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The economic surplus: A history of an eventually problematic idea

open access: yesEconomic Affairs, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 45-61, February 2025.
Abstract The economy‐wide economic surplus, defined as output beyond what is needed to sustain the labouring workforce, is one of the oldest ideas in Western political economy. Marx permanently changed economic thinking by characterising it as exploitation. As confidence in government management of economic affairs grew in the twentieth century, how to
Evan W Osborne
wiley   +1 more source

Liquid homeownership: Navigating future horizons to turn homeownership into assets in Bucharest, Romania

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, Volume 12, Issue 1, January 2025.
Abstract This article examines the financialization and assetization of housing in an Eastern European context by focusing on the specific temporally bounded financial strategies to maintain housing as an asset and vehicle for social reproduction. It proposes the concept of liquid homeownership to account for the varied associations of housing with ...
Alexandra Ciocanel
wiley   +1 more source

A promise is a promise: A love letter from the ACH to the world of 2050†

open access: yesEconomic Anthropology, Volume 12, Issue 1, January 2025.
ABSTRACT Experiments in money often recapitulate long‐standing human concerns over finality and fixity, despite money's reference points in political authority, trust, and the memorialization of relationships of credit and debt. From the point of view of the primary set of infrastructures facilitating the movement of money in 2050, those concerns are ...
Bill Maurer
wiley   +1 more source

More Than Knowledge: Consumer Financial Capability and Saving Behavior

open access: yesInternational Journal of Consumer Studies, Volume 49, Issue 1, January 2025.
ABSTRACT This paper explores the association between financial capability, defined broadly through different constituents, and households' savings behavior. Using a survey conducted to a sample of 1501 consumers, the results, correcting for endogeneity, indicate that in order to explain savings behavior: (i) knowledge about investment products (funds ...
Laura Núñez‐Letamendia   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

The Desirability of Automizing Labor: An Overview

open access: yesPhilosophy Compass, Volume 20, Issue 1-2, January-February 2025.
ABSTRACT The debate about the impact and desirability of automizing labor is one that emerges alongside every major technological development. In recent years, attention for the potential ethical and social implications of automizing labor increased once again, in response to the successes and promises of artificial intelligence (AI) and other modern ...
Rosalie A. Waelen
wiley   +1 more source

Leigh, Andrew (2024) The Shortest History of Economics Black Inc. Books

open access: yes
Australian Economic Review, Volume 58, Issue 1, Page 39-40, March 2025.
Laura Panza 
wiley   +1 more source

Not just the top five journals: A recipe for European economists

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Economic Affairs, Volume 45, Issue 1, Page 123-131, February 2025.
Magnus Henrekson   +2 more
wiley   +1 more source

T.S. Eliot, Post‐War Geopolitics and ‘Eastern Europe’

open access: yes
Critical Quarterly, Volume 66, Issue 3, Page 51-71, October 2024.
Juliette Bretan
wiley   +1 more source

Islamic economics: Intertemporal prices, interest rates and discount rates

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Economic Affairs, Volume 44, Issue 3, Page 582-588, October 2024.
Gerald R Steele
wiley   +1 more source

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