1st Edition
Against Utility-Based Economics On a Life-Based Approach
By Anastasios Korkotsides
Copyright 2013
296 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
296 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
296 Pages
5 B/W Illustrations
by
Routledge
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Utility-based theory and the fallback choice-theoretic framework are shown to be biased, irremediably flawed and misleading. A radically different theory of value and of consumer behaviour is proposed based on existential interpretations of scarcity, value and self-interest. For self-conscious mortals, only time is scarce. All other is derivative scarcity. Value is in the life, as a knowledge... Read more
Part I: The Beast 1. Introduction 2. Debunking Utility 3. Consumption in Social Context: On conceptual and other alchemy 4. Consuming Live: On goodness and rationality 5. On Life-Based Value: Consumption in Marx Part II: Its Measurable Footprint 6. Analytics 7. Epilogue
Biography
Anastasios S. Korkotsides
