Let Me Get This Straight! My Sociological Understanding of the Socio-Economic Crisis of September-October 2008.
Sunday, October 5th, 2008 Posted in Cadre, Money, Sub-Prime Crisis | No Comments »The concrete event is the on-going now. It is opposed to the model which is abstracted from it. We have the thing itself against our conception of it. When I try to grasp this economic crisis we are in I ...
The Top Dollar Chief Executive Officer (CEO)
Thursday, September 25th, 2008 Posted in Cadre, Cadre Functions, Money | No Comments »CEO is after all just another job. "And what do you do, Chum?" "I'm a CEO, Buster. Is that a problem for you?" "Absolutely not. It takes all kinds. Doesn't it?" A person doing a job of work and critics worry that his wages, ...
The Socio-Economic Surplus. Calling Attention to the Shaggy Elephant
Saturday, September 13th, 2008 Posted in Asymmetrical Relationship, Money, Surplus Value | No Comments »The socio-economic surplus is all the goods and services we produce over our basic needs. It has a hefty feel, a weight like the large bull elephant everyone ignores at a garden party. A huge animal hidden in ...
The Money Game
Tuesday, September 9th, 2008 Posted in Asymmetrical Relationship, Culture, Money, Surplus Value | No Comments »Money exchanges have the same socio-cultural shell as any other game. Rules govern the action. When we find a certain result like the accumulation of a surplus, we track back to the covering frame of law, consensus, and agency. And ...
A Glance into the Mysterious Surplus.
Wednesday, September 3rd, 2008 Posted in Money, Surplus Value | No Comments »It is possible to starve to death. There is a certain level of goods and services we need to continue, that we need to avoid this dire threat. Anything below this line is necessity, anything above is ...
Surplus Money. A Note
Thursday, August 28th, 2008 Posted in Money, Surplus Value | No Comments »We all encounter money directly. It takes the form of a flow away from us and towards us. We buy what we need and what gives us pleasure and we sell our skill and energy as workers (our services) and ...
Money Notes. Toward a Sociology of Money
Thursday, August 21st, 2008 Posted in Money | No Comments »Money is an old human discovery continually revised. It has changed according to era and ideology. In our time it has been stripped of intrinsic value. It is no longer a commodity as well as a universal numerical sign. ...
Beyond the Money Motive
Saturday, August 16th, 2008 Posted in Money | No Comments »This for that. An exchange using the universal sign for desire as this. Money given and either a material thing (product) or service received. Theoretically any project can be pushed, the necessary workers and resources mobilized, by the tendering of ...
Money and the Non-Equivalence of Projects
Monday, August 11th, 2008 Posted in Money | No Comments »Some people can not chew gum and walk at the same time, but social groups and societies can though they might not. We are plural, there are several of us, and we have the division of labor option. ...
Musing on the Hedge
Friday, April 4th, 2008 Posted in Anti-Experiment, Gambling, Money | No Comments »In the 1930s Philadelphia an informal gambling market developed at professional baseball games. Around 400 mature men would gather in the left field bleachers of the old Shibe Park and bet with each other over the outcome of the ...