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I noted earlier that there were three components to the standard economic concept of services: services are instrumental means to an independently specified end; objects are mere vehicles for the services; and the end is well-being, typically conceived as preference satisfaction. The ways in which relations to particular persons, places and objects matter centrally to human well-being cannot be captured by this economic concept of services. __Relations to particulars are not simply the instrumental means to well-being specified independently of these relations. They are, rather, constitutive of well-being.__
Life Beyond Capital
John O'Neill
As diverse and geographically distant markets and cultures have become irreversibly interconnected through increasingly complex communication networks, all the nations in the world have come to share a common historical trajectory.
Education in a Time Between Worlds
Zachary Stein
The schema that Schmitt proposed to account for the concepts behind liberalism needs to be corrected. Between economics and ethics, there is a third, strategic focus, one which mediates between the other two. __Between the economic theory of the firm as nexus and the ethical theory of the firm as responsible partnership, there is a third term, the theory of the strategic management of stakeholders.__
The Ungovernable Society
Grégoire Chamayou
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