Sentences with phrase «of public good»

Here, the director of the orchestra has a clear vision of the public good and what that should look like.

Some decisions, such as those about long - lived infrastructure and spatial planning and of a public good nature, must take a long - term view and deal with significant uncertainties and trade - / poffs between short - and long - term goals and values.

Such policies address a pervasive market failure because, in the absence of government policy such as patent protection, the invention of new technologies and practices from R&D efforts has aspects of a public good and thus tends to be under - provided by market forces alone.

What's happening here is one small part of a larger defense of the public good in the face of limitless financialization, a battle that often seems lost.

The Pareto optimum provision of a public good in a society is at the level where the combined sum of the marginal rate of substitution between private goods and a given public good of all individuals is equal to the marginal rate of transformation.

Hannah - Jones writes that «the guiding values of public institutions, of the public good, are equality and justice.»

Feuer proposes a series of measures for countering the drift toward ideology over inquiry and ensuring that private foundations, the so - called advice industry, and the federal government protect the reliability and credibility of education research for the advancement of the public good.

Hopefully, the millions put into Florida political campaigns by teachers unions will not cause elected officials to put teacher concerns above those of the public good.

Michigan professor Marina Whitman recently noted that the essence of a public good is that it is non-excludable; i.e. all can partake, and non-rivalrous; i.e. giving one person the good does not diminish its availability to another.

«You don't kill public education without killing something that's very important to our sense of the public good, our civic responsibility.»

But he adds that he believes teachers unions and others attacking DeVos as an enemy of the public good are making a mistake.

Far from a dismissal of the public good, the vision for school choice proponents is that increased competition in the marketplace will benefit everyone.

Her backing of vouchers and for - profit education, in concert with her personal allergy to school accountability, is antithetical to the belief that oversight is important when talking about the provision of a public good.

Private schools do a lot of public good just like public schools do,» Mr. Bell said.

In February 2009, frustrated by industry restrictions on independent research into genetically modified crops, two dozen scientists representing public research institutions in 17 corn - producing states told the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) that the companies producing genetically modified (GM) seed «inhibit public scientists from pursuing their mandated role on behalf of the public good» and warned that industry influence had made independent analyses of transgenic crops impossible.

Therefore, if the full social potential of this public good is to be realized, the investment must come from government.

«For example, cooperative behaviour may be enforced by social conventions or laws and failure to comply with these may result in collapse of the public good.

Balter added, «I believe that a congressional representative is a steward of the public good and that that's a sacred responsibility for an individual to stand up on behalf of your community and your neighbors and to amplify their voices and to ensure that nobody is left behind.»

As for neoliberalism being about eliminating the concept of the public good, my impression of Tristram Hunt is that his views are the exact opposite of that.

«There are certain things in which the physical nature of a city, the fact the people are piled on top of each other, requires some notion of the public good,» he said.

While State Senator Schneiderman used to be a mere part of the problem in Albany, this decision just made him the poster child for everything that's wrong with Albany and officials who put their political ambitions ahead of the public good.

With the nation still reeling from the harm caused by underregulated markets, conservatives are using city and state budget crises to call for across - the - board privatization, entrusting unaccountable private companies with an ever greater share of the public good.

«People across the country are fed up with Republicans putting politics ahead of the public good and McConnell's unprecedented obstructionism has made his entire caucus that much more vulnerable this November,» Shripal Shah, a spokesman for Senate Majority PAC, said in a statement to Roll Call.

This elite would successfully overcome any opposition from the citizenry so as to impose its own conception of the public good.

In Europe, disclosure rules must be consistent with the European Convention on Human Rights, which gives a right to privacy, except as necessary for the protection of public good.

But if endowments are conceived solely as instruments, rather than equal partners with the state in pursuit of the public good, then the classic principle of private association in liberal democracies has been lost, for instrumentality implies that government alone is the public good's ultimate arbiter.

I am worried about Guinean society, which is built on the oppression of the insignificant by the powerful, on contempt for the poor and the weak, on the cleverness of poor stewards of the public good, on the bribery and corruption of the administration and the institutions of our republic....

Such efforts themselves smack of liberal Protestantism: they seek to put the university, or at least some scholars within it, in the service of the public good.

We all need encouragement to exercise a new vision of the public good, and to join with others in sacrificial efforts to achieve that good in concrete ways, ranging from providing housing for the homeless to parks for everyone and enriched educational environments for disadvantaged children.

She said it was «a remarkable reversal in the concept of the public good and the traditional definition of sexual morality» that the court even needed to consider whether traditional Christians were fit to be foster parents.

Many pastors from Smith's day down to our own time have questioned this conviction that the powerful incentive of self - interest is a servant of the public good.

We might also note that the moral limits for the regulation of individual behavior have over recent decades become increasingly arbitrary as the notion of the public good has become a more psychological, more subjective, and thus a more confused, notion.

By action, Arendt means a a group process, involving many men, a process which is the beginning of something new, the answer to futility, which results in the establishment or re-establishment of the public good.

But eventually the determination to throw off all authority — except God «s — won the day, resulting in a new political concept of government and of the public good: the duty of the government was to restrain the selfishness of the individual for the sake of the common good.

Bushman likens BYU's «The Glory of God Is Intelligence» to Columbia University's «For the Advancement of the Public Good and the Glory of Almighty God»; I would tend rather to distinguish the two mottos.

In this sense, religion and religious values act as social glue: informing society's understanding of the public good, providing the vocabulary of common moral discourse, and, consequently, restraining and bonding the centrifugal forces of national life.

Engraved in stone on the attic above the entrance to Columbia's Low Library built in 1895 are the words «For the Advancement of the Public Good and the Glory of Almighty God.»

This belief, Bloom claims, is a consequence of the failure of colleges and universities to cultivate among their students a sense of shared goals and a common vision of the public good.

Conceding his «second thoughts» about how virtue has been treated by his colleagues, he rejects their facile equation of the concept with complete self - sacrifice in the name of the public good.

The virtue of socialism, it is argued, is that it does away with such irresponsible authority, and forces those who make economic policy to appeal to the electorate and to justify their decisions in terms of the public good.

Supply - side, deregulatory zeal has deprived the economy of public good investments, innovative research, and the oversight necessary to prevent shampoo cycles (bubble, bust, repeat).

But formalized corporate governance is designed to be executed by boards, investors, and government on behalf of the public good, and the active efforts of all three are required.

A right to use a portion of a public good for private gain — the private gain part is a key element in the consideration and also in how a court would look at the transaction.

Though hardly extravagant by financial sector standards, this champion of the public good owned a vacation home in Belize and led a lifestyle that placed him firmly within the ranks of the 1 %.

Even people who believe fully in the crucial role that business plays in making the world a better place — and yes, that includes banks — are likely to respect you more if you admit that you've got an agenda, and that that agenda is not, and properly is not, direct pursuit of the public good.

Not exact matches

When I asked him if he still believed that mutual funds were the best investment vehicle for 90 % of the investing public, he said that — what else could the CEO of Morningstar possibly say?

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They said the company's head honchos told the public they perfected a «revolutionary technology» vetted by experts and regulators that will change the world of lab testing, knowing full well that it'll reach investors» ears.

Though she describes herself as introverted, she trained to speak in public and now does, consistently, and performed well enough in her TED talk to make it one of the most watched.

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