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Unflat Ontology: Essay on the Poverty of Democratic Materialism

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The paper is dedicated to the problem of flat ontology in philosophy and its relation to the practice in economy. The author argues that flat economy is based on a marginal utility theory of value and presents hierarchical value chains with concentration of power-capital as if they were flat and all the actors involved were equal. This is the work of democratic materialism, with its idea of radical equality of human and non-human interactions. This perspective, according to the author, should be opposed by the reconstruction of power-capital relations in unflat ontologies of the value-creation process.

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  • Kvachev, Vadim, 2020. "Unflat Ontology: Essay on the Poverty of Democratic Materialism," EconStor Open Access Articles and Book Chapters, ZBW - Leibniz Information Centre for Economics, vol. 9(1, July), pages 13-34.
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    Keywords

    flat ontology; materialism; theory of value; value chain;
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    JEL classification:

    • P16 - Political Economy and Comparative Economic Systems - - Capitalist Economies - - - Capitalist Institutions; Welfare State
    • D46 - Microeconomics - - Market Structure, Pricing, and Design - - - Value Theory
    • E13 - Macroeconomics and Monetary Economics - - General Aggregative Models - - - Neoclassical

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