The global vision of the usefulness

Abstract

This document is an approached concept about theories of the usefulness, in it, the developments that have had across the history are considered, in line with the different visions on disciplines and knowledge; but special importance re-dresses the contributions done by the philosophy, the economy and the mathematics. In this analysis constitutes a vital importance the review of some theories as the one of the utilitarianism, the theory of value/work, the theory of the expected usefulness, the theory of the marginal usefulness, the theory of the value/ risk, the theory of the global vision of the usefulness, between others, which turn out to be fundamental in the process construction or diffusion of a useful knowledge in the managing of the companies, of the economy and of the company in general. According to the author’s concept, usefulness is strictly a concept of “usability” on which a cause/effect resources are taken into account from the utilitarian point of view. These specifications come through and are based on a community benefit as a sum of personal pleasure and also as part of the economic and social vision of the concept (usefulness) expressed in the capacity each service has to satisfy a human necessity on which the basis of the economical analysis are concentrated. Now, the concept of usefulness is approached, taking into account the neoclassicists or segregated school, and economists of the 20th century, to whom the notion of usefulness links itself principally to the theory of the decision, in which the fundamental thing is not the discussion on if a function of the usefulness exists, but of how it comes near to the usefulness depending on a few aims and a global changeable environment that supposes a level of risk that must be considered for persons, companies and economies in develop of the different activities, that they should measure in terms of results though many of them express to themselves qualitatively (subjectivity), but first of all, they express the degree of usefulness reached at the end of a few social processes of production in which the individual is favoured though to guarantee his safety it associates to a company or in an industry that demands from him productivity and competitiveness, supported on the exploitation, the inequity and own practices of the original accumulation of the capital that have led to conditions of poverty to most of the population.