libidinal economy

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libidinal economy: A reading of social life in which desire is treated as a scarce, investable force, circulated, hoarded, and spent the way capital is.

See also

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• Jean-François LyotardFrench philosopher (1924-1998) who treated desire as an economy and later named the postmodern as incredulity toward grand narratives.
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• ceteris paribusLatin for "all other things being equal"; used in economics to isolate the effect of a single variable by holding all other factors constant.
• ceteris paribusLatin for "all other things being equal"; used in economics to isolate the effect of a single variable by holding all other factors constant.
• Mackinder's Heartland theoryA geopolitical concept proposing that control over Central Asia (the 'Heartland') allows for dominance over the 'World Island' (Eurasia and Africa), and thus the entire world.
• Nicholas Spykman's Rimland theoryA geopolitical theory stating that control over the coastal fringes of Eurasia (the Rimland) is the key to global power, as it contains the majority of the world's population and resources.
• SVAR (Structural Vector Autoregression)SVAR (Structural Vector Autoregression): SVAR is an econometric tool that separates tangled economic data into the underlying independent surprises, or shocks, that drove it, so you can simulate what happens if one of those shocks hits again.