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... economic system - even though in the long run succeeding generations would find these putative gains offset by the cost of reparations , repairs , and replacements , to say nothing of human wretchedness . Though the moral onus for ...
... economic system - even though in the long run succeeding generations would find these putative gains offset by the cost of reparations , repairs , and replacements , to say nothing of human wretchedness . Though the moral onus for ...
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Lewis Mumford. Marx , Karl . Capital : A Critique of Political Economy . Translated from the fourth German edition by Eden and Cedar Paul . London : 1929 . Though Marx's abstract economic reasoning is obsolete , and his historic ...
Lewis Mumford. Marx , Karl . Capital : A Critique of Political Economy . Translated from the fourth German edition by Eden and Cedar Paul . London : 1929 . Though Marx's abstract economic reasoning is obsolete , and his historic ...
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... Economic depression , 326 Economic gains , just distribution of , 324 Economic organizations , corporate , 278 Economic prison , new , 327 Economic waste , 328 Economy , automated , 184 ; democratiza- tion of , 324 Economy of abundance ...
... Economic depression , 326 Economic gains , just distribution of , 324 Economic organizations , corporate , 278 Economic prison , new , 327 Economic waste , 328 Economy , automated , 184 ; democratiza- tion of , 324 Economy of abundance ...
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NEW EXPLORATIONS NEW WORLDS | 3 |
RETURN OF THE SUN GOD | 28 |
THE MECHANIZED WORLD PICTURE | 51 |
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