Towards Community Valuation

Gerardo Rivera Ungson and Sixto K. Roxas

Chapter 11 in From Alleviation to Empowerment:Ruminations on Poverty, Capitalism, and Communities, 2026, pp 253-278 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: Prices and costs are ubiquitous in our modern economic society. There is hardly a transaction that does not involve prices and some consideration of costs. Indeed, prices are so deeply etched in our lexicon about accounting, exchange, and the financial environment that it is almost unimaginable to conceive of an economy without them. Operating much like the tapestry of language, prices predefine anticipated transactions, create nominal categories for classification and prioritization, and legitimize transactions as appropriate representations of “real-world” economic events…

Keywords: Poverty; Poverty Alleviation; Poverty Eradication; Inter-generational Poverty; Environmental Degradation; Sustainable Development; Community Empowerment; Social Accounting; Human Settlements; Development Economics; Unsustainable Development; Ecological Sustainability; Capitalism; Free Market; Economic Orthodoxy; Classical Economics: Marx; Radical Economics; Bretton Woods; Sectoral Development; Sectoral Specializations; Neo-liberalism; Enterprise Management; Modern Corporation; Modern Enterprises; Microfinance; Entrepreneurship; Social Enterprises; Capacity Building; Conditional Cash Transfer; Mainstream Growth Theory; Biogenesis; Mechanistic Worldview; Jurgen Habermas; Spectrum of Consciousness; Communitarian Movement; Moral Capitalism; Humane Economy; Enterprise Logic; Communitarian Logic; Ekistics; Enterprise Accounting; Community-based Accounting System; Social Accounting; Valuation (search for similar items in EconPapers)
JEL-codes: I32 O15 O18 Q01 (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
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