Higher education as a whole has become part
of the economistic system to a degree that it never became part of the nationalist one.
Prior to Rio there were many criticisms of the effects
of economistic policies on the poor, on traditional societies, on indigenous peoples, and on the environment.
I do believe that the dominance
of economistic thinking reduces our tendency to encourage the improvement of taste and our generosity toward one another.
Not exact matches
Bottom Line 2: no, South Korea and Japan will not go to war over the Dodko islets, but despite all that
economistic thinking ought to imply, relations between the two countries really are seriously deteriorating, and in danger
of becoming worse yet.
The expansion
of production that is central to the
economistic program overall adds to the violence done to the environment.
It is not economism as such, but the particular theories that govern our
economistic world, that make us largely indifferent to the vast and ever - growing disparity in the distribution
of the world's goods.
The representatives
of these many groups had come to see that the
economistic policies adopted by almost all nations were the common enemy.
Defenders
of economism will continue to explain that all
of its failures are due to the refusal
of the nations
of the world to implement
economistic policies purely.
Beginning in the sixties there have been waves
of protest both against the transformation
of the university into an
economistic institution and against academic disciplines that are not geared to the urgent issues
of our time.
This leaves to university administration the task
of justifying the continuance
of these disciplines in
economistic terms.
Trump's detractors may well have the better
of that argument as far as
economistic thought goes.
We require an ethic that is neither reductionistic and
economistic nor idealistic and moralistic, neither the pure market economics
of Friedrich Hayek and Milton Friedman nor the utopian, inefficient, antimarket economies
of the left.
Economistic thinkers typically support this opposition, but as long as the issues are fought out within the nation, public opinion can support policies that involve some short - term economic losses for the sake
of long - term environmental gains.
In this new,
economistic order, the function
of education is to improve the stock
of human capital in the nation.
The same concern led to the establishment during the same period
of global
economistic institutions, especially the International Monetary Fund and the World Bank.
But whereas this
economistic idealism once fueled the move to this global economy, today the
economistic system is sustained chiefly by the economic and political power
of those who benefit from it.
Some
of them still have ties to Christianity that are strong enough to give more powerful leverage against the
economistic order.
The collapse
of the Asian economies which were viewed with such pride by
economistic thinkers has also undercut some
of the idealism
of economism.
Some
of us will continue to risk being labeled «
economistic» in our hopes for an effectively regulated, ecologically sustainable, global market economy.
Whatever concessions they have made to
economistic pressures, they continue to define themselves in terms
of broader human values.
But Wolfers» assumption that because the less educated have fewer resources they have no reason to get married betrays a thoroughgoing
economistic view
of the history
of marriage» and more deeply
of the human person.
Whereas for Reagan and Bush
economistic goals were the goals, for Clinton and Gore they continue to be the dominant goals but environmental health is also an important goal that may require limitations to the pursuit
of economic gain.
We have in recent years witnessed a number
of new theoretical schemes — or attempts to revive old schemes in which collective, behavioral, observable variables predominate: ecological theories,
economistic models, market metaphors, notions
of moral order and moral economy, and cybernetic and behaviorist approaches, to name a few.
Rather than preaching from on high to «those below», the great potency
of Labour as a popular party was that it shunned liberalism's
economistic, rationalist, and anti-patriotic trappings.
The treatment
of digital as a secondary market by major publishers also suggests an
economistic view
of what the new medium means for the industry.
However, it's just occurred to me that an idea I've tried to express in the
economistic terms
of opportunity cost, without convincing anybody, might be more persuasive as a trolley problem.
This is one case where, despite my
economistic prejudice in favor
of price - based measures, I think regulation is the way to go.