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Labour Market (skills) Implications of a Shift Towards High Value Markets

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Labour Market (skills) Implications of a Shift Towards High Value Markets at Coventry University

Language: English Studies in English
University website: www.coventry.ac.uk

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Market (economics)
Market
If the individual were no longer compelled to prove himself on the market, as a free economic subject, the disappearance of this kind of freedom would be one of the greatest achievements of civilization. The technological processes of mechanization and standardization might release individual energy into a yet uncharted realm of freedom beyond necessity. The very structure of human existence would be altered; the individual would be liberated from the work world's imposing upon him alien needs and alien possibilities. The individual would be free to exert autonomy over a life that would be his own.
Herbert Marcuse, One Dimensional Man (1964), p. 2
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I believe that one ought to have only as much market efficiency as one needs, because everything that we value in human life is within the realm of inefficiency — love, family, attachment, community, culture, old habits, comfortable old shoes.
Edward Luttwak, cited in Corey Robin, "The Ex-Cons: Right-Wing Thinkers Go Left!", Lingua Franca 11,1 (Feb. 2001), pp.24-33,32.
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Underlying most arguments against the free market is a lack of belief in freedom itself.
Milton Friedman, Capitalism & Freedom (1962)
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