Sentences with phrase «basic economic ideas»
The EconoMe lesson plans explore basic economic ideas such as interest rates on borrowing and saving.
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To meet this political and economic meta - challenge, the hot new idea is the universal basic income — using some of the wealth generated by all this new technology to guarantee everyone a baseline income, whether they are working or not.
The program is the idea of the city's 27 - year - old mayor and will be primarily funded by the basic income advocacy group Economic Security Project...
Premised on the idea that the basic activity of life is the inescapable pursuit of what Hobbes called the «power after power that ceaseth only in death» — Alexis de Tocqueville would later describe it as «inquietude» or «restlessness» — the endless quest for fewer obstacles to self - fulfillment and greater power to actuate the ceaseless cravings of the human soul requires ever - accelerating forms of economic growth and pervasive consumption.
There are marked tensions between the basic ideas of this traditional thought and those that control modern economic thinking.
Below is a breakdown of the lesson objectives: * All students will know the main measures of an economy * Most students will have an idea of what the UK economy is currently like * Some students will know how different factors can effect the UK economy The lesson looks at the basics of the following macroeconomic concepts with definition, examples and valid video links: * Inflation * Unemployment * Economic growth * Gross domestic product (GDP) * Balance of payments * Exchange rates The lesson concludes with a nice multiple choice quiz to test students on the lessons theory.
In my thirty years of working on Maine economic issues, no idea has had as much potential for leapfrogging the other states and putting Maine in a position of national leadership as this one — giving our students portable, Internet - ready computers as a basic tool for learning.»
The most basic idea is economic necessity.
«In a world that is now more than ever searching for new solutions for basic social and economic problems, a sense of new ways forward might be found in the ideas of societal rebirth that arise from the Stag Monuments.»
This is the innovation pipeline — from blue - sky research to entrepreneurial development to market — that transforms basic ideas into new economic building blocks (microchips, lasers, the Internet, the mapped genome and more).