Sentences with phrase «on economic behavior»

Though religious principles may not have a direct effect on economic behavior, they can lend religious and ideological legitimacy to new motivations, activities, and institutions.

Not exact matches

«Freakonomics,» a 2010 film based on the book by Steven Levitt and Stephen Dubner, explores the scientific and economic concepts behind human behavior.

My dream, and I believe it is a rational possibility if not assured, is that as the ecology of our situation increases to exert pressure on us, that there will be a rapid emergent adaptation of behaviors effecting an «ecocultural» revolution in our socio - economic structures.

But as Temin and Vines show, history is much more usefully seen as the evolution of often complex institutions — financial, political, legal, cultural, and so on — through which economic behavior is mediated and which affect the ways in which recurring patterns of finance, commerce and trade unfold, and that without an understanding of history we lose so much complexity in our models that we often end up making very obvious mistakes.

A subset of small businesses is still putting growth goals on hold as they monitor consumer behavior and the economic recovery.

«If it were to go on much further and be much more persistent, then it could start to affect household and business spending behavior, and that could actually start to influence the economic outlook.»

One reason why it is so important to describe real estate behavior in terms of economic theory is that a rising proportion of the economy's industrial investors are behaving more like real estate investors than like the textbook models based on manufacturing.

A nonmoral economic system tends to create a society either of acquisitive or of collective automatons, depending on the principles relied upon to regulate economic behavior.

Nevertheless, it was on individual self - interested rationality that his economic theory was based, and the result was increasingly to liberate behavior based on this rationality from community restrictions.

Recent findings have provided direct empirical and quantitative support for economic models that acknowledge the influence of emotional factors on decision - making behavior.

A more likely source is the decline of the black family (approximately three - fifths of current black births are illegitimate) and the effect that liberal economic and social policies have had on encouraging dysfunctional social behavior and in undermining those forces within the city such as religion that have attempted to hold back the new urban barbarism.

On the contrary, he said, «To judge from the behavior and the achievements of the wealthy classes today in any quarter of the world, the outlook is very depressing» and he added: «If the economic problem is solved, mankind will be deprived of its traditional purpose... must we not expect a nervous breakdown?»

The relationship processes involved may depend on where the risk resides... in the child (e.g. developmental disability, prematurity, behavior problems), the parent (e.g. psychopathology), or the family context (e.g. economic hardship, minority status).

Siena College Research Institute has extensively polled New Yorkers on political views and economic behavior, but one of the latest surveys trends a bit mundane: asking citizens about everyday life.

The mayor has continued to press for police reform and has spoken out aggressively on issues of economic inequality, often assailing the behavior of Wall Street firms that Mr. Bloomberg vigorously defended.

«In recent years, a blend of economic, social, legal and political events have had a profoundeffect not only on the behavior and performance of professionals, but also on the public's expectations of them.

While an increase in population from 6.8 billion today to closer to 10 billion by mid-century will make sustainable living on the planet a challenge, especially since the bulk of that growth will be among those living in poverty who have a moral claim to economic development, the real problem may not be human numbers so much as human behavior.

In 2005 and 2004, the Alfred P. Sloan Foundation funded economic research on alternative corporate governance models, namely the principal / agent and team production models, and their ability to explain both the legal and economic behaviors of public companies.

The research team combined data on state - level economic well - being provided by the Gallup Poll with data on hundreds of customers of aFortune1000 international airline carrier, including their purchase behavior and perceptions of the firm collected from multiple surveys conducted over time.

Vermont Center on Behavior and Health Director Stephen Higgins, Ph.D., and colleagues, have developed an effective behavioral economic approach that offers women financial incentives for quitting.

With economist Oskar Morgenstern, Neumann published the definitive treatise on this topic in 1944, «Theory of Games and Economic Behavior.»

The researchers» findings are published in the article, «Assessing the Influence of Economic and Customer Experience Factors on Service Purchase Behaviors,» in the journal, Marketing Science.

We quantify the changing value of natural stocks by linking economic measurements of ecosystem services — the income to society depending on nature — with models of natural dynamics and human behavior.

Although these economic models have provided a strong and unifying foundation for the development of theory about decision - making, several decades of research on these topics has produced a wealth of evidence demonstrating that, in practice, these models do not provide a satisfactory description of actual human behavior.

«The fact that economic disadvantage is so often a part of the experience of minorities in the U.S. has made it difficult to estimate the relative effects of race and socioeconomic status on behaviors that impact health,» says Thorpe.

Dr. Israel's research focuses on the biological mechanisms that give rise to individual differences in personality and social behavior; and conversely, how enduring differences in personality and social behavior unfold over time to contribute to physical health and economic well - being.

