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The Accumulation of Capital
Rosa Luxemburg was a revolutionary socialist who fought and died for her beliefs.In January 1919, after being arrested for her involvement in a workers' uprising in Berlin, she was brutally murdered by a group of right-wing soldiers.Her body was recovered days later from a canal. Six years earlier she had published what was undoubtedly her finest achievement, The Accumulation of Capital - a book which remains one of the masterpieces of socialist literature.Taking Marx as her starting point, she offers an independent and fiercely critical explanation of the economic and political consequences of capitalism in the context of the turbulent times in which she lived, reinterpreting events in the United States, Europe, China, Russia and the British Empire.Many today believe there is no alternative to global capitalism.This book is a timely and forceful statement of an opposing view.
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Wealth Accumulation and Entrepreneurship in the Ottoman Empire, 18th to 20th Centuries
This book provides a significant contribution to our understanding of the Ottoman Empire’s economic history, particularly through its exploration of local entrepreneurship, which brings new perspectives to the economic dynamics of the region. This focus adds a valuable dimension to the broader narrative of Mediterranean social and economic developments from the 18th to the 20th century.By emphasizing the role of both Muslim and non-Muslim agents, the work challenges more Eurocentric narratives that have often influenced the historiography of economic activities in this region.The inclusion of Ottoman, Turkish, and Greek sources underlines the importance of accessing voices and records that have been underutilized in previous studies.The fact that this project is a result of Greek–Turkish academic cooperation is particularly noteworthy, as it promotes a more nuanced and comprehensive view toward shared histories in order to shed light on complex historical phenomena. This work will be of interest to scholars of Ottoman and Mediterranean history seeking to explore the nuances of economic and social change from within the Ottoman Empire.It will also appeal to a wider audience interested in the history of early entrepreneurial activities and the complex interplay between cultural and economic dynamics in historical contexts.
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The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation
The Romantic Rhetoric of Accumulation provides an account of the long arc of dispossession from the British Romantic period to today.Lenora Hanson glimpses histories of subsistence (such as reproductive labor, vagrancy and criminality, and unwaged labor) as figural ways of living that are superfluous—simultaneously more than enough to live and less than what is necessary for capitalism. Hanson treats rhetorical language as an archive of capital's accumulation through dispossession, in works by S.T.Coleridge, Edmund Burke, Mary Robinson, William Wordsworth, Benjamin Moseley, Joseph Priestley, and Alexander von Humboldt, as well as in contemporary film and critical theory.Reading riots through apostrophe, enclosure through anachronism, superstition and witchcraft through tautology, and the paradoxical coincidence of subsistence living with industrialization, Hanson shows the figural to be a material record of the survival of non-capitalist forms of life within capitalism.But this survival is not always-already resistant to capitalism, nor are the origins of capital accumulation confined to the Romantic past.Hanson reveals rhetorical figure as entwined in deeply ambivalent ways with the circuitous, ongoing process of dispossession.Reading both historically and rhetorically, Hanson argues that rhetorical language records histories of dispossession and the racialized, gendered distribution of the labor of subsistence.Romanticism, they show, is more contemporary than ever.
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External Validity and Evidence Accumulation
The accumulation of empirical evidence that has been collected in multiple contexts, places, and times requires a more comprehensive understanding of empirical research than is typically required for interpreting the findings from individual studies.We advance a novel conceptual framework where causal mechanisms are central to characterizing social phenomena that transcend context, place, or time.We distinguish various concepts of external validity, all of which characterize the relationship between the effects produced by mechanisms in different settings.Approaches to evidence accumulation require careful consideration of cross-study features, including theoretical considerations that link constituent studies and measurement considerations about how phenomena are quantifed.Our main theoretical contribution is developing uniting principles that constitute the qualitative and quantitative assumptions that form the basis for a quantitative relationship between constituent studies.We then apply our framework to three approaches to studying general social phenomena: meta-analysis, replication, and extrapolation.
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What is erosion and accumulation?
