Sentences with phrase «economic purposes of»

It also could provide a means whereby other influential factors could be investigated and addressed, such as differences in the social and economic purposes of broadcasting, the social sources of violence and how media portrayals interact with those causes, how the restraints and traditions of media production cause the media to pick up particular cultural images while ignoring others, and how particular audiences respond to and use media images.

When most of our current pedagogical practices were developed more than a century ago, the essential economic purpose of public schools was to produce industrial workers who were fast and reliable when assigned repetitive mechanical or clerical tasks.

So seemingly «weird «legislation is not the result of some federalist conspiracy or EU power grab, it's integral to the core economic purpose of the EU.

(3) the population's consent to the use of that monopoly for the economic purpose of shielding the legal profession from having to change its method of delivering services so as to be compatible with the economic ability of the population to afford the profession's legal services; and,

We now know that the economic purpose of copyright law is instrumentalist in nature, namely, to ensure the orderly production and distribution of, and access to, works of art and intellect.

We now know that the economic purpose of copyright law is instrumentalist in

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Driving forces cited in the study include increasing life expectancy, elimination of pensions, economic uncertainy and re-visioning of later life towards purpose and social engagement.

Sounding somewhat impatient for former prime minister Wilfrid Laurier's promise that the 20th century belonged to Canada, the stated purpose of their gathering was to «do something to overcome the growing feeling of unrest in evidence in various parts of the Dominion, to improve economic conditions, and to establish a better understanding and spirit of co-operation between the several Provinces.»

Independent economists say it's a mystifying piece of tax policy that has no clear, long - term economic purpose and few — if any — recent comparable examples.

The economist who originally devised the measure of all the cash flowing through an economy, Simon Kuznets, warned the world not to use his invention for the very purpose it has served: as a guide to political and economic choices.

There are many organizations whose purpose is to promote economic development or provide assistance to help particular types of people succeed in business.

The Bank of Canada uses its own internal economic forecasts for monetary policy purposes.

Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

Budget 2013 continues to use the average of the private sector economic forecasts for budget planning purposes.

The Government has continued the practice, first adopted by the Liberals in 1996, of using the average of the private sector economic forecasts for budget and fall update planning purposes.

However, given the uncertainties caused by the financial crisis, the Harper Government introduced the «risk adjustment factor» in its October 2010 Update of Economic and Fiscal Projections, whereby the average of the private sector economic forecasts for nominal GDP was adjusted downwards for fiscal planning pEconomic and Fiscal Projections, whereby the average of the private sector economic forecasts for nominal GDP was adjusted downwards for fiscal planning peconomic forecasts for nominal GDP was adjusted downwards for fiscal planning purposes.

As a historical matter, the original purpose of the corporation — reflected in debates about limited liability and general incorporation statutes — was to facilitate economic growth by enabling projects that required large - scale, long - term investment.

Secondary funds serve an important purpose by helping to enhance market stability during times of economic uncertainty.

The primary purpose of any income statement is to report a company's earnings to investors and managers over a specific period of time, so they can understand how the firm is performing on a core, economic basis.

[A] mong the elements to be taken into account for purposes of determining what constitutes an «extraordinary» action, which would normally be outside the apparent authority of senior executives, are the economic magnitude of the action in relation to corporate assets and earnings, the extent of risk involved, the time span of the action's effect, and the cost of reversing the action.

The average of the private sector forecasts forms the basis for the economic assumptions used for fiscal planning purposes in the budget and fall update.

An average of private sector economic forecasts for a number of selected economic variables was used for budget planning purposes rather than the Department of Finance's economic forecast.

But we argue that the underlying social purpose of such Jubilees — to keep debt within the reasonable ability to be paid without social and economic polarisation — could be recreated via alternative mechanisms, and we discuss the politico - economic arguments for, and against, doing so.

Because status as an «employee» for purposes of the FLSA depends on the totality of circumstances rather than on any technical label, courts must examine the «economic reality» of the working relationship.

