Sentences with phrase «of economic system»

Our natural resources are at great peril because of an economic system that does not value standing forests and their services.

Broadly defined, a clean economy is a segment of an economic system in which supply chains are transformed to meet demand for low - carbon energy technologies.

They spoke passionately about how climate change is linked to the global issue of our economic system and local struggles with the exploitation of coal.

Beyond the waste and misallocation of taxpayer dollars, these policies enable cronyism, favoring elites and undermining the fairness of our economic system.

You know, one might get the impression that there's actually something wrong with, and embarrassing about, a key White House adviser advocating the undermining of a basic principle of our economic system.

... when it comes to the real - world consequences of those scientific findings, specifically the kind of deep changes required not just to our energy consumption but to the underlying logic of our economic system, the crowd gathered at the Marriott Hotel may be in considerably less denial than a lot of professional environmentalists, the ones who paint a picture of global warming Armageddon, then assure us that we can avert catastrophe by buying «green» products and creating clever markets in pollution.

In the process, some rather large fictions at the heart of our economic system were exposed (Need more money?

... But of course all they will achieve is the collapse of that economic system which sustains them as the enterprising individuals in it collapse, or do no more than is required....

Free fruits are protected from the power of the economic system pursuing profitability.

When large protests happened, as you have recorded, they were mainly against war; they did not imply a broader critique of the economic system «at home.»

Sometimes I wonder whether there are elements of the economic system that are hard to discern, that lead economic players down a path they want to go on in the short - run, but don't want to go on in the long - run, but that short - run choices inevitably lead to a bad long - run result.

Much of the economic system in society relies on established credit and gainful employment to obtain financial instruments such as loans.

Economists in the field of education borrow tools developed from the study of the economic system.

[17] But it is not merely a social order that some are anxious to preserve (or recover): character education is vital, according to one vocal proponent, because «the development of character is the backbone of the economic system» now in place.

The money was part of an economic system I used with the students, one that produced lots of fun but also instilled valuable lessons.

The absence of an effective planning framework and state control in a market economy causes it to become very large deviations between the occurrence of the desired standard of performance and the achievements of the economic system.

It is clear that in a capitalist mixed economy predominantly state or predominantly private, the rationality in the operation of the economic system of a country can only be achieved in formulating goals (performance standard) and correction of deviations between what was planned and what was achieved if the State act in the governance of the system as a regulator of economic activity and as a mediator between the capitalists and civil society ensuring its participation in government decisions.

Another major difference lies in the fact that in market economies not be possible to achieve rationality in the operation of the economic system of a country because the state does not exercise with effective planning and control of the economy, while in state planned economies this rationality can be performed in the formulation of objectives (performance standards) either in the correction of deviations between what was planned and what was achieved through the action of the State.

This means that there are more sugar daddies in these countries that in most other countries who do not share this type of economic system.

They point out that many people in the party understand «that the era of market worship is over», and point out the effectiveness of Vince Cable in describing the flaws of the economic system.

Appealing to the dictionary we find: «Market socialism is a type of economic system where the means of production are either publicly owned or socially owned as cooperatives and operated in a market economy.»

The real answer here is if we can indeed take the «good side» of each economic system (free market capitalism in one side and government run socialism on the other) and if the resulting arrangement can be archived and mantained.

Once we reframe the issue of reciprocity in terms of the economic system as a whole, a further point looms into view.

It is a result of the economic system of capitalism, which is not inherently good or bad.

Arthur Okun, for example, notes that an increase in equality of opportunity for all can contribute to an increase in efficiency of the economic system.

Would large sums suddenly invested in something other than consumer goods and services have potentially disastrous results for the stability of the economic system?

The newspaper reports that «a majority of every single major segment of the population is turned off by politics, the fairness of the economic system, and the role accorded the individual in society.»

No Christian writer of the New Testament, so far as our records reveal, ever faced the responsibility of applying high moral principles to preserving the institutions of society, administering governments, handling international relationships, prosecuting social reforms, or even mitigating by public measures the inequities of an economic system.1

Most needed, given an analysis of this kind, is moral tutelage that encourages people to be less greedy (or to reassert traditional gender roles), not radical reform of the economic system itself.

To understand why, we must turn our attention to people's understandings of the economic system itself.

Social movements, networks of associations and analysts are given a voice to show the evolution of the economic system, the potential for action and the strategies of social forces and to formulate proposals and alternatives to the dominant system, supported by these movements.

Others, on the other hand, find in it the means of constructing the steps towards fundamental transformation of the economic system and its political expressions.

The critics have reminded the church of its part in the development of that economic system which, whatever its virtues, has revealed its vices so clearly to our times that none can take pride in having assisted it to success, in however innocent a role.

Equally alarming, it is virtually impossible for a member of Congress or an ordinary citizen to obtain even a modest handle on the actual size of military spending or its impact on the structure and functioning of our economic system.

The paper was also of the opinion that «the step from the Roosevelt system to a true and candid socialization of the economic system would be a much easier one to take than is generally realized» (January 17, 1934).

Greider has collected a series of stories of people and organizations that have begun to reform and humanize parts of our economic system.

Workingmen were utterly at the mercy of an economic system that paid pitifully low wages and offered absolutely no security.

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 challenge presents itself in the form of three dangers: (1) the danger of a growing disparity between economic classes; (2) the danger of materialism, of the rewards of the economic system becoming the goals and values of society; and (3) the danger of a selfish pseudo-individualism that evades individual moral responsibility.

How can Mr. Varney report the news with any credibility when he can not differentiate criticism of some aspects of an economic system with criticism of «a specific political system?»

Simply recognizing that Capitalism offers great opportunity for abuse of the poor is not a complete rebuke of that economic system.

From the point of view of the advertisers, television is the keystone of our economic system.

It is important to note the political basis of an economic system as one of our basic dichotomies because there is a very real difference in the foundation of a capitalism in which the rules governing the system are determined by a few — rules concerning wages, monopolies, taxation, use of natural resources, government benefits, etc. — and one in which these rules are determined by representatives who are chosen by the general populace.

The role of any economic system is to meet the two challenges of production and distribution.

In the course of a very successful ministry — informed by piety (he wrote wonderful prayers), pastoral experience (he cared for his flock) and learning (he regularly wrote reviews and articles for journals)-- he became increasingly critical of the economic system of the late 19th century.

With a number of fellow pastors who became lifelong friends, Rauschenbusch studied, read, talked, debated and plumbed the new social theories of the day, especially those of the non-Marxist socialists whom John C. Cort has recently traced in Christian Socialism (Orbis, 1988) The pastors wove these theories together with biblical themes to form» «Christian Sociology,» a hermeneutic of social history that allowed them to see the power of God's kingdom being actualized through the democratization of the economic system (see James T. Johnson, editor, The Bible in American Law, Politics and Rhetoric [Scholars Press, 1985]-RRB- They pledged themselves to new efforts to make the spirit of Christianity the core of social renewal at a time when agricultural - village life was breaking down and urban - cosmopolitan patterns were not yet fully formed.

There is, of course, a significant difference between the life of the Church and the structure of our economic system.

The road to such a society is the creation of an economic system in which «every working person would be an active and responsible participant, where work would be attractive and meaningful,» where every worker would participate in management and decision - making.

In the civilization of caritas, what sort of economic system must there be?

But it never affects the roots of injustice — social structures, the bases of an economic system, the foundations of a society.