Sentences with phrase «economic elites in»

Repentance was far from the minds of U.S. military planners and economic elites in the post-Vietnam period.

Where economic elites in previous centuries may have used social Darwinism and even religion to explain away economic inequality, from the 1950s on economic elites have intentionally and strategically spread the gospel of Economics 101 throughout American political and popular culture in a similar way.

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Of course, it's a classic bit of political opportunism, and gives the PM a well - timed «I'm a man of the people» story to tell: instead of hobnobbing with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos or decamping to Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane Canuck.

As economic tensions between Silicon Valley elites and the rest of society increase — affordable housing in California among the flash points — the approach to contract workers may need to change.

President Donald Trump landed in Switzerland this morning, and will spend the next two days among the global elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos, where he is expected to advocate for an «America First» agenda in an environment that is antithetical to those principles.

Perhaps the media moguls in charge of newsrooms across the continent are feeling the sway of this uncomfortable squirming from the economic elites.

He mocked elites who focused on trade policy's benefits but who ignored the painful economic losses in too many communities.

While the regime seems likely to remain stable in 2018, the struggle for power and assets among the political elite will continue to escalate, and economic and foreign policy challenges create long - term uncertainty.

Mr Rittenberg, Mao's former interpreter, says that promoting a single popular figure may have been a deliberate strategy of the party elite, in the hope that such a politician could more effectively carry out the difficult economic and social reforms which Mr Xi says are needed.

Much like the crony capitalist elite dining in Davos, the fine purveyors of bogus economic theory inhabiting the halls of the Marriner Eccles building are probably a tad bit concerned with the recent rise in rates.

To those who wish to hold their wealth exclusively in paper assets, implicitly trusting the policy elites to resurrect normally functioning capital markets and economic conditions, we say good luck.

The job of fixing financial markets is by no means over, and what does or does not happen over the next two years will be crucial, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said at the World Economic Forum annual gathering of the world's financial elite in Davos, Switzerland.

This essay examines Kazakhstan's latest economic modernization campaign, highlights its shortcomings, and proposes how the West could assist the country's ruling elite in carrying out reforms to complement the modernization process.

While the elites are worrying about economic crises and indifferent to the plight of the people, the news of the coming «Savior» is given directly to the lowest of the low in the social pecking order, the shepherds.

On the one side is elite capitalism, in which a few families or individuals own a large percentage of the wealth, there is a consequent absence of a large middle class, and control of the economic system is by the elite.

This is despite the sophistication of the Communist Party, says Pei, in effective economic patronage in building a supportive wealthy and influential social elites through cooptation.

Although elites in many Third World countries, and in formerly Second World countries as well, have profited from economic globalization and cooperated with it, even they are beginning to recognize its catastrophic consequences.

When this happens the poor will be further victimized and U.S. economic elites can be expected to use racism and ideological campaigns blaming the victim to take attention away from their own role in managing a crisis in defense of their own interests.

The hierarchy of power remained the U.S. embassy at the pinnacle, the Salvadoran military and economic elites a little below, and the civilian government looking good in U.S. papers but nearly powerless in practice.

and Guatemala (the real power brokers along with the U.S. embassy and economic elites) agreed to U.S. plans for elections in the 1980s after the United States assured them that, following the elections, their power would be enhanced through large increases in military assistance.

To quote Paul Brass in his essay on ethnicity and nationalism, «The cultural and religious forms, values and practices of South Asian countries have become political resources of the elite in competition for political power and economic advantages.»

In the New Economic Policy, only 10 % of the elites are the real beneficiaries.

While homemakers were ceding power in their own domains to experts, the feminist revolution, he charges, was «hijacked by new economic and social elites.»

In electing Trump, the American precariat has manifested perhaps an unconscious collective desire to make the economic elite — the untouchable 0.1 percent that has ravaged their lives — politically accountable.

Rhodes sought to channel the enthusiasm of Britain's nascent democracy towards a powerful assertion of national superiority, in order to distract the masses from their own exploitation, derail plans to redress economic inequality through social welfare reform, and legitimise an economic agenda pursuing the interests of a small financial elite.

The main source of Orbán's conflict with Western elites is rather economic in nature.

John P. McCormick: I think that a lack of the kind of class consciousness that was characteristic of the ancient Roman and medieval Florentine republics — in particular, the lack of a thorough - going distrust and resentment of the political influence of economic elites within modern republics — is the single greatest barrier to a revival of Machiavellian democratic republicanism today.