Erosion is the process by which soil and rock are gradually worn away by natural forces such as water, wind, and ice. This can occur over long periods of time and can result in the formation of valleys, canyons, and other landforms. Accumulation, on the other hand, is the process by which eroded material is deposited in a new location, often leading to the formation of sedimentary layers or new landforms such as deltas and alluvial fans. Both erosion and accumulation are important natural processes that shape the Earth's surface over time.
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What are rational numbers as accumulation points?
Rational numbers as accumulation points refer to the property of rational numbers where they can be approached arbitrarily closely by other rational numbers. This means that for any rational number, there exists a sequence of rational numbers that converges to it. In other words, rational numbers can serve as accumulation points for sequences of rational numbers that get closer and closer to them. This property is important in understanding the density of rational numbers on the number line.
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How do you determine the accumulation point?
To determine the accumulation point of a set, you need to find the limit points of the set. A point is an accumulation point if every neighborhood of the point contains at least one point of the set other than the point itself. In other words, a point is an accumulation point if it is a limit point of the set. To determine the accumulation point, you can analyze the behavior of the set as it approaches different points and see where it clusters or accumulates.
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What is the proof for the accumulation point?
The proof for the accumulation point involves showing that for any neighborhood around the point, there exists at least one point in the set different from the accumulation point. This can be done by assuming the contrary, where no such point exists, and then arriving at a contradiction. By using the definition of neighborhoods and the properties of the set, one can formally demonstrate the existence of points in the set that are arbitrarily close to the accumulation point.
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Accumulation : The Art, Architecture, and Media of Climate Change
Examines how images of accumulation help open up the climate to political mobilization The current epoch is one of accumulation: not only of capital but also of raw, often unruly material, from plastic in the ocean and carbon in the atmosphere to people, buildings, and cities.Alongside this material growth, image-making practices embedded within the fields of art and architecture have proven to be fertile, mobile, and capacious.Images of accumulation help open up the climate to cultural inquiry and political mobilization and have formed a cultural infrastructure focused on the relationships between humans, other species, and their environments. The essays in Accumulation address this cultural infrastructure and the methodological challenges of its analysis.They offer a response to the relative invisibility of the climate now seen as material manifestations of social behavior.Contributors outline opportunities and ambitions of visual scholarship as a means to encounter the challenges emergent in the current moment: how can climate become visible, culturally and politically?Knowledge of climatic instability can change collective behavior and offer other trajectories, counteraccumulations that draw the present into a different, more livable, future. Contributors: Emily Apter, New York U; Hans Baumann; Amanda Boeztkes, U of Guelph; Dominic Boyer, Rice U; Lindsay Bremner, U of Westminster; Nerea Calvillo, U of Warwick; Beth Cullen, U of Westminster; T.J. Demos, U of California, Santa Cruz; Jeff Diamanti, U of Amsterdam; Jennifer Ferng, U of Sydney; Jennifer Gabrys, U of Cambridge; Ian Gray, U of California, Los Angeles; Gökçe Günel, Rice U; Orit Halpern, Concordia U; Gabrielle Hecht, Stanford U; Cymene Howe, Rice U; Wendy Hui Kyong Chun, Simon Fraser U; Robin Kelsey, Harvard U; Bruno Latour, Sciences Po, Paris; Hannah le Roux, U of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg; Stephanie LeMenager, U of Oregon; Nashin Mahtani; Kiel Moe, McGill U; Karen Pinkus, Cornell U; Stephanie Wakefield, Life U; McKenzie Wark, The New School; Kathryn Yusoff, Queen Mary U of London.
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Accumulation and Constraint : Biomedical Development and Advanced Industrial Health
"Accumulation and Constraint examines the dynamic world of advanced industrial health, exploring it as a means to better understand the internal differences in biomedical development (pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, medical devices) and health care reform, delivery and restructuring.Rodney Loeppky suggests that it is because of intensified industrial competitive pressure that health production has grown so robustly across the countries of the Organization for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD).Loeppky also argues that there are important national, systemic differences, particularly in health care delivery, that place limits on the quest for economic gain through biomedical innovation.Using a political economy framework, Loeppky emphasizes the transitions to capitalism of industrial states - particularly the United States, Canada and Germany - as a critical point of development that shaped their contemporary handling of biomedical production and health."
