Sentences with phrase «economic wealth and power»

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The reason fairness would require that this ratio be equal to one is that, as argued by the Italian economist Luigi Pasinetti in his 1981 book, Structural Change and Economic Growth: A Theoretical Essay on the Dynamics of the Wealth of Nations, a fair interest rate is such that the purchasing power of one hour of labour stays constant through time even when its monetary equivalent is lent or borrowed.

And most importantly, can it outweigh the impact its benefactors have, by definition, already made on global society, simply by amassing huge amounts of wealth, information and power through an inherently long - biased economic systAnd most importantly, can it outweigh the impact its benefactors have, by definition, already made on global society, simply by amassing huge amounts of wealth, information and power through an inherently long - biased economic systand power through an inherently long - biased economic system?

Nevertheless, I could not escape the feeling that the university was just a tiny Orthodox sanctuary amid the countless profane temples to economic wealth and political power that dominate the new Moscow.

Wealth is capital, stored - up economic power; it tends to be stable, and to grow.

As was pointed out above, wealth translates into economic power and control through corporate stock and nonincorporated businesses, real estate and state and local bonds.

Economic globalization has created class societies with differences in wealth and power as great as those against which Marx protested.

To maintain this form of socialism requires that China avoid huge concentrations of wealth and economic power.

That beliefs can affect actions even on the part of persons of great wealth and power has recently been suggested by the change of climate in the annual meetings of world economic leaders that have been held in Davos, Switzerland, until this year, when the group met in New York

Since the economic system also concentrates wealth and power in fewer and fewer hands and excludes the majority from participation even in its material benefits, it generates enormous suffering.

We are forced to conclude that, as in Solomon's day, Yahwists believed that the power, prestige, wealth and apparent security of the crown and the nation were bought at a price too dear — widening economic disparity between rich and poor, the ruthless exploitation of society's weaker members, a deepening acquisitiveness and an inevitably accompanying disregard of the justice and righteousness of Yahweh, the meaning of covenant, and the true practice of the Yahweh cult.

Right now there is probably not enough sentiment in favor of economic equality and redistribution of wealth to make use of the knowledge or to mobilize the political power.

Some of the areas to be covered will include economic realities in the global village, capitalism and the distribution of wealth, an examination of the multinational corporation, a case study of neocolonialism, power realities with a developing country, educational realities in the third world, a comparison of values — particularly East Africa and North America.

The slow and steady build - up of democratic wealth - holding institutions provides an obvious avenue for the re-animation and re-radicalisation of both, through the generation of a new set of economic institutions and political power bases.

The simple flaw in allocating voting power by economic wealth is that it leads to systems of government that have already been tried and rejected by most civilised countries.

And so once a year - when the wealth, power and fame of the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos is all over the news — we choose to point out that the world needs to address inequality if we are going to end poverAnd so once a year - when the wealth, power and fame of the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos is all over the news — we choose to point out that the world needs to address inequality if we are going to end poverand fame of the World Economic Forum meeting at Davos is all over the news — we choose to point out that the world needs to address inequality if we are going to end poverty.

The Green Party would use progressive taxation, public goods and services, and economic democracy to turn around the growing inequality of wealth, income and political power and the acceleration toward climate catastrophe.

He continued, «Thus, the creation of a free market, concealing economic and geographical borders, would erode the justification for using war as the quickest avenue to wealth and power, and lessen its appeal.

Washington, DC About Blog The National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) propels women entrepreneurs into economic, social and political spheres of power worldwide by strengthening the wealth creating capacity of our members and promoting economic development within the entrepreneurial community.

This means that there would be the need to overcome the root causes of violence, within each nation, with the elimination of disparities in wealth between the «top» and «bottom» in the social scale and at international level with the elimination of disparities in economic and social development between rich and poor nations, for one hand, and the dispute between the great powers for world power, on the other hand.

