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A New Perspective on Planned Obsolescence
Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1993Automobile manufacturers have long had a policy of introducing annual style changes into their new model cars. Textbook publishers have a policy of periodically bringing out revised editions of their popular books. Recently, IBM changed the operating system used in its personal computers causing a reduction in the compatibility between its old and new ...
Michael Waldman
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This paper examines the decision to introduce new products by durable goods producers. Conventional wisdom suggests that durable goods producers introduce new products to kill off used products. However, used units may not compete with new units if initial price can capture the present value of all future transactions. Using new data from the textbook
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The Planned Obsolescence of TV Journalism
2015Labor resides at the center of all media and communication production, from the workers who create the information technologies that form the dynamic core of the global capitalist system and the designers who create media content to the salvage workers who dismantle the industry's high-tech trash.
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Planned Obsolescence and the R&D Decision
The RAND Journal of Economics, 1996By investing in RD i.e., the R&D choice that maximizes current profitability does not maximize overall profitability. The result is that if output is sold rather than rented, then in its R&D decision the monopolist has an incentive to practice a type of planned obsolescence that lowers its own profitability.
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Functional Obsolescence in the Planned Environment
Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space, 1972This paper introduces the theoretical basis for investigating obsolescence that has resulted from the preliminary stage of an ongoing research programme. A specification for model building is included.
B Nutt, D Sears
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The Planned Obsolescence of “Nosedive”
2019“Nosedive” addresses a number of social concerns that have arisen over the ubiquitous use of the social media alongside a recognition of the growth of audit culture and the way new forms of classificatory systems are emerging because of it. The episode draws attention to aspects of the quantified self, big data discourse, the simulacra involved in ...
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Planning Obsolescence: Bramante at St. Peter’s
Journal of the Society of Architectural HistoriansAbstract This article revisits the early phases of the sixteenth-century reconstruction of St. Peter’s Basilica, particularly the vision of a cyclically regenerating building adopted by its first architect, Donato Bramante, to reveal mechanisms of planned obsolescence embedded in his project.
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An Economic Theory of Planned Obsolescence
The Quarterly Journal of Economics, 1986"Planned Obsolescence" is the production of goods with uneconomically short useful lives so that customers will have to make repeat purchases. However, rational customers will pay for only the present value of the future services of a product. Therefore, profit maximization seemingly implies producing any given flow of services as cheaply as possible ...
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The Planned Obsolescence of Language
The Planned Obsolescence of Language is the first part of the first volume, The Conspiracy of Speech, in THE MISCOMMUNICATION TRILOGY. It establishes the theoretical and philosophical foundation upon which the entire trilogy is built. By diagnosing the structural decay of language, it prepares the ground for the broader investigation of ...openaire +1 more source