Copenhagen utilized value capture and land development strategies to fund its massive metro expansion entirely without public tax money. The video is an awesome dive into why
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GzamwVH3CXU
#urbanism #urbanplanning #Copenhagen #PublicTransit #ValueCapture

"#ValueCapture is the deviation between value realisation and production. Results show that China is the largest giver of value while the USA is the largest capturer of value in the world economy. Unproductive activities (real estate, finance, trade) and capital-intensive industries (manufacturing, mining, oil) are value capturers. Labour-intensive industries (health, education, construction, agriculture, services) transfer value away."
https://tomasrotta.com/2025/01/13/value-capture-and-value-production-in-the-world-economy-a-marxian-analysis-of-global-value-chains-2000-2014/
. The journal Environment and Planning A: Economy and Space has just published (open access) my most recent study on the production and capture of economic value on a global scale. The paper title …
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OnlineFirst - "Value capture and value production in the world economy: A Marxian analysis of global value chains, 2000–2014" by Tomás N. Rotta:
#worldeconomy #globalvaluechains #valuecapture #valuetransfer #unequalexchange
https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/full/10.1177/0308518X241299315
Every time I talk to a utilitarian I think about Thi Nguyen's "value capture". How is it that one simply decides that things which they had valued when they were younger don't have intrinsic value? I don't mean just logically, but existentially, how does one just decide to abandon a moral value they previously had and choose to bite many "bullets" which used to be repugnant to them?