«Meanwhile, other jurisdictions are ahead of B.C. in terms of encouraging farming and food processing to support, expand, and sustain their agriculture sector for environmental, health and economic purposes,» said Dix.

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The purpose of the business mission is to strengthen trade and economic cooperation in the agro-industrial sphere between the Republic of Kazakhstan and the Russian Federation.

The views expressed herein are those of Schroders Investment Management (Schroders), are for informational purposes only, and are subject to change based on prevailing market, economic, and other conditions.

The purpose of the investigation is to determine if the steel being imported into this country impairs our national economic and military security.»

Industrial hemp is allowed to be cultivated for research purposes in Arkansas; the research program is carried out by the University of Arkansas's Division of Agriculture and the Arkansas Economic Development Commission.

Allocations may not total 100 % of net assets because the table includes the notional value of derivatives (the economic value for purposes of calculating periodic payment obligations), in addition to the market value of securities.

The purpose of the Bernanke - Yellen monetary policy has been to lower longer - term rates and pump up asset prices creating a wealth effect to spur spending and real economic growth.

The choice of Freeland as co-chair of an economic advisory council serves a double purpose: bolstering the Liberal leader's relatively weak economic credentials as well as Freeland profile before she runs in the upcoming Toronto Centre byelection, which promises to be an epic struggle for supremacy between the Liberals and NDP.

The purpose of the Stock Ownership Guidelines is to more closely align the interests of our executive officers with the interests of our other stockholders through good and bad economic times.

I have already indicated how liberalism has been implicated in the subordination of politics to economic purposes and institutions.

This was assumed by most people until quite recent times, but around 1980 a series of policies were put in place on a global basis, the purpose of which was to reduce the capacity of political bodies to control economic actors.

The relevant question here, Stein said, is whether devoting resources to increasing economic growth is a better way of uplifting the poor than devoting those resources directly to such a purpose.

The United Church of Christ's study paper, Christian Faith and Economic Life (1987), for example, declares that the purpose of the church's political advocacy must be «to achieve the biblical concept of economic justiceEconomic Life (1987), for example, declares that the purpose of the church's political advocacy must be «to achieve the biblical concept of economic justiceeconomic justice.»

In it we argue that for purposes of developing economic theory, human beings should be considered persons - in - community.

But part of the attraction of Whitehead for me is that he clarifies questions of value and their relation to fact, and strongly supports the subordination of economic values to larger purposes.

Again, my purpose is to point out that the economists» description of how most of us act in our economic dealings most of the time has become a norm.

Yet in a certain situation one particular model among these models, all of which are legitimate on general principles, may be the only correct one effectively to achieve the humane purpose of an economic order.

The human being is pictured for economic purposes as caring only for the consumption of goods and services.

In this construal, the end of history — meaning, more or less, the globalization of our kind of political and economic order — depended neither upon social contracts nor upon the promise of covenantal purpose.

Whether the rhetoric is «building the revolution» or «creating an economic miracle,» the reality is the violation of personal, civil and political rights in the name of a worthy social purpose.

In one sense the discovery of human individuality was necessary for the development of human rights, the economic individualism orientated to profit and free market produced the modern economy; the separation of human being from nature coupled with the autonomy of the world of science helped the development of technology; and the autonomy of different areas of life like the arts and the government, each to follow purposes and laws inherent in it, did make for unfettered creativity in the various fields.

Gilpin poses a fundamental question: «Is the purpose of economic activity to benefit individual consumers, to promote certain social welfare goals, or to maximize national power?»

They recognized that the GNP was far from an ideal measure of economic well being, but they affirmed that it was good enough for practical purposes.

In the technical, economic, and political spheres of his existence he finds himself «in the grip of incomprehensible powers» which trample again and again on all human purposes.

But this is because capitalism has succeeded in its primary purpose as an economic system, that of production.