1。為什麼越發達,工作時間越長,壓力越大?
2。為什麼科技提升了,eradication of poverty仍不可及?
3。Great depression已是80年前,為何仍預測不了financial crisis?
資本的演化
福山:liberal democracy of N America and Western Europe is the final stage of human history because … based on free-enterprise capitalism … satisfy humankind’s needs …
Derrida: never have poverty… affected as much people…
Darwin: Misery of poor caused by institutions but not nature?
Ideology意識形態
Wealth gap
15%occupy 80% of wealth
Self sufficient economy alpha male (no economic status, only political status)
Hunting: meat sharing
Barter economy
沒有利潤
Agricultural revolution surpluss population growth 定居 village and town greater division of labour ruling class(no longer從事生產) 貢獻(tribute)
Money Market economy specialization profit motive
ExpolitationThe institutionalized expropriation of the fruits of labour of other people
政府不能直接生產
稅收令他們的水平高於人民平均生活水平
地主(產權私有)─土地兼併
原始expoitation: tax and rent taxation 鞏固ruling class class oppression
History of profit
Trade for exchanging those you don’t have with those you have
Business for making a living
Money: for flexibility
Different from capitalist’s profit
小商戶:simple reproduction capitalist: 擴大再生產
CMC/MM’
商貿資本/工業資本 buy cheap and sell high long distance trade asymmetry of information monopoly: reduce competition capital accumulation agrarian capitalism industrial capitalism
Industrial revolution
Capitalism
Poverty, unemployment
Urbanization
Markket economy
Capital is not wealth pure social relation through creating profit constantly to make one’s wealth grows definition: making profit is a goal, not method
有大財富而不停增值:capitalist
big enterprise: gross profits-cost(inc all salaries and expenses that are tax exempted) distribute to share re investment make more money what is capitalism
Means of production: private ownership
Occupied by a small proportion of people
Free market: trade goods
Waged labourInterest: cost of capital
Rent: cost of