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Excerpt from "The Mismeasure of Wealth", 2016

How is the Term ‘Value’ Used in Ordinary Language?

Let us do some analysis of ordinary language and try to spell out the grammar of the word ‘value’ as used in everyday talk about the kind of value that money measures. I will interpolate comments regarding Bailey’s views – which largely oppose ordinary language – as we go. In common usage we employ the word ‘value’ in phrases such as ‘the value of commodity a’ or in questions such as ‘has the value of commodity a gone up or down?’ or ‘Do commodities a and b have the same value?’ The ordinary usages of the term ‘value’ include the following features:

1. Value is public [Footnote: Prices, the necessary form of expression of value according to Marx, are public]. To talk about ‘value for me’ disregards the grammar of ‘value’ just as talk about ‘truth for me’ violates the ordinary grammar of ‘truth’. My allergy to dairy products does not mean cheese has no val

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import { find, propEq, memoize, pipe, filter, toPairs, contains, map, fromPairs, concat } from 'ramda'
import { all, resolve } from 'bluebird'

const authHeader = memoize((token) => ({ Authorization: `Bearer ${token}` }))
const $http = require('http-as-promised').defaults({ resolve: 'body', json: true })
const lx = {
  gateway: 'https://lanetix-gateway.herokuapp.com',
  records: 'https://lanetix-records.herokuapp.com'
}

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"use strict";

// http://stackoverflow.com/questions/23260390/node-js-tail-call-optimization-possible-or-not
// Tested and working with node v7.2.0. Both of the following work:
// node --harmony_tailcalls tco.js
// node --harmony tco.js

const natsFrom = (n) => [n, () => natsFrom(n+1)]
const kth = ([hd, tl], k) => k === 0 ? hd : kth(tl(), k - 1)

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udpPort.send({
  address: '/s_new',
  args: ['ping', 400]
}, '127.0.0.1', 57110)

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Autor - How Technology Wrecks the Middle Class

Autor - The Growth of Low-Skill Service Jobs and the Polarization of the US Labor Market (datasets)

Autor - Polanyi’s Paradox and the Shape of Employment Growth

Does Polanyi’s Tacit Knowledge Dimension Exist? fairly extensive citations in the management literature

The Trend is the Cycle: Job Polarization and Jobless Recoveries

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lanetix=# \d foo
           Table "scripting.foo"
 Column |         Type          | Modifiers 
--------+-----------------------+-----------
 id     | integer               | not null
 a      | character varying(40) | not null
 b      | character varying(40) | not null
 c      | character varying(40) | not null

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News

• Bruenig Blog Post on Finnish Hype

Advocacy

• Basic Income Earth Network
• Vivant (Belgian Political Party)
• Van Parijs - A Capitalist Road to Communism
• Van Parijs - Basic Income in a Globalized Economy

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Surplus Population Notes

Prime Age OECD LFPR 1960-2014

Tonic for LFPR/EPR visualization

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// Ramda provides one, but just for verbosity
var add = function (x,y) { return x + y; };
var square = function (x) { return x * x; };

// Redundant looping
var sumSquares = R.pipe(
  R.map(square),
  R.reduce(add, 0)
);

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  {
    "id": 0,
    "description": "Science In Action",
    "tags": "read philosophy",
    "dependencies": [6]
  },
  {
    "id": 1,
    "description": "Conscience of the Revolution",