Prior to Rio there were many criticisms of the effects
of economistic policies on the poor, on traditional societies, on indigenous peoples, and on the environment.
The collapse of the Southeast Asia economies that had been hailed as the great success stories of
economistic policies has discredited the vision in the eyes of many.
This leaves to university administration the task of justifying the continuance of these disciplines
in economistic terms.
In practice there have been few successes even as measured in strictly
economistic terms.
I do believe that the dominance of
economistic thinking reduces our tendency to encourage the improvement of taste and our generosity toward one another.
In short they are prepared for trade - offs between short - term
economistic goals and environmental ones.
Others who recognize that this whole
economistic program is inherently destructive of the environmental, those whom I call Earthists, continued to work with labor to oppose NAFTA.
But Wolfers» assumption that because the less educated have fewer resources they have no reason to get married betrays a thoroughgoing
economistic view of the history of marriage» and more deeply of the human person.
Those with specific and more limited goals, which are prepared to accept the basic
economistic character of our civilization and work within it, supported the administration in pushing NAFTA through a reluctant Congress.
Trump's detractors may well have the better of that argument as far
as economistic thought goes.
The standard results of applying
economistic principles are to enrich the wealthy and impoverish the poor, with a diminishing middle class.
But they believe that the gains that come from
following economistic policies outweigh the losses and will eventually bring benefits even to those who are now suffering.
Defenders of economism will continue to explain that all of its failures are due to the refusal of the nations of the world to
implement economistic policies purely.
Whereas all other countries are aiming at increasing Gross Domestic or National Product, and thus organizing themselves
on economistic principles, Bhutan is committed to Gross National Happiness.
Recently our rulers established the World Trade Organization involving the surrender of national sovereignty to a
purely economistic organization protected from any popular influence.
We need, therefore, to approach the present,
economistic age with greater humility and a broader and deeper analysis.
The same concern led to the establishment during the same period of
global economistic institutions, especially the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
Cobb, then, presents us with two starkly different conceptual models of economic development for the poor, one
primarily economistic, one primarily earthist.
The collapse of the Asian economies which were viewed with such pride
by economistic thinkers has also undercut some of the idealism of economism.
Whatever concessions they have made to
economistic pressures, they continue to define themselves in terms of broader human values.
Whereas for Reagan and
Bush economistic goals were the goals, for Clinton and Gore they continue to be the dominant goals but environmental health is also an important goal that may require limitations to the pursuit of economic gain.
Miliband's positive offer — on zero - hours contracts, energy prices, non-doms, and the bedroom tax — was worthy but
narrowly economistic, and allowed the party to be backed into exactly the trap that Gregg McClymont and Ben Jackson warned about in 2011: defending a minority of losers from Conservative government without persuading swing voters that it offered a credible alternative.
It's all about the interests of the military - industrial complexes of the world, which as of today have found their ideal form of regime in the chinese capitalist - totalitarian regime, where no natural science gets to disturb the development of
economistic dogmatism.
In this new,
economistic order, the function of education is to improve the stock of human capital in the nation.
Shallow reasoning, that, but easy to fall into for an American, or anyone caught up
in economistic thinking.
Bottom Line 2: no, South Korea and Japan will not go to war over the Dodko islets, but despite all that
economistic thinking ought to imply, relations between the two countries really are seriously deteriorating, and in danger of becoming worse yet.
A frontal attack on this assumption should be more difficult for economists, along with those who
implement economistic policies, to ignore.
When, over decades, it becomes clear that not all ships are raised by the rising tide, that, indeed, the littlest ones are sunk, and many others are damaged, that only the yachts truly float freely, support of
economistic policies should end.
Economistic thinkers typically support this opposition, but as long as the issues are fought out within the nation, public opinion can support policies that involve some short - term economic losses for the sake of long - term environmental gains.
A few academic disciplines, such as ecology, have produced leaders who have given impressive leadership in warning us of the consequences
of economistic policies.
An important one is
the economistic judgment that agriculture should become more efficient.
The expansion of production that is central to
the economistic program overall adds to the violence done to the environment.
If economic theory had taken the other direction, then in
an economistic world there would be concern for the meeting of basic needs of all before adding to the wealth of the few.
It is not economism as such, but the particular theories that govern
our economistic world, that make us largely indifferent to the vast and ever - growing disparity in the distribution of the world's goods.
But there are some omissions that have a dramatic and direct effect upon how
an economistic world functions.
I believe that for the Chinese leadership the market is in the service of the nation and that it does not intend to subordinate the national wellbeing to economic considerations in
the economistic fashion.
The disruption of traditional society is a necessary condition for the emergence of
an economistic society.
In
an economistic society the highest good is wealth.
Economistic policies degrade land an water, rendering them less able to produce food in the future.
The prospects of feeding the world through
an economistic system are bleak.
The representatives of these many groups had come to see that
the economistic policies adopted by almost all nations were the common enemy.
Beginning in the sixties there have been waves of protest both against the transformation of the university into
an economistic institution and against academic disciplines that are not geared to the urgent issues of our time.