Sentences with phrase «like economic systems»

Some do, just like some economic systems require money.

It is almost like the economic system during the bull phase self - organizes for the largest possible failure.

Not exact matches

«The economic system (in London) is like a Jenga tower... you don't know what will happen if you pull pieces out,» Douglas Flint, HSBC chairman, told MPs on Tuesday.

«They brought in someone like a Dominic Barton, who has seen all the different economic systems and how they're evolving.»

Like the rest of Europe, Italy has endemic problems: A north - south divide and economic divergence, corruption and bureaucracy as well as troubles with migration, anti-establishment politics and a political system that is sluggish at best, and chaotic at worst.

The country is an economic powerhouse but is still developing and, like many African countries, its banking system is severely underdeveloped.

For what we've privatized already, we're going to tax the economic rent to recover for the country what these owners didn't create, like the phone systems that Carlos Slim made in Mexico that Bill mentioned before.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education,» he said.

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

I think there's a lot of amazing people that don't get to college, not only that do things like I do but because their voices just aren't heard in the tsunami of people that apply every year to colleges in such an economic impacted school system here which we have here in America where people have to go into massive amounts of debt just to go to college and get an education.

I understand that the OWS movement is looking to minimize economic disparites via handfull of measures — IE: revoke the laws that grant corporations «personhood», cut the Delaware loophole that allows conflicts of interest, and separate commercial and investment banking systems like the U.S. did in the early 20th century.

Brunner is right that there is a certain impersonality about a system of justice, a definiteness and a structured quality which is not dependent on attitudes of personal like or dislike.3 Yet justice within a family requires adaptation to individual need, and justice within an economic order requires some variation in income according to contribution as well as need.

The first is that they might become, or be made into, palliatives to structural situations caused by the economic system, rather like the St.Vincent de Paul Conferences in the XVIII and XIXth Centuries: fine people but ineffective in the struggle to change social relations.

That is like saying a barter system is major flaw compared to using currency as a medium of economic exchange.

I would like to vote Republican but my fear of closed minded bible thumpers who want to set back our education system, social reforms, free thought and our culture as a whole, outweighs my fear of skyrocketing national debt, slow economic growth and higher taxes (incidentally higher taxes are coming no matter who is in power.

Like the pastoral letters on economics produced by America's Roman Catholic bishops nearly two decades ago, such ecumenical social teaching would not prescribe specific policy choices, but it would insist that concern for the common good and the building up of community are requirements for any economic system.

It seems like you are unfamiliar with the economic systems of the time.

They have inspired powerful movements of social protest (like Hebrew prophetism in monarchical Israel, or the bhakti movements in medieval India) which have attacked both the oppressive rigidity of the religious systems themselves, as well as of the unjust socio - economic and political structures of the societies in which these religions flourished» (Voices from the Third World, p. 153)

Systems like these, however, don't solve the problem that voting is irrational from an economic raionality perspective.

In the meantime, to those Tom Harris charcaters in the Labour party who want to present electoral reform as an issue of relevance only to bourgeois liberal Guardian - readers (like me), I say: how dare you oppose a system that — on the evidence of Soskice and Iversen's study — is better for social spending and economic equality?

Sadly, some people can't seem to put partisan instincts to one side — as this report commissioned by the Yes campaign just before Christmas showed - you may also like to read this blog from the very same author who, a year ago, wisely said: «At a time of economic crisis, when people are calling for clear leadership and direction, it would be foolish to abolish a [voting] system that carries out these functions.»

«I think some of the governor's economic development — the broad - based reforms to the business climate and the more tactical, programmatic work like regional councils and START - UP are taking hold, and you're seeing the positive effect in the vibe of people, in the comments of people,» Adams said, referencing a system of tax - free zones rooted in public universities.

Like California, North Carolina has gone through a lengthy process of building a strong teacher development system only to dismantle it for political and economic reasons.

According to the World Economic Forum, America's transportation system is currently ranked 25th in the world, behind countries like Barbados and Oman.

Inflation higher than we would like, but economic weakness, especially that affecting the financial system comes first.

Since Millennials are also not in the financial position to be doing other things that stimulate the economy like buying cars or having children, lack of spending ripples through the economic system.

From there, the idea of government responsibility in providing economic security and welfare grew, from unimaginable realities, such as the English Poor Laws of 1601 that called for the dependent poor population to wear a shameful P on their clothing, to shadows of our present Social Security system, like Thomas Paine's Agrarian Justice that called for a system that included annual benefits of 10 pounds sterling paid to every person age 50 and older, to protect against poverty in old - age.

The 8 - part appraisal system included indicators like «protection from adverse influences» and «relative economic stability.»

One thing that did irk me a little throughout playing the game is that while there's nuanced and complex economic system going on underneath the surface, I didn't feel like it was actually effecting me all that much.