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Ricardo's Theory of Growth and Accumulation : A Modern View
In the aftermath of the Napoleonic Wars Britain found itself faced with a stagnant economy.Economist David Ricardo believed that the full re-integration of Britain into the world market would allow for both capital accumulation and population growth, and used arguments that anticipate ideas entertained in modern contributions to the theory of economic growth and development.However, several of these arguments have not yet been translated into the language of modern classical economics.Ricardo’s Theory of Growth and Accumulation seeks to overcome this striking lacuna. The latest entry in the Graz Schumpeter lecture series, this text explores and elaborates Ricardo’s arguments and the models utilized by those who subsequently followed in support of his work.The Ricardian system is first examined through a one-sector economy, following Kaldor’s model, and a two-sector economy, following Pasinetti’s model.These building blocks are developed through the exploration of a small open economy, which allows an analysis of the impact of international trade in exceedingly simple circumstances.This discussion expands further by considering the world economy.More sophisticated variants of the two-sector model are presented, in which commodity prices are endogenously determined by the trading interplay amongst several countries.A final analysis makes Ricardo’s case by introducing accumulation in the world economy. This book is of interest to students and scholars of Ricardo, classical economics, and – more broadly – growth theory, the theory of international economics, and globalization.The author was keen to render the analytical parts compelling to the historian and the historical parts compelling to the theorist.
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Capitalism in Contemporary Iran : Capital Accumulation, State Formation and Geopolitics
This book traces the patterns of capital accumulation and the changes in class and state formation emanating from it in Iran during the global neoliberal era.It demonstrates how there are inner connections between the nature of contemporary development in Iran, the form of the state, the ongoing sociopolitical transformations in society and the geopolitical tensions with the West.Simultaneously, it highlights that these issues should be explored in terms of their internal relations to the motions and tendencies of neoliberal global capitalism and resulting geopolitics.Accordingly, the book demonstrates that Iranian neoliberalisation has brought about new contested class dynamics that have fundamentally reconstructed the Iranian ruling class, aggressively shaped and reshaped the working class and the poor, and drastically impacted the state form and its foreign policy. -- .
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What causes the water accumulation under the freezer?
The water accumulation under the freezer is typically caused by a clogged or frozen defrost drain. When the defrost drain is blocked, water from the defrost cycle cannot properly drain and ends up pooling under the freezer. This can happen due to food particles, debris, or ice blocking the drain. Regularly cleaning the drain and ensuring it is clear of obstructions can help prevent water accumulation under the freezer.
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What are the accumulation points of this sequence?
The accumulation points of a sequence are the values towards which the sequence converges or accumulates. In the sequence, we can see that the terms alternate between 1 and -1. Therefore, the accumulation points of this sequence are 1 and -1. This is because as the sequence progresses, it gets arbitrarily close to both 1 and -1, but never settles on a single value.
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Is infinity an accumulation point of the sequence?
Yes, infinity is an accumulation point of the sequence if for any positive real number M, there exists a natural number N such that for all n greater than or equal to N, the absolute value of the difference between the n-th term of the sequence and infinity is less than M. In other words, as the sequence progresses, the terms get arbitrarily close to infinity. Therefore, infinity is an accumulation point of the sequence.
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How can one describe capital accumulation and depletion?
Capital accumulation refers to the process of increasing the stock of capital goods, such as machinery, equipment, and infrastructure, in an economy. This can occur through investment in new capital goods, technological advancements, and improvements in human capital. On the other hand, capital depletion refers to the reduction in the stock of capital goods, which can happen due to wear and tear, obsolescence, or lack of investment in maintenance and replacement. Both accumulation and depletion of capital have significant impacts on the productivity and growth potential of an economy.
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