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superstructure
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superstructure

That portion of a building or other structure that is aboveground.



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To a large extent, the approach identifies the infrastructural elements as causes of structural and superstructural phenomena.
00 Hardcover HC110 Amavilah (economics, Glendale College) builds an economic model based on the assumption that embedded economies (small parts of one economy that differ from but are integrated with the whole) differ from their hosts "because, although infrastructural aspects are similar, the corresponding superstructural elements are dissimilar, making for observed differences in performance.
Among defenders of liberty, no dispute--say, over the freedom of expression or religion--is comparable to the conflict over the idea of property between the two liberal groups whom de Jasay (2002) defines: one group believes secure property (and consequently, trade) is infrastructural, endogenous, as ancient as humanity itself and prior to politics and the state; the other believes property is superstructural, dependent on a guarantee mechanism that society demands and the state operates.
 
 
 
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