While Gassendi is perhaps best known in history of philosophy for his disputes with Descartes, his relations with other major figures, including Kepler, Galileo, Mersenne, Beeckman, and Hobbes, represented even more important transactions of ideas.
In today's business world there is a heavy reliance on written documents for sharing information, conducting and recording transactions, exchanging ideas, and maintaining a harmonious interpersonal relationship within a company and with external business contacts (Poe 2006; Xu 2012).
As with iZettle's existing business strategy — taking a 2.75% flat cut on all transactions; offering a payment service that complies with local regulations and links up with a merchants' smartphone or tablet to the complete the transaction — the idea would be for Banco Santander to offer the reader as a service for small businesses who are not already accepting card-based payments.
And the sweetness of this transaction gave Randel ideas.
Southampton was created to profit from one part of the Raptor transaction, with the idea apparently coming from Mr. Fastow and Mr. Kopper, according to the committee report.
Subsidies aside, the report acknowledges the pressures of the global financial crisis, but points to "innovative" sources of financing such as a currency transaction tax – an idea it first mooted in 1994, which is gaining traction.
That's part of it, I'm not going to deny that, but it's also a cultural transaction, a transaction of ideas and participation, and gathering people together.
The scale of the Bazaar's success will be reflected at the Festival, and will hopefully be just the start of a salubrious creative exchange, as both a transaction and celebration of ideas for our mutual benefit.
WHEN the nature of the firm was decoded by Ronald Coase in 1937, he identified the idea of "transaction costs"—for which earned a Nobel Prize in Economics in 1991.
As with sex, perhaps, we are, in certain ways, reluctant to talk about the machinations of finance, for fear of dispelling some mystery — believing that mystery is actually part of the transaction, much like the idea of how we want capitalism on the way up, and socialism on the way down.
Since the creative class deals largely with images, ideas and transactions, it's not likely to focus much on reviving the tangible parts of the economy: manufacturing, logistics, traditional energy and agribusiness.
