Capitalism And Commerce In Imaginative Literature

Author : Edward W. Younkins
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 149851930X
Total Pages : 468 pages
Book Rating : 4.04/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Capitalism and Commerce in Imaginative Literature written by Edward W. Younkins and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2016-03-07 with total page 468 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This multidisciplinary collection of essays provides a means to appreciate the richness and variety of fictional portrayals of businesses and businesspersons. The works selected for examination reflect the variety of philosophical, political, economic, cultural, social, and ethical perspectives that have been found in American society over time.

Author : Edward W. Younkins
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739184288
Total Pages : 345 pages
Book Rating : 4.88/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Exploring Capitalist Fiction written by Edward W. Younkins and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-10-24 with total page 345 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Fiction, including novels, plays, and films, can be a powerful force in educating students and employees in ways that lectures, textbooks, articles, case studies, and other traditional teaching approaches cannot. Works of fiction can address a range of issues and topics, provide detailed real-life descriptions of the organizational contexts in which workers find themselves, and tell interesting, engaging, and memorable stories that are richer and more likely to stay with the reader or viewer longer than lectures and other teaching approaches. For these reasons, Exploring Capitalist Fiction: Business through Literature and Film analyzes 25 films, novels, and plays that engage the theories, concepts, and issues most relevant to the business world. Through critical examinations of works such as Atlas Shrugged and Wall Street, Younkins shows how fiction is a powerful teaching tool to sensitize business students without business experience and to educate and train managers in real businesses.

Author : Matt Spivey
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793634483
Total Pages : 141 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Re-Reading Economics in Literature written by Matt Spivey and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-09-30 with total page 141 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Austrian economic thought, “human action” guides all social and cultural experience. For both the real world and for fictional texts, this starting point can illuminate literature in new ways and offer valuable insight for literary critics who have previously been beholden to Marxism and other anti-capitalist perspectives. In Re-Reading Economics in Literature: A Capitalist Critical Perspective, Matt Spivey posits that in its relationship to literature, Austrian economic criticism entails a methodology that embraces the following: 1) an analytical reading that promotes both the individual artist as the creator of literature and the individual reader as the consumer of literature; 2) an understanding of the entrepreneurial quality of literature, that capitalism is a system that embraces creativity and evolution in the marketplace; and 3) a recognition of subjective value as fundamental to human choice and action, both in art and in the real world. In addition to the study of the individual, Spivey also incorporates the concepts of business cycles, government intervention, social dynamics, and technological evolution in his analysis. Scholars of literary studies and economics will find this book particularly useful.

Author : Ed Younkins
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498546102
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.02/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Perspectives on Ayn Rand's Contributions to Economic and Business Thought written by Ed Younkins and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2018-10-15 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Ayn Rand wrote and lectured on economic concepts and topics. This volume addresses the economic and business aspects of her writings. The authors of this anthology are from a variety of fields and all of them are enthusiastic supporters of her ideas.

Author : Kathleen Touchstone
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498597009
Total Pages : 249 pages
Book Rating : 4.05/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Freedom, Eudaemonia, and Risk written by Kathleen Touchstone and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-12-04 with total page 249 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Kathleen Touchstone applies the philosophies of Objectivism, rule-utilitarianism, and neo-Aristotelianism to strategies of risk management. She proposes a risk index model which accounts for probability, virtue, and consequences, utilizing philosophical insight into the gauging of success.

Author : Brian P. Simpson
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1793612218
Total Pages : 323 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Declaration and Constitution for a Free Society written by Brian P. Simpson and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2021-03-09 with total page 323 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What are individual rights? What is freedom? How are they related to each other? Why are they so crucial to human life? How do you protect them? These are some of the questions that A Declaration and Constitution for a Free Society answers. The book uses Objectivist philosophy—the philosophy of Ayn Rand—to analyze subjective, intrinsic, and objective theories of rights and show why rights and freedom are objective necessities of human life. This knowledge is then used to make changes to the Declaration of Independence and U.S. Constitution. Through these changes, the book shows the fundamental legal requirements of a free society and why we should create such a society. It demonstrates why a free society is morally, politically, and economically beneficial to human beings.

