Sentences with phrase «movements than the economy»

This is not surprising, given that the manufacturing sector usually shows much greater cyclical movements than the economy as a whole.

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But even before the financial crisis, the reform movement was stalled by the need to stimulate the economy rather than cut spending.
There's an economy of movement that these guys use on the court, where a pump fake or a hesitation seems to have more of an effect on the game than a 40 - inch vertical or roadrunner speed.
«The reality is that migrants from other EU countries are very beneficial to the UK's economy, notably because they help to address skills shortages and pay more tax and social security contributions per head, and get fewer benefits, than UK workers; that free movement of workers is a key part of the EU's single market; that hundreds of thousands of UK nationals work in other EU countries.»
Scholars and activists such as Angela Davis, Nancy Fraser, and bell hooks have criticized second - wave feminism, calling it a movement that has been whitewashed and hijacked by women driven by the desire to acquire status and material gain within a capitalist economy, rather than achieve reproductive rights across gender, class, and race categories.
Going further than a sabotaging of art through an unconventional register of forms and techniques, it was art as distinct social territory, governed by institutions, and determined by the market economy, that was in these movements» crosshairs.»
I am not yet in my 40's but was raised in a very alternative community of people in nyc in the 70's and 80's... amidst the depression of the city at that time, there were tons of free - thinking individuals, groups and companies leading the way presenting biofuel - concepts and ideas, or promoting industries based on recycling things rather than being a disposable society... there have always been large numbers of people in the pro-environment movement country and world - wide that cried out about how alternative thinking would lead to newer, more positive and less harmfully - impacting industries and tried to introduce inventions that could have spurred new economies... Had the auto industry not blocked things, we could have had more energy efficient cars decades ago... but they did not want the «expense» of helping foster this new industry... it is so damn sad it took a war to make people «wake up» about alternative fuels and how exciting the options are.
The climate change movement (not the climate change facts) seems to always come down to the need for actions that can only be taken by a centrally planned economy (I think experiencing the climate change may be a better option than central planning).
And Taust sums it all up beautifully when he / she says: «The climate change movement (not the climate change facts) seems to always come down to the need for actions that can only be taken by a centrally planned economy (I think experiencing the climate change may be a better option than central planning).»
Building on this critique, Speth goes on to conclude in his book that: (1) «today's system of political economy, referred to here as modern capitalism, is destructive of the environment, and not in a minor way but in a way that profoundly threatens the planet» (2) «the affluent societies have reached or soon will reach the point where, as Keynes put it, the economic problem has been solved... there is enough to go around» (3) «in the more affluent societies, modern capitalism is no longer enhancing human well - being» (4) «the international social movement for change — which refers to itself as «the irresistible rise of global anti-capitalism» — is stronger than many imagine and will grow stronger; there is a coalescing of forces: peace, social justice, community, ecology, feminism — a movement of movements» (5) «people and groups are busily planting the seeds of change through a host of alternative arrangements, and still other attractive directions for upgrading to a new operating system have been identified» (6) «the end of the Cold War... opens the door... for the questioning of today's capitalism.»
And, with young and grassroots environmentalists more inspired by the vision of creating a new energy economy than regulating the old one, there's new hope that we will soon see the emergence of a more expansive, relevant, and powerful ecological movement, one grounded in possibilities, not limits.
People against the Tiny Home movement are essentially saying that rather than glorify the idea of giving up comforts to survive, the U.S. Government should fix the economy so that people don't view the idea of living in a home about the size of a standard RV as reasonable.Besides which, the argument continues, the people who could most benefit from having a Tiny Home are those who can't afford it.
In the vanguard of this movement is the growing number of empty nesters, who no longer have to base their housing decisions on the needs of their children, and the «creative class» — people who work in the economy of information and knowledge rather than manufacturing.
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