...Melissa W. Wright Duke University Press 2006 Melissa W. Wright Public Women, Profit, and Femicide in Northern Mexico Since 2002, a social justice movement called Ni Una Mas has brought international attention...

...Walter J. Matherly Copyright © 1935 by Duke University Press 1935 PUBLIC BENEFITS OF PRIVATE PROFITS WALTER J. MATHERLY THE SYSTEM of private profits in America as well as elsewhere faces an uncertain future. The philosophy of economic self-interest originally stated by Adam Smith and so ably...

...Howard Douglas Dozier Copyright © 1944 by Duke University Press 1944 PRIVATE COLLEGES IN A PROFITS WORLD HOWARD DOUGLAS DOZIER AFTER THIS paper was begun, but before it was finished, a jL small private college in my state was advertised for sale at public auction to satisfy a debt. It had had...

... Barzón. The first part of the article clarifies an important distinction between “profit debt” and “use-value debt.” These two kinds of debt do not dichotomously divide class societies. For example, both capitalists and proletarians incur both “profit debt” and “use-value debt.” The categorically mixed...

... and its militarization. On this count, I modify Timothy Mitchell's thesis in Carbon Democracy that the militarization of the Middle East was a largely American solution to lost profits following the nationalization of oil by producing countries (insofar as lost oil profits were recuperated through weapons...

... exchanges even while Dickens contemplated the very profitable consequences of mass proliferation. In order to contextualize Dickens's entrenchment, this essay explores the means by which he fostered an aesthetic of domestic reception. Here the hearth is seen in lights both familiar and unfamiliar, as source...

... labor of plantation and maquiladora, which are seen as unrelated to the centers of profit. More is involved in this turn than the reappearance of what was once sardonically called “critical criticism.” There are fully economic reasons as well. To what degree, for example, is contemporary theory a labor...

...-American leaders have been expected to rise transcendentally above yellow, black, brown, and red leaders. In an attempt to gain rights to traffick as much opium as they wanted in the late eighteenth century, white Englishmen profiting from dealing drugs to the Chinese successfully lobbied the British Crown...

...Duncan K. Foley While the depression of the 1890s and the stagflation of the 1970s appear to be manifestations of Karl Marx's contention that the rate of profit tends to fall over time, the Great Depression of the 1930s and the Great Recession of the 2000s appear to be rooted in rising rates...

...Priyamvada Gopal In June 2011, A. C. Grayling, a professor of philosophy at Birkbeck College London and a familiar figure in British left-liberal circles, unleashed a firestorm of controversy when he announced the formation of Britain's first fully private and for-profit liberal arts institution...

...Alys Eve Weinbaum This article builds on the premise that there are two periods in the history of racial capitalism during which women’s reproductive labor power has been engineered for profit: the four hundred years of chattel slavery in the Americas, and our biocapitalist present. Black feminist...

... the privatization of the management of water and other local services of general interest. Ninety-five percent of those voting voted against allowing a profit to be made from managing a commons. This vote was against privatization but also against the old public model, which has at this time been completely...

... in subsidiary corporations. Such entities have proved so profitable to the investor class that a new brand of PAs has been created for the sole purpose of issuing “phantom bonds,” money that never reaches the public but is instead siphoned off by investors and bond insurers. The transformation of PAs from...

...Manuela Bojadžijev This article takes as a starting point a tenants’ initiative pursued predominantly by migrants in inner-city Berlin, the capital of a country considered to have profited from Europe’s debt and financial crisis of 2007–8. The two-year-long protest can be read within the framework...

... lated to attract men with the gamester s instinct, willing to chance everything on the throw of the dice. The risk was great, but so also was the reward. The profits far exceeded those of the most rapacious sugar merchant or government contractor 4 Official Records of the War of the Rebellion; series I...

... with similar movements in a dozen European countries. In England, the birthplace of the principles of co-operation, the success of consumers co-operatives has been effective in checking the excesses of the profit motive in its social applications, and has thus helped to implement the principle of democracy...

... value-theory has been obscured by his own emphasis on the subjec­ tive factor, on human labor-power as the key factor in profit. Used without this subjective emphasis, however, Marx s value-theory becomes a theory of time and speed, in which time is, quite literally, compressed in favor of distance...

... or on contributions from rival leaders on the other side. Except in times of stress, without these extra sums pub­ lishers of news would not have made a profit from the enter­ prise. Fault was found with Sir Robert Walpole for giving allowances from the Treasury to found and keep afloat the first organ any British...

.... This is especially true in the case of special war profits. If, instead of taking this income by taxation, the government promises to pay it back with interest, the sacrifice is insignificant. It is now clear in what sense the burden of a war financed at home can be put upon posterity. If a father sustains great...

..., that it becomes true leadership. IV What of profit a prime factor in outmoded Americanism? Is profit an essentially selfish and antisocial motive? Does devotion to the common good mean the entire renunciation of profit of any and every sort? Yes; if profit is individualized. No; if profit is socialized...