Sentences with phrase «not economic concept»

The rules target «non-public» information, a legal, not economic concept.

Not exact matches

by Tim Ferriss Forget the old concept of retirement and the rest of the deferred - life plan — there is no need to wait and every reason not to, especially in unpredictable economic times.

Do the concepts of race, religion and socio - economic status fade away if you focus on the concepts of family, faith (not religion) and community?

But the net - benefit test gives Canadians a false impression that the government is able to distinguish, on economic grounds, investments that will turn out well from those that won't — a concept Canadians would recognize as bizarre if applied to domestic firms.

From online to bricks and mortar, the very concept of what stores are, how consumers shop them, and even the core economic model for revenue, will be will be profoundly reinvented; changes sure to affect not only retailers large and small but any business with a stake in the global retail industry.

In the context of considering the NGP's economic burdens and benefits (NGP Report, Volume II, s. 2.4.4), the JRP noted that the concept of «ecological goods and services» was described during the hearing but that, based on the hearing record, the estimated costs for damages to ecosystem goods and services were not well quantified and based on a methodology that is not currently broadly accepted.

Policy leaders did not appreciate the connection between these long - standing concepts in American history and the rising problem of economic inequality.

This is a concept known as economic goodwill, not to be confused with accounting goodwill.

Furthermore, the Fed would like to adhere to the so - called «Taylor Rule» (in spite of Professor Taylor's protestations that it is misinterpreting and misusing his concept), a mathematical construct that purports to make monetary policy more «scientific» by establishing an arithmetic rule for varying the administered interest rate according to the variance of «actual from target inflation» (note that «inflation» refers to the change in a price index in this case, not the phenomenon of inflation of the money supply as such), as well as the variance of economic output from «potential output» (i.e, the so - called «output gap» is incorporated in the formula as well).

Therefore, it is of great importance for the nurture of human beings that the economic organization of society be based upon a comprehensive and not a partial concept of human nature.

By l970, the l6th General Assembly of UNESCO had defined the concept of a New International Economic Order which stated that the emerging nations would not be able to develop until they decreased their economic dependence on the FirsEconomic Order which stated that the emerging nations would not be able to develop until they decreased their economic dependence on the Firseconomic dependence on the First World.

This concept was based on the idea that the third - world nations could not truly develop until they achieved economic independence from the first and second worlds.

The concept «economic man'treats human beings as objects, not as subjects.

Although the company was a bit more hopeful that the downturn wouldn't last as long as it did, it has taken action by closing some locations and finding new concepts for them that are a better fit for the economic realities of the time.

Might it not be that eating and farming are inseparable concepts that belong together on the farm, not two distinct economic activities as we... [Read more...]

As well as being the first time in recent memory that meals have been made from scratch in D.C. Public Schools, the program represents the culmination of innovative efforts by D.C. Central Kitchen to build a successful economic model around concepts that don't normally associate in the public mind: local farming, job training for the down - and - out, and feeding the indigent.

Re: False Economy - No, I can not imagine a use for a website which explains economic concepts in a simple way - at a time like this.

If there is something to learn from this radical republican experience, it is that the concept of virtue is not inherently hostile to economic activity, nor is it intrinsically bound up with a defense of existing hierarchies and cultural exclusion.

Although this interesting concept has merit and potential, it's not the purpose of our economic development agency.

The Vice President, Dr. Bawumia, who is the head of the country's economic management team, has been tasked with the responsibility of ensuring all key government projects aimed at making the concept of «Ghana Beyond Aid» a reality, but his predecessor, believes the government has not done enough to show it is serious about the concept.

He adds that even if all its components could be replicated by the machine, the concept does not make economic sense.

Key concepts that were not considered in this study include the economic and health effects of cool pavements, and potential emissions savings from vehicle - road interactions (for example, smoother roads may translate to small improvements in fuel efficiency).

The authors admit that «Local Hollywood» is more difficult to describe than Global Hollywood as a concept; not least because there are different historical, cultural, political and economic forces at work in each location.

This concept, he says, «emphasizes that an adequate education must (1) prepare students to be citizens and economic participants in a democratic society; (2) relate to contemporary, not archaic educational needs; (3) be pegged to a «more than minimal» level; and (4) focus on opportunity rather than outcome.»

Despite the innovative education concepts of Global Citizenship Education (GCE) and Education for Sustainable Development, Economic Citizenship Education (ECE) has not yet been considered as a key component within the discussions on the UN Post 2015 Development Agenda.

As a result, poverty is a multifactorial and multidimensional concept that not only affects the unique situation of the individual, nor the socio - economic organization of a nation, but the overall status of the development of humanity.

In the resulting book, I will develop the theoretical concept of «borderless education»; present a series of narrative portraits that examine how transnational actors engage with the structures, content, pedagogy, and purposes of education in conflict settings; explore how this transnationalism is distinct from traditional aid and may address challenges of access to learning in conflict settings; and investigate the implications not only for conflict settings but also other situations of uncertainty, be that economic, political, technological, or related to globalization processes.

«The environment to which pupils and students are to adapt is not the economy of real experience but rather a mere ideal concept generated by mainstream economists, particularly those of the Chicago School of Economics who, in their pursuit of «economic imperialism», have applied it to education: Its concept of a market is a purely abstract super-conscious price and coordination mechanism according to which all human activity must be aligned.

