There is nothing of value in the closet, if you reckon value in material terms.
But we also have no good means for reckoning the value of different actions interpersonally.
** In Eberstadt's reckoning, Gypsy values amount to a disabling intensification of "family values": a good wife, in her obligatory ankle-length black skirt, can't leave the house without a husband's permission, and men would rather laze around "at home, tranquille" than work.
In Eberstadt's reckoning, Gypsy values amount to a disabling intensification of "family values": a good wife, in her obligatory ankle-length black skirt, can't leave the house without a husband's permission, and men would rather laze around "at home, tranquille" than work.
Entrepreneur Robert Tchenguiz reckons shareholder value is still the best measure of a company's performance.
Jin Zhengzhong, the general manager, explains that this is based on traditional rural reckoning which values a woman's labour at half that of a man's.
Even so, it too reckons the value of business and home desktop PC sales will be no higher in 2003 than it is today.The PC market has seen boom and bust before.
That land is far more valuable now than it was then: Jeroen Aerts and Wouter Botzen of the Netherlands' VU University reckon the value of structures threatened by storms and floods has increased four- to sevenfold in the past century.
Within ten months of Mr Ahmadinejad's election, he reckons, the value of civil contracts awarded to the Guards, many of them without going to competitive tender, had trebled from $4 billion to $12 billion.
Mr Krishnamurthy and Ms Vissing-Jorgensen reckon the value that investors place on the safety and liquidity of Treasuries averaged a hefty 73 basis points in forgone yields over the period they studied.Lower borrowing costs on government debt are a boon for the taxpayer but not necessarily helpful to other debt issuers.
