Sentences with phrase «of economic elites»

«While many of the economic elites on the North Shore have been celebrating the development that's happening here, calling it the «North Shore renaissance,» on the streets, people are grieving,» Marius said.

John P. McCormick: I think that a lack of the kind of class consciousness that was characteristic of the ancient Roman and medieval Florentine republics — in particular, the lack of a thorough - going distrust and resentment of the political influence of economic elites within modern republics — is the single greatest barrier to a revival of Machiavellian democratic republicanism today.

If this is what theology is coming to affirm — that God is working providentially through American foreign policy to advance an ultimate divine plan that is consonant with the interests of an economic elite — then this is a God who might need to be ushered off the stage.

Bernie Sanders is scaring the crap right out of the economic elite.

The supposedly populist candidate — who won re-election promising to tax the rich, protect Social Security, and make the economy fair — has morphed back into an invaluable ally of the economic elite.

The major education reforms of the past 35 years — education vouchers, charter schools, tuition tax credits, and education savings accounts — all seek to remove public schools from the control of elected bodies; to subject them to the «laws» of the «market»; and to put them at the service of the economic elite.

Between the evangelicals and ruralists, the government is now in the service of the economic elite and is actively engaged in the erosion of labour rights and social security in favour of supposed economic growth that will only benefit the wealthiest.

The World Wildlife Fund pays its US and Canadian CEOs so handsomely they are part of the economic elite — the top 1 % of income earners.

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Of course, it's a classic bit of political opportunism, and gives the PM a well - timed «I'm a man of the people» story to tell: instead of hobnobbing with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos or decamping to Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane CanucOf course, it's a classic bit of political opportunism, and gives the PM a well - timed «I'm a man of the people» story to tell: instead of hobnobbing with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos or decamping to Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane Canucof political opportunism, and gives the PM a well - timed «I'm a man of the people» story to tell: instead of hobnobbing with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos or decamping to Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane Canucof the people» story to tell: instead of hobnobbing with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos or decamping to Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane Canucof hobnobbing with the elite at the World Economic Forum in Davos or decamping to Washington for the inauguration of Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane Canucof Donald Trump, he's chatting with Jacques and Jane Canuck.

As economic tensions between Silicon Valley elites and the rest of society increase — affordable housing in California among the flash points — the approach to contract workers may need to change.

Where economic elites in previous centuries may have used social Darwinism and even religion to explain away economic inequality, from the 1950s on economic elites have intentionally and strategically spread the gospel of Economics 101 throughout American political and popular culture in a similar way.

That includes Attorney General candidate Jeff Sessions, who argues that legal immigration primarily benefits economic elites at the expense of workers, but has also made racist statements.

Perhaps the media moguls in charge of newsrooms across the continent are feeling the sway of this uncomfortable squirming from the economic elites.

Since Trump had fulminated against bankers and promised restrictive trade policies on the campaign trail, the appointment of Cohn, a consummate insider, was viewed as a major concession to the economic and business elite.

The elites of Latin America have not proven immune to the economic situation.

Mr Rittenberg, Mao's former interpreter, says that promoting a single popular figure may have been a deliberate strategy of the party elite, in the hope that such a politician could more effectively carry out the difficult economic and social reforms which Mr Xi says are needed.

Much like the crony capitalist elite dining in Davos, the fine purveyors of bogus economic theory inhabiting the halls of the Marriner Eccles building are probably a tad bit concerned with the recent rise in rates.

The job of fixing financial markets is by no means over, and what does or does not happen over the next two years will be crucial, Bank of Canada Governor Mark Carney said at the World Economic Forum annual gathering of the world's financial elite in Davos, Switzerland.

While the elites are worrying about economic crises and indifferent to the plight of the people, the news of the coming «Savior» is given directly to the lowest of the low in the social pecking order, the shepherds.

As the gap between the rich and the rest of the population grows, economic policy increasingly caters to the interests of the elite, while public services for the population at large - above all, public education - are starved of resources.

Repentance was far from the minds of U.S. military planners and economic elites in the post-Vietnam period.

Colonial structures of land tenure and exploitation of natural resources were carried over, with the elite accumulating economic and political fortunes at the expense of the impoverished masses.

These Western economic interests established symbiotic relationships with the ruling elites of the poor nations.

The elite domination, continuing misery of the poor, rise of religious fundamentalism, impact of new economic policies, ecological crisis, and so on.

On the one side is elite capitalism, in which a few families or individuals own a large percentage of the wealth, there is a consequent absence of a large middle class, and control of the economic system is by the elite.

This is despite the sophistication of the Communist Party, says Pei, in effective economic patronage in building a supportive wealthy and influential social elites through cooptation.

