Quirkiest: Shop Class As Soulcraft: An Inquiry Into the Value Of Work by Matthew Crawford, discussed here.
The discussion was whether it was appropriate to quantify (and therefore, tax) the value of work brought into a home.
If the value of work in progress (or stocks, components) has risen strongly then the first story is more likely to be true.
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Joey Hudy has entrepreneurial-minded parents that understand the value of work and how earning something gives the earner a deep sense of accomplishment and achievement.
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Filer (1984) comes to an identical conclusion: the DDS reallocates property rights: thus, the value of a work of art without full property rights is less than the value with full rights.
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The few minutes the Queen spent in the Centre, meeting representatives of all the charities, will have been a welcome endorsement of the value of the work they do.
Now, computers, networks and analytics are making the value of manufacturing work low value.
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Ideally, the money and the future value of the work are unimportant.
Americans are learning hard lessons about the value of their work in a race-to-the-bottom global economy.
Understanding the value of hard work, the importance of friendships and following your dreams clearly worked for Zuckerberg.
All the art world comes here -- it completely changes the value of your work and how you're perceived.
Roscoe was a square-shouldered six-footer who taught his boys the value of hard work and the skills for doing it well.
"It was a fundamental part of her image - emphasising the value of hard work, her background as a grocer's daughter, " says Prof Toye.
After spending 30 years in the private sector, I felt increasingly unsettled that the value of my work was best defined by an EBIDTA calculation.
And while there's certainly plenty of employers out there who recognize the value of good work-life policies, many people in this country just aren't as fortunate to work with those employers.
To deny the validity of the droit de suite is not to be a philistine: arguably, it is more philistine to equate the value of a work of art with its price.
If these donors wish to help their children, they should begin by teaching them the value of hard work and merit, not how to buy one's way out of an underachieving high-school career.
For professionals (like me) who deal in reputation preservation and enhancement, the challenge is to reaffirm the critical value of that work even as the intensity of public reactions subsides during a period of scandal-exhaustion.
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Her company recently teamed up with the Great Place to Work Institute to ask senior executives from top-ranked companies about the value of a positive work environment.
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See if you can identify and articulate the real meaning and value of the work that you do.
Most archaeologists would insist the true value of their work lies away from the glamour of kings and nobles and with the lives of the ordinary people of the past.
One can no more assess the work of scientists without examining the incentives and value systems under which they operate than one can assess the work of mortgage bankers without looking at the incentives and value systems that led them to drive the economy into a ditch.
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The US Army Corps of Engineers said one contract would cover fields in the north of Iraq, and the other the south, with the exact final value dependent on the amount of work necessary.
The drumbeat has begun regarding the future of Michael Vick and his mushrooming market value despite the limited sample of work.
Later on, Jeffrey Rayport and John Sviokla applied the idea to the virtual world, the world of information, arguing that managers must pay attention to the way in which value chains work in both the tangible world of the marketplace and the virtual world of the market space.
Medical and law schools teach the value of pro bono work, business schools rarely do.
My parents taught me the value of a strong work ethic because that was how you got ahead in life.
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If the value of stocks or work in progress has fallen (obviously, both need to be measured as a portion of sales, not just as simple levels) then the second answer becomes more likely.
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What happens to private equity may be a leading indicator of how the crisis in the financial system will affect the rest of the business world, both because private-equity deals are so dependent on large amounts of debt, and because many of the shrewdest judges of corporate value work for private-equity funds.
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