Author : Ryan H. Murphy
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498591191
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.95/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Markets against Modernity written by Ryan H. Murphy and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2019-11-08 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Markets Against Modernity, economist Ryan Murphy documents a clear continuity between the systematic errors people make in their personal lives and the gaps between public opinion and informed opinion. These errors cluster around specific divergences between how the modern world’s institutions function—including global markets, pluralistic democracy, and even science itself—and how evolution trained our brains to understand the nature of economic relationships, social relationships, and humanity’s relationship to the physical world. Murphy calls these systematic divergences Ecological Irrationality. Exploring them leads him to even more prickly questions—and to conclusions that may challenge the beliefs of those who understand that, for instance, modern vaccines are safe and effective. Do we actually want a less cohesive society? Is doing a task yourself financially prudent? And if we recognize an expert consensus, is there even a way to implement it and achieve the desired effects?

Author : Clifford F. Thies
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498546161
Total Pages : 255 pages
Book Rating : 4.64/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Global Economics written by Clifford F. Thies and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-07-07 with total page 255 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Global Economics looks beyond the mere interaction of national economies as is implied by the term 'international economics.' It examines the integration of national economies into the emerging global economy. In keeping with the subtitle A Holistic Approach, the book considers the roles of technology, political arrangements, the rule of law, natural resources, climate change, social institutions and values, in addition to the role of economics (narrowly defined). In fact, recourse to abstract economic analysis is restrained, and discussion is replete with concrete examples and case studies. Specific topics include trade theory, policy and agreements, foreign exchange, exchange rate determination and hedging, international capital and labor flows, financial crises and development. The book details the changes that took place with the Industrial Revolution and the subsequent spread of market economics and democratic government. It develops the classic theory of comparative advantage, and then applies and extends the theory to explain the complex trade patterns of today. It uses game theory to analyze trade policy, and the tragedy of the commons to address the resource curse. The book covers topics such as the relationship of defense to trade policy not typically considered by international economics, in addition to taking a fresh approach to the traditional topics.

Author : Mateusz Machaj
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 1498557554
Total Pages : 215 pages
Book Rating : 4.59/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Money, Interest, and the Structure of Production written by Mateusz Machaj and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2017-10-05 with total page 215 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is macroeconomic equilibrium possible under capitalism? How do economic bubbles develop? How does a monetary system influence the market mechanism? Is the return on capital a beneficial feature of the economic system? How does complexity of a capitalist organization influence the market process? Can output under capitalism be easily measured and modeled? Such questions and many others relate to the central concept discussed in the book: heterogeneous structure of production, an envisioned theoretical connection between stages of the capitalist process. An inquiry into the functioning of a capital structure is necessary to understand the workings of the interest rate, savings, aggregate demand, and economic growth. Additionally it provides a theoretical framework to recognize consequences of monetary regimes and interest rate policies performed by the central banks. Capital structure concepts have their place at the center of economic theory as they can provide a broad range of insights into our understanding of the real world. Money, Interest, and the Structure of Production offers key insights in that direction.

Author : Robert White
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
ISBN 13 : 1498542646
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.47/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Moral Case for Profit Maximization written by Robert White and published by Rowman & Littlefield. This book was released on 2020-04-01 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Moral Case for Profit Maximization argues that profit maximization is moral when businessmen seek to maximize profit by creating goods or services that are of objective value. Traditionally, profit maximization has been defended on economic grounds. Profit, economists argue, incentivizes businessmen to produce goods and services. In this view, businessmen do not need to be virtuous as long as they deliver the goods. It challenges the traditional defense of profit maximization, arguing that profit maximization is morally ambitious because it requires businessmen to form normative abstractions and to cultivate a virtuous character. In so doing, the author also challenges the moral basis of corporate social responsibility. Proponents of CSR argue that businessmen can do good while doing well. This book argues that businessmen already do good by maximizing profit, drawing upon the histories of the wheel, the refrigerator, and the shipping container, as well as the biographies of J. P. Morgan, John D. Rockefeller, and Thomas Edison to demonstrate the role of values in the creation of material goods and the role of the virtues in value creation. The author challenges readers to rethink the relationship between profit, value, and virtue.