Essays about: "Capital Accumulation"

Showing result 26 - 30 of 89 essays containing the words Capital Accumulation.

1. 26. Homarus Corporatus: Investigating the state-firm-resource nexus in the Canadian offshore lobster fishery

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

   Author : Naima Kraushaar-Friesen; [2021]
   Keywords : Marxian political economy; critical resource geography; capture fisheries; Social Sciences;

   Abstract : Lobster production in Nova Scotia has been expanding for three decades, and a single firm, the vertically integrated, Canadian-based seafood company Clearwater Seafoods Inc., has gained exclusive control over the offshore lobster fishery. READ MORE

3. 27. Separatism and cooperation : Democratic participation, asset-building and narrative representations in  The Women’s Cooperative Society Swedish Homes, 1904-1916

   University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för ekonomisk historia och internationella relationer

   Author : Anders Jacobson; [2021]
   Keywords : cooperation; separatism; separatist cooperation; cooperative movement; women’s cooperatives; Kvinnornas Andelsförening Svenska Hem; Kooperativa Förbundet; feminism; de-alienation; reconstruction; intersectionality; alternative institutions; kooperation; kooperativ; separatism; separatistisk kooperation; kvinnokooperativ; Kvinnornas Andelsförening Svenska Hem; Kooperativa Förbundet;

   Abstract : Within the context of economic history, this case study discusses “separatist cooperation” as an organizational and economic strategy for addressing multiple forms of alienation and inequality. Unique in the European cooperative movement at the time, The Women’s Cooperative Society Swedish Homes (Kvinnornas Andelsförening Svenska Hem), active in Stockholm 1905-1916, is a case in point. READ MORE

4. 28. From Wall Street to Brazil: The Financialization of the Brazilian Economy as a Driver of Increasing Inequalities

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

   Author : Guilherme Oliveira Coutinho; [2021]
   Keywords : financialization; inequality; recommodification; Social Sciences; Business and Economics;

   Abstract : The Brazilian economy is now financialized, where the finance sector and its priorities have become increasingly dominant in all aspects of the economy. At the same time, the country has been facing extremely high levels of inequality and is currently the 8th most unequal country in the world. READ MORE

5. 29. The Role of Capital Taxation in Sweden: Inheritance and Wealth Accumulation over the Lifecycle

   University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi

   Author : Fanny Franov Johansson; [2020]
   Keywords : Inequality; Capital Tax; Overlapping Generations;

   Abstract : Against the backdrop of increasing levels of wealth inequality in the Swedish economy, this thesis will deploy a large scale overlapping generations model with heterogeneous ability groups to evaluate the behavioral responses of individuals across the lifecycle as well as distributional and efficiency impacts of tax policy. Specifically, the paper will examine effects resulting from a reintroduction of inheritance taxation and varying rates of increase in the capital income tax rate. READ MORE

6. 30. Welcome to Nowhere

   University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för arkitektur och byggd miljö

   Author : Tara Fartash-Naini; [2020]
   Keywords : Architecture; Globalization; Urbanization; Consumerism; Dubai; Fragmented city; Homogenous Landscapes; Iconic Architecture; Arts and Architecture;

   Abstract : We live in a world built on consumerist values and a spatial rationale of capital accumulation. This modern society has led to architecture thriving through super consumption and super production ultimately leading to the generic. Cities and spaces that were usually rich in variation and texture have now become an architectural melting pot. READ MORE