"Addiction to a strict and unremitting valuation of all things in terms of price and profit" leaves executives "unfit to appreciate those technological facts that can be formulated only in terms of tangible mechanical performance," Thorstein Veblen wrote in 1921 in "The Engineers and the Price System".
The latter involve the valuation of persons, things, or actions in terms of their social status or esteem, their price (economic value), or their desert (as in punishment and reward)—all of which are inexact, comparative, and subject to alteration or adjustment (i.e., moral imposition is an ongoing process).
And perhaps it is impossible for two gods to exhibit different expressions of this in the same possible world: In any possible world, w, two omniscient beings would know the same things; being supremely good their appreciations and valuations of the things in w would presumably be identical; and each would be the creative ground of everything else that exists in w.
"After a number of years where fintech has been a little bit ahead of itself in terms of valuations, things have come back to earth".
In the past few days financial markets have paused for thought about the valuation of the increasingly ephemeral things in which they deal.
DealBook » Did Morgan Stanley Get a Better Deal? | The Wall Street Journal's Heard on the Street column looks at the valuation of Morgan Stanley Smith Barney, writing, "All things considered, Morgan looks to have gotten a pretty good deal".
Like much of the market, Tesla's pie-in-the-sky valuation is based on all sorts of things that not only haven't happened yet, but aren't even in progress yet.
The linear mixed model with utility value as the dependent variable showed that caregiver age and valuation of the ability to do things for fun were significant predictors of the patient-by-proxy EQ-5D utility scores (Table 3).
The linear mixed model with utility value as the dependent variable showed that caregiver age and valuation of the ability to do things for fun were significant predictors of the patient-by-proxy EQ-5D utility values.
Valuation is concerned with the 'value' or significance of things.