Carbon taxes like those suggested in the «Stern Report» to the UK Government, about $ 100 / metric tonne of carbon dioxide (equivalent to 88 US cents / gallon of gasoline and so on throughout the system) would accelerate whatever technology, economic forces, and lifestyle decisions might choose as paths towards a less carbon intensive lifestyle.

Evidently, concerns like long - term human wellbeing, biodiversity preservation and the integrity of Earth's body are momentarily at odds with powerful economic and political forces which relentlessly and unrealistically maintain an economic system marked by unrestricted and increasing per capita consumption, unbridled and expanding economic globalization, and continuous and rapid growth of the human population.

So in the case of global warming just like many other cases, I would indeed say that if the economic and quasi-economic rules of journalism dictate that a complex story shouldn't be covered, indeed, «global warming» shouldn't be covered because it is one of the very complex systems on Earth influenced by very many complex effects and their relationships.

The human economic system, wherein we convert natural capital, like trees and land, into human capital, like houses and food is one.

«The possibility that a country like India could move to a fully renewable electricity system within three decades, and do it more economically than the current system, shows that the developing countries can skip the emission intensive phase in their economic development.

Yesterday, I spoke at a CEDA (Committee for the Economic Development of Australia) lunch on the topic «What would life be like with an emissions trading system for Australia».

Namely, market fundamentalism (like Marxism) looks OK on paper, but in practice, Romney / Clinton / Obama - style hybrid economic systems just plain work better?

The SOUTHAMPTON CHAMBER OF COMMERCE — REPORT OF THE Economic Crisis Committee 1933 accurately identified the fundamental flaws in our banking and monetary system but like all other threats to the monopoly of banking interests, was buried.

Agree with you there Jim C. Climate time series data is like economic time series in that the system is non-ergodic and that any parameters from this are non repeating and unpredictable.

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.

This is the first of three articles on understanding complexity, and how our energy, economic and ecological systems, like unruly children, tend to defy our attempts to change them.

Moving beyond the fact that the Post's own he said / she said type reporting, giving much visibility to anti-science syndrome suffering haters of a livable economic system (like George Will), perhaps one reason is that prominent and serious reporting on basic issues of global importance like seen within Le Monde and in the Planète page are all not a regular (and certainly not a prominent) part of reporting by any traditional U.S. media outlet.

With production growth in areas like the Midwest and Pennsylvania, expanding our pipeline system will ensure that we move energy efficiently, maximizing the economic and environmental advantages of our status as a world energy leader.

But if such approaches are going to overcome the limitations of GDP, we'll need to reshape our entire economic system so that it literally functions like an ecosystem — with the outputs from one enterprise or industrial process becoming the inputs of another.

Why does our economic system place a higher value on disposable and often unnecessary goods and services than on the things we really need to survive and be healthy, like clean air, clean water, and productive soil?

Specifically, key parameters of the Human System, such as fertility, health, migration, economic inequality, unemployment, GDP per capita, resource use per capita, and emissions per capita, must depend on the dynamic variables of the Human — Earth coupled system.26 Not including these feedbacks would be like trying to make El Niño predictions using dynamic atmospheric models but with sea surface temperatures as an external input based on future projections independently produced (e.g., by the UN) without feedSystem, such as fertility, health, migration, economic inequality, unemployment, GDP per capita, resource use per capita, and emissions per capita, must depend on the dynamic variables of the Human — Earth coupled system.26 Not including these feedbacks would be like trying to make El Niño predictions using dynamic atmospheric models but with sea surface temperatures as an external input based on future projections independently produced (e.g., by the UN) without feedsystem.26 Not including these feedbacks would be like trying to make El Niño predictions using dynamic atmospheric models but with sea surface temperatures as an external input based on future projections independently produced (e.g., by the UN) without feedbacks.

What would that economic system look like?

By retrofitting carbon capture to existing polluting facilities like coal power stations, they have the option of continuing operation with lower emissions, potentially overcoming political and economic obstacles to system transformation.

Instead of studying the complex economic systems that sustained another sophisticated world, and their eventual demise, we seem to prefer to read about things that are wholly different from our own experience, like the ascetic saints of the late and post-Roman worlds, who are very fashionable in late - antique studies.

Just like the job - seeking EU citizen who lost his / her worker status, the Citizenship Directive itself provides for the economically inactive in his first three months of residence a «gradual system -LSB-...] which seeks to safeguard the right of residence and access to social assistance», taking into consideration «various factors characterising the individual situation of each applicant for social assistance and, in particular, the duration of the exercise of any economic activity» (paras 46 - 48).

Temporary foreign workers, like other marginalized groups in Canada, are unable to access the justice system to enforce their legal rights because of the disadvantages they face resulting from their lower social and economic status.