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Had there been a computer in 1872... it would probably have predicted that there would be so many horse-drawn vehicles that it would be impossible to clear up all the manure.
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To ignore social costs because they require an evaluation by society... and to leave social losses out of account because they are 'external' and 'non-economic' in character, would be equivalent to attributing no or 'zero' value to all social damages which is no less arbitrary and subjective a judgement than any positive or negative evaluation of social costs.
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Capitalism must be regarded as an economy of unpaid costs, 'unpaid' in so far as a substantial portion of the actual costs of production remains unaccounted for in entrepreneurial outlays; instead they are shifted to, and ultimately borne by, third persons or by the community as a whole.
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Social costs... are all direct and indirect losses sustained by third persons or the general public as a result of unrestrained economic activities.
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Karl William Kapp
Born:
October 27, 1910
Died:
April 4, 1976
(aged 65)
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Karl William Kapp was a German-American economist and professor of economics at the University of the City of New York and later the University of Basel.
Known for:
The Social Costs of Business Enterprise (1963)
Toward a science of man in society (1961)
Social costs of private enterprise (1950)
The humanization of the social sciences
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