Such statements reflect the current views of Barnes & Noble with respect to future events, the outcome of which is subject to certain risks, including, among others, the general economic environment and consumer spending patterns, decreased consumer demand for Barnes & Noble's products, low growth or declining sales and net income due to various factors, including store closings, higher - than - anticipated or increasing costs, including with respect to store closings, relocation, occupancy (including in connection with lease renewals) and labor costs, the effects of competition, the risk of insufficient access to financing to implement future business initiatives, risks associated with data privacy and information security, risks associated with Barnes & Noble's supply chain, including possible delays and disruptions and increases in shipping rates, various risks associated with the digital business, including the possible loss of customers, declines in digital content sales, risks and costs associated with ongoing efforts to rationalize the digital business and the digital business not being able to perform its obligations under the Samsung commercial agreement and the consequences thereof, the risk that financial and operational forecasts and projections are not achieved, the performance of Barnes & Noble's initiatives including but not limited to its new store concept and e-commerce initiatives, unanticipated adverse litigation results or effects, potential infringement of Barnes & Noble's intellectual property by third parties or by Barnes & Noble of the intellectual property of third parties, and other factors, including those factors discussed in detail in Item 1A, «Risk Factors,» in Barnes & Noble's Annual Report on Form 10 - K for the fiscal year ended April 30, 2016, and in Barnes & Noble's other filings made hereafter from time to time with the SEC.

It's good to see bad economic concepts fail, along with those who finance them, particularly when a society is not so dependent on debt finance that the failures will not cause a cascade of more failures.

The undue hardship standard was not explicitly defined in the Biden - backed law, but many courts interpreted it to require debtors to attempt to prove that their economic prospects would never improve, a concept known in legal circles as «certainty of hopelessness.»

The concept of not placing your bets for the future on any one economic condition is more important than any individual asset.

You won't find a bigger defender of consumer rights and economic justice than your humble blogger, but I have to confess that I've grown increasingly uncomfortable with the concept of APR and APY (annual percentage yield) as applied to my own lifestyle.

These new interpretations present a concept of what is really at stake in our «new» economic and cultural landscape, while harking back to early Modernism when tapestries were not only portable, but were indicative of enormous wealth and standing.

Nowadays it is rare to encounter critical reflections on aesthetic representation that do not involve the concept of space, whether its a social, emotional, institutional or economic space.

As someone who has mused on the concept of masturbation as an economic act, and enthused about the idea of a Plenitude Economy, I can't wait to read this manifesto and post a review.

Economic profit and environmental sustainability are not mutually exclusive; you can «go green» without putting yourself in the red, a concept TerraCycle self - defines as «eco-capitalism.»

Or rather than reduce government spending, an alternative solution [which is very alien concept these days] is to not to pass laws which will knowingly result in a decrease in the nation's economic growth.

The concept that economic growth doesn't have to be accompanied by rising carbon emissions — dubbed «decoupling» by the New York Times — has additional detail in a new Brookings Institution report that finds more than 30 states have seen those historical partners delinked and headed in different directions.

The economic uniqueness of the climate - change problem is not just that today's decisions have difficult - to - reverse impacts that will be felt very far out into the future, thereby straining the concept of time discounting and placing a heavy burden on the choice of an interest rate.

If the OccupyWallStreet people got any particular economic concept correct, sub-poverty level cash isn't the American dream.

The ideological struggle that is being fought now over the issue of «Climate Change» (and related, quasi-Marxist weasel concepts such as Sustainability) may not yet involve the bloodshed caused in the wars against Nazism and Stalinism, but the threat it poses to individual freedom and economic security is every bit as great.

Not only do they ensure that the materials with which we build our cities will be healthful and beneficial, they eliminate the very concept of waste and provide a clean, productive economic base for healthy urban growth.

But while still maintaining that such analysis is useful, I increasingly wonder if assigning dollar figures to currently unpriced nature, just undermines efforts to get people to see that there is more to nature, there is more to the world than the economic or financial value we place on it?I've been going back and forth about writing something about this ever since my colleague Stephen Messenger tried to explain why we must not consider nature priceless, but never quite got around to it — partly because I realize it's swimming upstream a bit and I wondered if I wasn't just overreacting or worrying to much about an abstract eco-philosophical concept.

Secondly, the difficulty in having the courts understand business economic concepts and management realities that they are not normally familiar with; it is especially challenging (i) to encourage the members of the court to relinquish their original viewpoint, which is normally that of protecting the interest, and (ii) to have them understand concepts such as the corporate profitability, the necessary return on shareholders» investments and the company's necessary competitive position.

Following changes effective February 1, 2014 to the SABS 2010, the concept of «economic loss» now acts not only as one of the requirements for benefit entitlement, but also as a cap on the quantum of benefits payable for accidents on or after the transition date where care is rendered by a non-professional service provider.

The writer argues in his letter that (i) the evidence does not support the conclusion that there is systemic racism in the legal professions, (ii) the claim of systemic racism vilifies lawyers and paralegals by labelling them as racist, (iii) the 13 recommendations are a form of unauthorized social engineering, (iv) racism and bullying are just part of life and should be simply be endured and overcome by racialized licensees as others have done before them, (v) the true problem is economic class not race, (vi) white privilege is a ridiculous concept as it relates to white and racialized lawyers and (vii) racialized lawyers who join legal associations based on race or ethnic origin can not complain that they are not treated equally.

This new duty would not appear to put an end to the concept of economic breach in contract law.

This obviously makes one wonder about the concept of centralization; we are generally opposed to any kind of centralization, but at the same time we don't see the centralization of hashing power as a real issue, as long as the economic incentives for miners make sense, i.e. as long as the miners» selfinterest is in accordance with that of Bitcoin.

The Bar is also not just a bar; the upper floors of its building hold presentations, usually on social and economic concepts, every day, and the Bar also has a few rooms available for rent as a living space or hotel, with a price of about $ 30 USD per day.