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Productive Habitats: Shaping Urban Environments Through Capital and Industry

2024

Abstract

The Productive Habitats Open Field Lunch 2024 invites EPFL scholars to critically examine the profound influence of companies in shaping urban environments over the last three centuries. Through their extractive activities and industrial dominance, corporations have not only molded cities, towns, and entire regions, but have also left an indelible mark on the spatial, environmental, and socio-political landscapes. This interdisciplinary dialogue, hosted by the Habitat Research Center, will explore both the decline and potential resurgence of these corporate-driven settlements. By investigating the relationships between market forces, corporate governance, and societal well-being, this event aims to offer fresh perspectives on the intersection of capitalism and the built environment.

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2024

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https://infoscience.epfl.ch/entities/publication/ccdec728-2b2b-40da-992d-71c4b6e00632

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Capitalism is an economic system based on the private ownership of the means of production and their operation for profit. Central characteristics of capitalism include capital accumulation, competitive markets, price systems, private property, property rights recognition, voluntary exchange, and wage labor. In a market economy, decision-making and investments are determined by owners of wealth, property, or ability to maneuver capital or production ability in capital and financial markets—whereas prices and the distribution of goods and services are mainly determined by competition in goods and services markets.

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State capitalism is an economic system in which the state undertakes business and commercial (i.e. for-profit) economic activity and where the means of production are nationalized as state-owned enterprises (including the processes of capital accumulation, centralized management and wage labor). The definition can also include the state dominance of corporatized government agencies (agencies organized along business-management practices) or of public companies such as publicly listed corporations in which the state has controlling shares.

Market economy

A market economy is an economic system in which the decisions regarding investment, production and distribution to the consumers are guided by the price signals created by the forces of supply and demand. The major characteristic of a market economy is the existence of factor markets that play a dominant role in the allocation of capital and the factors of production.

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