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Non-fungible Tokens (NFTs) & Future Value Exchanges – EVONOMICS = Evolution + Economics
EVONOMICS Fungibility implies equal value between the asset. Fungibility is the ability of a good or asset to be readily interchanged for another of like kind. Non-fungible (NFTs) can be traded and exchanged for money, cryptocurrencies, or other NFTs—it all depends on the value the market and owners have placed on them. NFTs can represent […]
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POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH: Why do inequality and deprivation produce high crime and low trust?
POLITICAL SCIENCE RESEARCH (2021)politics + money = BOGUS “Humans sometimes cooperate to mutual advantage, and sometimes exploit one another. In industrialised societies, the prevalence of exploitation, in the form of crime, is related to the distribution of economic resources: more unequal societies tend to have higher crime, as well as lower social trust. We created a […]
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Socio-Economics: Voluntary Slavery and the Limits of the Market
Voluntary Slavery and the Limits of the Market-by Daniel Satz (2009) – article #5 in ‘Law & Ethics of Human Rights‘, vol. 3, issue 1 “Most anyone ought to know that a man is better off free than as a slave, even if he did not have anything. I would rather be free and have […]
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Wealth and Poverty: On the Social Creation of Scarcity
Economics has often been called the science of wealth, with the alleviation of poverty as one of the justifications for both the pursuit of wealth and the study of that pursuit (economic theory). In the language of politicians, if we want to feed more people we need to make the economic pie bigger. This process of making the economic pie bigger […]
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Illusioned and Alienated: Can Gig Workers Organise Collectively?
Illusioned and Alienated: Can Gig Workers OrganiseCollectively?Dragana Mrvos (2021)University of South Florida, Saint Petersburg, USA, dmrvos@usf.edu,https://www.usf.edu/arts-sciences/departments/school-of-interdisciplinaryglobal-studies/people/dmrvos.aspx Abstract: By studying the fraudulent benefits of flexibility in the ride-hailing gig economy, this article explains alienation as a condition in which workers are excluded from the product, estranged, and disadvantaged. Material estrangement, an objective aspect of alienation exemplified […]
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The Egalitarian Dimension of Human Rights – Equality
‘A remarkable feature of the robust and nuanced contemporary philosophical literature on egalitarianism is its lack of engagement with the theory and practice of human rights. This disconnect is puzzling because the modern human rights movement is arguably the most salient and powerful manifestation of a commitment to equality in our time. Perhaps philosophers writing […]