And a convoluted tale it is, involving the country's wealth of natural resources (coal, iron, copper and water for powering machines and transporting goods), the comparatively high literacy rate that enabled common folk to educate themselves in science and technology, a patent system that protected the rights of inventors and gave them economic incentive to both create and refine devices, and a population large and wealthy enough to form a profitable market for products the new industries turned oAnd a convoluted tale it is, involving the country's wealth of natural resources (coal, iron, copper and water for powering machines and transporting goods), the comparatively high literacy rate that enabled common folk to educate themselves in science and technology, a patent system that protected the rights of inventors and gave them economic incentive to both create and refine devices, and a population large and wealthy enough to form a profitable market for products the new industries turned oand water for powering machines and transporting goods), the comparatively high literacy rate that enabled common folk to educate themselves in science and technology, a patent system that protected the rights of inventors and gave them economic incentive to both create and refine devices, and a population large and wealthy enough to form a profitable market for products the new industries turned oand transporting goods), the comparatively high literacy rate that enabled common folk to educate themselves in science and technology, a patent system that protected the rights of inventors and gave them economic incentive to both create and refine devices, and a population large and wealthy enough to form a profitable market for products the new industries turned oand technology, a patent system that protected the rights of inventors and gave them economic incentive to both create and refine devices, and a population large and wealthy enough to form a profitable market for products the new industries turned oand gave them economic incentive to both create and refine devices, and a population large and wealthy enough to form a profitable market for products the new industries turned oand refine devices, and a population large and wealthy enough to form a profitable market for products the new industries turned oand a population large and wealthy enough to form a profitable market for products the new industries turned oand wealthy enough to form a profitable market for products the new industries turned out.

These are the Social Darwinists (sometimes called Social Positivists) whose thinking stood behind the great economic expansion, was challenged by a global recession, and ultimately fell out of favor in the United States when the princely accumulation of wealth and power by a generation of Robber Barons was recognized as jarringly undemocratic.

Given the near - term and enduring benefits of electric power expansion in developing countries, the other long - term effect of expanded coal - powered generation is accrued wealth and economic growth (along with health costs if they are dirty plants, of course).

You say — «Given the near - term and enduring benefits of electric power expansion in developing countries, the other long - term effect of expanded coal - powered generation is accrued wealth and economic growth...»

Undoubtedly, our preoccupation with economic growth, and the way it cedes enormous power to the «wealth creators», is at the heart of it.

Another obvious relationship is how Australia's enviable wealth and economic prosperity depended upon reliable and affordable power supplies.

The Paris climate deal and the follow - up climate gabfests such as in Marrakech are merely a ruse to market and promote «climate change» as an imminent and dangerous threat in order to promote many of the Left's social agendas like wealth redistribution, power, control and the elimination of capitalism as the dominant system of economic freedom and prosperity in favour of a centrally planned system i.e socialism / communism.

For a nation as rich in natural wealth and resources as Brazil, this transition of power is not important merely in terms of politics or global affairs, but perhaps for something much farther - reaching — like demonstrating to the world that social and economic progress and development needn't necessarily be in conflict with the preservation of the natural world.

As long as science is willing and ready to serve power, everything is fine and smooth; but if science, as in relation to climate change, beigins to challenge fundamental aspects of how wealth and power and weilded and distributed, and the consequences of our socio / economic system; then science had better watch out, because, those who, for whatever reason, threaten the status quo are the enemy.

A friend of mine is concerned about the existence today of income inequality that is leading to the accumulation of disproportionate wealth and economic and political power into the hands of a few.

It is also important to note that this was at a time when the Trans - Atlantic Slave Trade was a major source of economic gain for North American and European powers, who used un-free labour of Africans to amass the wealth that allowed these regions to enjoy otherwise unimaginable luxury and leisure and which would later drive the West's Industrial Revolution (also built on the backs of Blacks, through the use of exploited Africans who, in Africa, extracted the natural resources used to build Western cities, factories and products of the Industrial Revolution).

A friend of mine is concerned that the existence today of excessive executive compensation is leading to the accumulation of disproportionate wealth and economic and political power in the hands of a few.

Washington, DC About Blog The National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) propels women entrepreneurs into economic, social and political spheres of power worldwide by strengthening the wealth creating capacity of our members and promoting economic development within the entrepreneurial community.

Washington, DC About Blog The National Association of Women Business Owners (NAWBO) propels women entrepreneurs into economic, social and political spheres of power worldwide by strengthening the wealth creating capacity of our members and promoting economic development within the entrepreneurial community.