validity among local systems (named as paradigms, epistemes, research programs, truth regimes or other terms). Thus, relativism tacitly supports dominant theories as the human commodity framework because it preventively sabotages the creation of new theoretical explanations. Disputing relativist theses, intangible flow theory demonstrates that innovative theoretical explanations remain possible. This book is of significant interest to students and scholars of political economy, economic sociology, organization, economics and social theory.

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Informazioni sull?autore

Tiago Cardao-Pito is an assistant professor at ISEG, Universidade de Lisboa (University of Lisbon), Portugal.

Dettagli dell'edizione

• Editore: Routledge
• Data di pubblicazione: 2020
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 1138298654
• ISBN 13: 9781138298651
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 334
• Contatto del produttore: Taylor and Francis, GPSR Taylor and Francis; gpsr@taylorandfrancis.com; ; Taylor & Francis Verlag GmbH, Kaufingerstraße 24; München; 80331; Germania