Donna Spruijt - Metz, director of the mHealth Collaboratory at the USC Center for Economic and Social Research, and her team are testing an innovative approach to address obesity: devices that measure mood and eating behaviors rather than focusing on dietary intake.

«The emphasis at NSF,» the announcement says, «will be placed on integration of the cognitive sciences, social and economic sciences, and engineering in service of insights into healthy functions of brain, cognition, and behavior.»

The finding are based on 23 key indicators, such as children's economic security, health, behavior and social environment, and education.

First published by the Public School Forum of North Carolina and NC CAP in 2010, the Roadmap of Need uses data on health, youth behavior and safety, education, and economic development to take a whole child needs assessment of what young people living in each of North Carolina's 100 counties must have in order to thrive in school and in life.

The product of decades of reflection on issues of authority, inequality, and injustice, this volume analyzes fluctuating moral beliefs and behavior in political and economic affairs at different points in history, from the early Middle Ages in England to the prospects for liberalism under twentieth - century Soviet socialism.

Although Americans live in the richest country on earth, many citizens exist on the brink of poverty, and from that profound economic inequality stems self - destructive behavior.

After noting insiders» bullish behavior, Moreland writes: «While we hardly think it's «all good» on the economic front in the U.S., the price action of numerous indices have become increasingly constructive in recent weeks, despite poor earnings and economic news.

Homebuyer Behavior in Hot and Cold Markets,» Brookings Papers on Economic Activity, Fall 2012, 265 - 98.

Accordingly, the book is very wide ranging topically, covering issues from the discovery of the puzzling roots of cholera's epidemiology, to the effects of large storms on the behavior of the insurance industry, to the social disruptions arising from hurricanes and warfare, to the roots of the problems with the global economic system — and much in between.

This result would be strongly dependent on the exact dynamic response of the Greenland ice sheet to surface meltwater, which is modeled poorly in todays global models.Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.

Yes human influence on the climate is real and we might even now be able to document changes in the behavior of weather phenomena related to disasters (e.g., Emanuel 2005), but we certainly haven't yet seen it in the impact record (i.e., economic losses) of extreme events.

The issues highlighted in the document include: reconnect science and policy, catalyze rapid and transformative changes in human behavior towards the environment, develop new insights on water - land interactions, accelerate the implementation of environmentally - friendly renewable energy, integrate biodiversity across the environmental and economic agendas, manage the unintended consequences of climate change mitigation and adaptation, and develop a new approach for minimizing risks of novel technologies and chemicals.

carbon tax a levy exacted by a government on the use of carbon - containing fuels for the purpose of influencing human behavior (specifically economic behavior) to use less fossil fuels

Social Justice and Environment Preservation (achieving the Millennium Development Goals with food, water, and energy security; sustainable economic development; non-intensive agriculture; education on climate change and environment to inform and change behavior; public health; mental health; support for small - scale farmers, women and children; rights of small - island and coastal peoples; sustainable forestry; conservation; humane treatment of animals, avoiding species extinction, maintaining biodiversity).

These have been originated by ideological, political and economic interests, and amplified by the technique of inciting what can only be described as mob behavior on the Internet and over the airwaves.

For example, all estimates of government revenue and outgo depend on some sort of economic model, which superficially have the same weaknesses as climate models: validation issues, adjustable parameters, some key processes (convection, precipitation, human behavior) can't be reliably modeled.

Law firms are increasingly evaluated on «scorecards» and «rankings,» as market - like behavior continues to infiltrate the old guild - like economic structures.

Gabriel Byberg has worked with several economists in both academic and corporate settings on projects ranging from applied research in the field of renewable resource integration to the development of economic models depicting business - development behavior in service firms.

Possible economic outcomes will depend on the whales» behavior.

A brand strategist by profession, I am passionate about stocks for in my reading of them I have learnt a lot on subjects ranging from big picture investing, social behavior, competitive strengths and sustainability, temperament, management quality, socio economic risks etc..

Table 2 compares the Early Start and control groups on a series of measures of parent behavior and family circumstances, including maternal depression, substance use, family violence, economic circumstances, and adverse life events assessed over the period from 5 to 9 years.

Responsible fatherhood grantees will provide services to promote responsible parenting (e.g., counseling, mentoring, and mediation; teaching parenting skills) to foster economic stability (e.g., job training, employment services, and career - advancing education); and to promote or sustain marriage (e.g., enhancing relationship skills; education regarding how to control aggressive behavior; disseminating information on the causes of domestic violence and child abuse).

The KIDS COUNT Data Center hosts data on children at both the state and county levels for over 50 indicators, including demographics, economic well - being, education, family and community, health, and safety and risky behavior.

This finding raises the possibility that children's symptoms, particularly those of oppositional and deviant behavior, are affected by economic constraints on parents» ability to devote scarce time resources to supervision.