Popular dissatisfaction with the entire Ukrainian political and economic elites finally spilled out in the social revolution played out in the Maidan in Kyiv in recent months.

The recent discussion in the UK about Scotland would very much suggest that British political elites view it as a matter of getting the economic appeals right.

Foley points out that the information age and the emergence of a younger, educated elite are factors that have forced substantial developments in the GCC countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) and have resulted in political and economic reforms.

Voters in declining industrial cities left behind by the global economy provided the decisive margin, which ought to give American economic and political elites a serious...

In doing so, it «scientifises» politically controversial opinions on the economic crisis and praises the rise of a competent European elite.

Voters in declining industrial cities left behind by the global economy provided the decisive margin, which ought to give American economic and political elites a serious jolt.

Desire for sovereignty and independence, responses to austerity and economic inequality and hostility to the elites in London and the South East have all figured in the torrent of post-Brexit analysis.

Of course, most narratives of Trump's rise have emphasized just the opposite: widespread distrust of elites, the sheer number of Republicans vying for the nomination, a weak economic recovery, and the media's fixation on outrageous and «shareable» stories play a part in almost any thinkpiece on his candidacy.

In the opposing corner is the country's economic elite, stirred up by industry lobbies and alternative right - wing movements.

Interpretations of the National Interest have been at the forefront of the debate in an entirely new way for the British, pitching referendum against parliamentary voting, domestic and against foreign policy issues, numerical majorities against political and economic arguments, elites against elites.

However, it remains true that many of the officers integrated into the military in the peace deals that ended the war were essentially handed control over various key economic interests around mining («rackets», if you prefer), and are part of a web of elites who control important parts of the regional economy.

Before the recent decades of economic growth there could have been some space for a urban elite against rural people type of movement in East Thrace and Instabul.

He called on the leaders to sustain the fight against corruption, noting that studies had shown that the leadership elite had been forming alliance with the economic elite, and the traditional rulers to perpetuate themselves in power.

«The coalition's dead end economic policies may please the self - interested City elite, but for real people in real communities they are a tragedy — a national disgrace.»

«1964, with its focus on economic underperformance and relative decline, presided over by an out of touch Tory elite, is particularly resonant given the likely electoral battleground in 2015,» the pair concluded.

Working class kids need to see people like themselves succeeding, but as report after report has shown, the tops jobs in the UK are overwhelmingly filled by people from elite educational and socio - economic backgrounds.

I expressed my views in this regard on WhatsApp last weekend, «Any country in which its elites consider re-electing a president like Buhari just as thousands of citizens are murdered across the country with not a single person arrested; a president who can not make an intelligent conversation on any policy or global issue with other global leaders; a president whose EFCC and DSS engage in open confrontation; a regime which crippled the economy and relies on cyclical movements in oil prices as its sole economic lever; a regime under which 10 million jobs are lost; and key accusations against top officials are treated with levity; just as the regime appears complicit in the invasion of its senate by thugs and seizure of mace... such a country is in serious trouble, that is if it isn't doomed.

But if the assessments of Cao and Miller are correct — if UC postdocs will indeed rank among the nation's top postdoc earners, if the new workplace protections really are without precedent in so elite an academic system, and if the pact in fact heralds serious economic improvement — these facts say more about the generally dismal circumstances of young academic researchers than they do about the prosperity and security in store for those employed at UC.

Emissions in China are expected to rise for years, given the importance China's political elite continue to place on economic growth.

Paul Cheetham, Senior Lecturer in Archaeological Sciences and co-director of the project, added, «We are looking at the rural elite of late - Roman Britain, living through the economic collapse that took place during this period.

And now the bad news: That same research says only an elite few get to stay in that economic stratosphere — and nonwhite workers remain among those who face far longer odds.

For example, if I believe that human societies are inherently amoral, unjust, and governed by powerful elites who rig the economic, political, and educational game in their favor, then I might endorse the late Brazilian social activist Paulo Freire's «pedagogy of the oppressed,» wherein students are taught to view social relations in terms of power and domination.

Last February, in a speech in Washington, D.C. that drew 45 of the nation's governors as well as a hefty sample of the nation's education policy elite, Microsoft chairman Bill Gates issued a jeremiad on the state of the American high school, arguing that this venerable institution is obsolete and a threat to the nation's economic and political well - being.