Growth of capitalism: how does innovation reinforce capitalism in the progress of its authority?

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Kahraman, Ömer Ersin

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The main aim of this thesis is to discuss the role of innovation in the capitalist mode of production so as to achieve the domination of capitalism in the human world by capitalizing it. The idea of freedom is handled as a reason for politics when one confronts another in this quest. Process innovations are accepted as methods of improving the profitability of production which deprives dispossessed masses from their productive power outside the workplace while product innovation is claimed to be the process of improving profitability of consumption which results in increased intervention of capitalism in the relation between the human being and his wants through pacification. Thus, as capitalism continues growing, it becomes more a mediator between the human being and materials, which gives it more authority in society.

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Capital., Capitalism.

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https://hdl.handle.net/11511/19828

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Ö. E. Kahraman, “Growth of capitalism: how does innovation reinforce capitalism in the progress of its authority?,” M.S. - Master of Science, Middle East Technical University, 2010.