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Antecedent and Ontology: In Search of the Smallest Possible A Priori
The objective of this chapter is to reflect on the possibility of a minimal ontology of law, in other words the lowest common denominator between all...
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Metaphysics, Ontology, and Metaphysical Theories
As this book intends to establish the nature of the economy and of the fundamental elements in the economic realm, its first goal is to determine...
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The Metaphysics and Ontology of the Economy
This chapter sets out to answer two questions: first, what is the nature of the economy as a general reality? and, second, what are its constituents?...
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Christian Humanism: Fatherhood, Economics, and Relational Ontology
In continuity with the first two chapters of the second part, Giulio Maspero’s thesis is that the cultural dimensions to which one must turn in order...
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A Knowledge Model for IoT-Enabled Smart Banking
With the evolution of technologies around the world, a new era of smart communities is evolving. Research on smart communities has risen in the past...
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In Search of Commonalities: Ubuntu and the Transcultural Approach
This chapter develops the view that the relational turn in the social sciences finds a dialogue partner in the relational ontologies of some more...
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How to Study Inequality of the Finance Capitalism Era
This chapter offers the investigatory strategy that elaborates the approaches and methods undertaken. A critical realist orientation as a...
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Leadership in Multi-stakeholder Partnerships (MSPs) that Address the SDGs: Relational Leadership and Ubuntu in Dialogue
In the interest of advancing our understanding of leadership in multi-sector partnerships (MSPs) that address the Sustainable Development Goals...
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Magic and Marxism: Valuing Enchantment in the Maya Political Economy
Anthropologists have shown that many cultures across the globe do not consider the natural world and the cultural world as separate but rather...
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Individual and social fides: the contribution of Reformation to the ontology of economics
This essay wishes to address what is believed to be a central historical crossroad that allowed the development of economics, and other social...
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Method
I believe social reality to exist with objective content independent of the human mind, and to exist as a multiplicity of beings: the variety of ways...
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An Introduction to Biopolitics and Shock Economy of COVID-19: Medical Perspectives and Socioeconomic Dynamics
This edited volume on the biopolitics and shock economy of COVID-19 crisis embraces a wide spectrum of topics such as shock economy, medical...
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Metaphysical Midwifery and the Living Legacy of Nicholas Georgescu-Roegen
Although classified by many as a sub-field of economics, ecological economics was originally conceived of, in the late 1980s, as a transdiscipline,...
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Algorithm and Affective Politics of Molecular Traversal: The Free Software Movement
This chapter presents a new political theory of affect, focusing on the politics of cooperation and collaboration developed in the relational...
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The Metaphysics of Social Collectives
Once established the metaphysic nature of the economy and of the economic agent as deciding and acting subject, and also as worker, we need to...
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Discussing the Foundations for Interpretivist Digital Government Research
As the research domain of digital government continues to develop as an important body of scholarly research, it is important to understand the core...
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Environmental Factors’ Moderating Effect on Intangible Organizational Resources and Performance of Insurance Brokers in Zambia
This research examines the moderating effect of environmental factors on the relationship between intangible organizational resources and the...
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Worlds Lost and Found: Regional Science Contributions in Support of Collective Decision-Making for Collective Action
In this chapter I present a survey of contributions made by regional scientists in recent decades that provide capacity to spatial planners and urban...
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On Coordination in Non-Cooperative Game Theory Explaining How and Why an Equilibrium Occurs and Prevails
By offering a critical assessment of the evolution of standard game theory, this book argues for a shift in the ontology and methodology of game...
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Socialist Arguments for Basic Income
Casassas, Raventós, and Szlinder set out from the position that the socialist tradition is heir to the main cornerstones of the old republican...