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Blood, Organs And Other Tissues For Sale: Diamela Eltit's Impuesto A La Carne And The Afterwards Of The Neoliberal Development In Latin America., Wanda I. Ocasio- Rivera Oct 2012

Blood, Organs And Other Tissues For Sale: Diamela Eltit's Impuesto A La Carne And The Afterwards Of The Neoliberal Development In Latin America., Wanda I. Ocasio- Rivera

Hispanic Studies Publications

Abstract

Blood, organs and other tissues for sale: Diamela Eltit's Impuesto a la carne and the afterwards of the neoliberal development in Latin America.

As Marx elaborated in Capital: Volume I at the moment human labour is sold, the subject participates in an ominous plot where she/he becomes a commodity. In a capitalist mode of production, the subject’s alienation from his/her humanity occurs because the individuals can only express labor through a privately-owned system of production in which he/she is an instrument, an object. This dehumanization process submits the subject under the exchange transactions of the market, where labor value …


2012-2 Specifying Nodes As Sets Of Actions, Peter A. Streufert Jan 2012

2012-2 Specifying Nodes As Sets Of Actions, Peter A. Streufert

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.


2012-1 Communication In Cournot Oligopoly, Maria Goltsman, Gregory Pavlov Jan 2012

2012-1 Communication In Cournot Oligopoly, Maria Goltsman, Gregory Pavlov

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.


2012-1 Credit Constraints In Education, Lance J. Lochner, Alexander Monge-Naranjo Jan 2012

2012-1 Credit Constraints In Education, Lance J. Lochner, Alexander Monge-Naranjo

Centre for Human Capital and Productivity. CHCP Working Papers

No abstract provided.


2012-2 The Contributions Of Search And Human Capital To Earnings Growth Over The Life Cycle, Audra J. Bowlus, Huju Liu Jan 2012

2012-2 The Contributions Of Search And Human Capital To Earnings Growth Over The Life Cycle, Audra J. Bowlus, Huju Liu

Centre for Human Capital and Productivity. CHCP Working Papers

No abstract provided.


2012-4 Heterogeneity And Long-Run Changes In U.S. Hours And The Labor Wedge, Simona E. Cociuba, Alexander Ueberfeldt Jan 2012

2012-4 Heterogeneity And Long-Run Changes In U.S. Hours And The Labor Wedge, Simona E. Cociuba, Alexander Ueberfeldt

Centre for Human Capital and Productivity. CHCP Working Papers

No abstract provided.


2012-3 Competition In Public School Districts: Charter School Entry, Student Sorting, And School Input Determination, Nirav Mehta Jan 2012

2012-3 Competition In Public School Districts: Charter School Entry, Student Sorting, And School Input Determination, Nirav Mehta

Centre for Human Capital and Productivity. CHCP Working Papers

No abstract provided.


2012-5 Early And Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, And The Family, Elizabeth M. Caucutt, Lance J. Lochner Jan 2012

2012-5 Early And Late Human Capital Investments, Borrowing Constraints, And The Family, Elizabeth M. Caucutt, Lance J. Lochner

Centre for Human Capital and Productivity. CHCP Working Papers

No abstract provided.


2012-1 Collateralized Borrowing And Risk Taking At Low Interest Rates, Simona E. Cociuba, Malik Shukayev, Alexander Ueberfeldt Jan 2012

2012-1 Collateralized Borrowing And Risk Taking At Low Interest Rates, Simona E. Cociuba, Malik Shukayev, Alexander Ueberfeldt

Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers

No abstract provided.


2012-2 Milton Friedman's Contributions To Macroeconomics And Their Influence, David Laidler Jan 2012

2012-2 Milton Friedman's Contributions To Macroeconomics And Their Influence, David Laidler

Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers

No abstract provided.


2012-3 The Role Of Production Sharing And Trade In The Transmission Of The Great Recession, Jacob Wibe Jan 2012

2012-3 The Role Of Production Sharing And Trade In The Transmission Of The Great Recession, Jacob Wibe

Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers

No abstract provided.


2012-6 Today's Standards And Yesterday's Economics - Two Short Occasional Essays: Eliminating History From Economic Thought And Mark Blaug On The Quantity Theory, David Laidler Jan 2012

2012-6 Today's Standards And Yesterday's Economics - Two Short Occasional Essays: Eliminating History From Economic Thought And Mark Blaug On The Quantity Theory, David Laidler

Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers

No abstract provided.


2012-4 Two Crises, Two Ideas And One Question, David Laidler Jan 2012

2012-4 Two Crises, Two Ideas And One Question, David Laidler

Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers

No abstract provided.


2012-7 The Possibilities For Global Inequality And Poverty Reduction Using Revenues From Global Carbon Pricing, James B. Davies, Xiaojun Shi, John Whalley Jan 2012

2012-7 The Possibilities For Global Inequality And Poverty Reduction Using Revenues From Global Carbon Pricing, James B. Davies, Xiaojun Shi, John Whalley

Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers

No abstract provided.


2012-5 Re-Examining The Role Of Sticky Wages In The U.S. Great Contraction: A Multi-Sector Approach, Pedro S. Amaral, James C. Macgee Jan 2012

2012-5 Re-Examining The Role Of Sticky Wages In The U.S. Great Contraction: A Multi-Sector Approach, Pedro S. Amaral, James C. Macgee

Economic Policy Research Institute. EPRI Working Papers

No abstract provided.


2012-3 Additive Plausibility Characterizes The Supports Of Consistent Assessments, Peter A. Streufert Jan 2012

2012-3 Additive Plausibility Characterizes The Supports Of Consistent Assessments, Peter A. Streufert

Department of Economics Research Reports

No abstract provided.


Open Textbooks And Provincial Government Policy: A Look At The Issues, Lisa Di Valentino Jan 2012

Open Textbooks And Provincial Government Policy: A Look At The Issues, Lisa Di Valentino

FIMS Publications

In 2012, the British Columbia government announced a plan to fund a program that will result in the creation of open access textbooks for 40 lower-year university courses — the first such program in any of the provinces. This paper will argue that Ontario should follow British Columbia’s lead and invest in the development of a project to create and promote the use of open textbooks. The introduction will discuss the concept of open textbooks and the various initiatives and legislation that have been introduced in the United States, and British Columbia’s plan will be described in more detail. The …