When this happens the poor will be further victimized and U.S. economic elites can be expected to use racism and ideological campaigns blaming the victim to take attention away from their own role in managing a crisis in defense of their own interests.

The hierarchy of power remained the U.S. embassy at the pinnacle, the Salvadoran military and economic elites a little below, and the civilian government looking good in U.S. papers but nearly powerless in practice.

But the true scandal, as Caldwell shows, is that political elites» ideology of deregulation — moral and economic, liberal and conservative — is responsible for creating, disguising, and prolonging the carnage.

His endorsement of the social status quo and the dominant power structure endeared him to the nation «s political and economic elites.

Although the New Deal Democracy is often seen as an economic coalition of the «have - nots» against the economic elite, FDR's alignment was also a classic example of ethnocultural politics, an alliance of southern evangelical Protestants, northern Catholics and Jews, black Protestants, and the small secular population.

To quote Paul Brass in his essay on ethnicity and nationalism, «The cultural and religious forms, values and practices of South Asian countries have become political resources of the elite in competition for political power and economic advantages.»

In the New Economic Policy, only 10 % of the elites are the real beneficiaries.

At the same time, however, the politico - economic elites within the military - industrial complexes of the super, imperialistic, and hegemonic powers must confess their sin of destroying the pond, the Korean peninsula, of destroying a beautiful and integral part of God's creation for their own political and economic ends.

His critique of the nanny state made him useless to the liberal left; his jeremiads on consumer capitalism alienated the economic right; and his tirades against «elites» made him persona non grata to much of the knowledge class.

Mass - mediated culture primarily serves the interests of the relatively small political - economic power elite that sits atop the social pyramid.

Global capitalism is seeking to convert all those who aren't computer scientists or physicians into low - or no - pay serfs serving the economic elites without any hope of having a life of their own.

Rhodes sought to channel the enthusiasm of Britain's nascent democracy towards a powerful assertion of national superiority, in order to distract the masses from their own exploitation, derail plans to redress economic inequality through social welfare reform, and legitimise an economic agenda pursuing the interests of a small financial elite.

The main source of Orbán's conflict with Western elites is rather economic in nature.

The ideas it promoted — that banks and a wealthy elite have benefited from the current economic system at the expense of the rest of us — have infiltrated the mainstream, with the concept of the 99 % resonating profoundly with people across the country.

Favouring the people always entails punitive policies directed at elites who too readily convert their socio - economic advantages into political oppressions; policies ranging from publically conducted, popularly judged criminal trials to the violent, wholesale elimination of the nobility.

Property, as it has been under the neo-liberal governance, can be transformed into a resource for the exercise of domination by economic and political elites.

The recent discussion in the UK about Scotland would very much suggest that British political elites view it as a matter of getting the economic appeals right.

Foley points out that the information age and the emergence of a younger, educated elite are factors that have forced substantial developments in the GCC countries (Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates) and have resulted in political and economic reforms.

In doing so, it «scientifises» politically controversial opinions on the economic crisis and praises the rise of a competent European elite.

Complaints about the loss of EMA, rising tuition fees, austerity measures, and police discrimination gain added valence from the rioters» subconscious coded articulations of their own (growing) alienation from a continually victorious political - economic - social elite.

Desire for sovereignty and independence, responses to austerity and economic inequality and hostility to the elites in London and the South East have all figured in the torrent of post-Brexit analysis.

Of course, most narratives of Trump's rise have emphasized just the opposite: widespread distrust of elites, the sheer number of Republicans vying for the nomination, a weak economic recovery, and the media's fixation on outrageous and «shareable» stories play a part in almost any thinkpiece on his candidacOf course, most narratives of Trump's rise have emphasized just the opposite: widespread distrust of elites, the sheer number of Republicans vying for the nomination, a weak economic recovery, and the media's fixation on outrageous and «shareable» stories play a part in almost any thinkpiece on his candidacof Trump's rise have emphasized just the opposite: widespread distrust of elites, the sheer number of Republicans vying for the nomination, a weak economic recovery, and the media's fixation on outrageous and «shareable» stories play a part in almost any thinkpiece on his candidacof elites, the sheer number of Republicans vying for the nomination, a weak economic recovery, and the media's fixation on outrageous and «shareable» stories play a part in almost any thinkpiece on his candidacof Republicans vying for the nomination, a weak economic recovery, and the media's fixation on outrageous and «shareable» stories play a part in almost any thinkpiece on his candidacy.

Accepting this slogan risks failing to learn from a rich republican tradition, whose insights are relevant to many of the social and economic problems being encountered today, not simply the emergence of a super-wealthy economic elite.

Ed Miliband's critique of Britain's over-financialised and rentier - centric form of capitalism was intellectually far more consistent with the views of economic policy elites than anything the Blairite camp has come up with.