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Economics of Intangibles
Gary ZatzmanRafiqul Islam
出版Nova Publishers, 2007
主題Business & Economics / GeneralBusiness & Economics / Economics / MicroeconomicsBusiness & Economics / Economics / GeneralLaw / Property
ISBN16002131629781600213168
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=TBbPArT2KnoC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋Up to now, economics as a branch of social science has been concerned mainly to map the commercial and financial relations of Humanity, including a wide variety of institutions spawned to sustain livelihoods within these relations. Although these relationships, qua relations, are by definition intangible, the forms by which these relations are expressed - and in which they may even be quantified, predicted and managed - are all tangible. Thus we arrive at the tantalizing paradox wherein, for economists, tangibles seem to occupy the entire space of interest, even though that which has given rise to their very field in the first place are actually social relations that remain utterly intangible. this veil uncovers something very strange. To the extent that tangible economic activity takes quantifiable form, it is possible to generalize about the forms themselves and/or to verify them, without reference to any further information as to the intent, conscience or consciousness of those who gave rise to these activities in the first place. trumpeted as the economists' greatest success (as social scientists). This book presents the many quintessential elements of economics from all around the globe.