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Beyond Capitalism To Post-capitalsim: Conceiving A Better Model Of Wealth Acquisition To Supersede Capitalism.


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2005-046415

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Beyond capitalism to post-capitalism; conceiving a better model of wealth acquisition to supersede To obliterate, replace, make void, or useless.

Supersede means to take the place of, as by reason of superior worth or right. A recently enacted statute that repeals an older law is said to supersede the prior legislation.
 capitalism.

Baofu, Peter. (Mellen studies in economics; v.26)

Edwin Mellen Pr., [c]2005

371 p.

$119.95

Building on (and continually referring readers back to) earlier works of his including The Future of Capitalism and Democracy, The Future of Post-Human Consciousness, and Beyond Democracy to Post-Democracy, Baofu (PhD, political science, Massachusetts Institute of Technology Massachusetts Institute of Technology, at Cambridge; coeducational; chartered 1861, opened 1865 in Boston, moved 1916. It has long been recognized as an outstanding technological institute and its Sloan School of Management has notable programs in business, ) analyzes capitalist models of wealth through the lenses of the methodological, the conceptual, the theoretical, praxis prax·is  
n. pl. prax·es
1. Practical application or exercise of a branch of learning.

2. Habitual or established practice; custom.
, and the ontological on·to·log·i·cal  
adj.
1. Of or relating to ontology.

2. Of or relating to essence or the nature of being.

3.
. He proposes that the capitalist model of wealth will inevitably give way to post-capitalist models of wealth with concomitantly con·com·i·tant  
adj.
Occurring or existing concurrently; attendant. See Synonyms at contemporary.

n.
One that occurs or exists concurrently with another.
 different values. These post-capitalist models--trans-sinitic, trans-feminine, trans-islamic, and trans-outer-space--will inspire for a higher spiritual culture, will allow for a more active (communal) role for government, and will favor the fulfillment of basic needs rather than artificial ones.
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