Sentences with phrase «on economic ideas»
It drew on the economic ideas espoused by Adam Smith in Book 1 of the Wealth of Nations and on a belief in natural law, [5] utilitarianism [6] and progress.
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The idea was to spur on the ad - sales teams when economic conditions changed dramatically.
The Financial Post published this idea on August 1: an economic union of Britain, Canada, Australia and New Zealand.
We all have a pretty good idea of the economic impact of what you see and eat on Super Bowl Sunday, but here is a look at the economic impact of what folks are wearing on their heads and backs.
The idea was originally developed in the early 1930s by the Russian - born economist Simon Kuznets, who was commissioned by the U.S. government to come up with a better way to measure economic activity — and guide an increasingly interventionist government policy — than relying on shaky indicators like the stock market and railcar loadings.
Treasury chief George Osborne delivered the hard - line position during a speech in Edinburgh this month, gambling on the idea that the majority of Scots will dismiss the romantic appeal of independence and focus on more tangible economic issues.
We weighted the categories based on how frequently each is cited in state economic development marketing materials (We figure the states have a pretty good idea of what the businesses they court are looking for).
New Profit is focused on a handful of issues — including education and economic empowerment — and is crystal clear about its mission of backing visionary leaders with big ideas.
Hilary Clinton and Marco Rubio have very different ideas on economic policy.
For months, congressional Republicans and Trump's former top economic adviser Gary Cohn — who resigned from office this week — have been trying to convince the president that imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports is a bad idea.
For months, congressional Republicans and President Donald Trump's top economic adviser have been trying to convince the president that imposing tariffs on steel and aluminum imports is a bad idea.
You may disagree with Krugman's analysis, but it's a little disingenuous to try to denigrate and dismiss Thomas Mulcair's economic ideas when they're based on Nobel prize winning work in economics (the intellectual case, that is; the factual case that this phenomenon is occurring today, in Canada, is purely a question of whether the appreciation of our currency is based on the oil and gas boom and whether a high dollar results in lower exports in other sectors, both of which you seem to have admitted are accurate.)
Canada's prime minister, Justin Trudeau, told the World Economic Forum in Davos last week that Silicon Valley looks to the University of Waterloo «as a great source of brilliant minds and brilliant ideas» in large part due to its focus on entrepreneurship and the work of Velocity, North America's largest free startup incubator.
A portion of the commentary above is an excerpt from the latest Short Seller's Journal, a weekly newsletter that provides insight on the latest economic data and provides short - sell ideas, including strategies for using options.
The group's vice president for international economic affairs, Linda Menghetti Dempsey, told a congressional subcommittee in April that such an effort would be «at once both a radical idea and, in our estimation, the most pragmatic and effective way forward» on trade with China.
The Finance Minister's Advisory Council on Economic Growth recently released its first report, concluding that its objective is to come up with ideas «that will more than double Canada's growth trajectory».
While he ran on a somewhat distasteful platform of racial, gender - based and economic divide, a few of his ideas seem popular with investors.
On Thursday, she said the idea that economic growth would cover the budgetary shortfall from the corporate and personal income tax cuts «nonsense» and «BS.»
In yet another email exchange, Parrott notes that «all the investors will get this very quickly» in response to a message from Mary Goodman, a managing director at James Caird Asset Management (and a former Senior Advisor to Treasury Secretary Tim Geithner who later served as Special Assistant to the President for Financial Markets at the National Economic Council), who stated that the Net Worth Sweep «should lay to rest permanently the idea that the outstanding privately held pref will ever get turned back on.»
Gianni joins a diverse group of esteemed resource market professionals, who will be sharing their ideas on investing and the global economic picture in general.
But Italy's fiscal arithmetic rests strongly on the idea of a good and solid economic recovery lasting for a few years.
«The tax plan is just the latest in a long line of really bad economic policies that are based on an idea of how corporations work that has nothing to do with how corporations actually work today,» Nell Abernathy, vice president of research and policy at the liberal - leaning think tank the Roosevelt Institute, told me.
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Alasdair Macleod, FinanceAndEconomics.org, gives his ideas on what may occur this year and beyond as debt grows exponentially compared economic growth.
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UBC's David Boyd takes on dinosaur - in - chief Terence Corcoran on the nexus between environment and economy, and Canada's lagging rankings: Old ideas produce heat, not light... The myth that nations must choose between economic prosperity and a healthy environment has been conclusively debunked.Countries including Sweden, Germany, Denmark and the Netherlands are similar to Canada with -LSB-...]
Matthew Schmitz has a terrific post which discusses Mike Murphy's suicide - for - the - Republican Party idea that the Republicans should abandon social conservatives and focus on hard headed economic conservatism.
Wolin has described how the liberal discontent with all forms of political authority led to a fascination with the idea that economic society could be a «self - adjusting order,» a «network of activities carried on by actors who knew no principle of authority.»
It is not the material factors of economic production, military might, and technological development, but the underlying ideas, ideals, goals, and norms which are strongly held on a mass basis that determine the course of history.
Too often we've used the technological, economic, and even military power of Christendom to push Christian ideas on people.
This «economic man», as he came to be called, could hardly be more distant from the Christian idea that human nature is based on gift — life received as a gift from God, love given freely to other men.
Instead of being left to rely on deductive theoretical formulations about the economic or political interests served by ideologies, we are offered attempts to spell out a credible set of social factors that relate the actual producers and disseminators of ideas with their social environment, with interested audiences, and with sequences of action that put ideas into effect.
Because most theologians» own training and preoccupation has focussed on the rational discrimination of ideas, the concept of the mass media as integrated power and meaning - generating systems which are actively creating a mythological and heuristic milieu to serve particular social and economic interests is foreign to most theological educators.
Premised on the idea that the basic activity of life is the inescapable pursuit of what Hobbes called the «power after power that ceaseth only in death» — Alexis de Tocqueville would later describe it as «inquietude» or «restlessness» — the endless quest for fewer obstacles to self - fulfillment and greater power to actuate the ceaseless cravings of the human soul requires ever - accelerating forms of economic growth and pervasive consumption.
In the writings on «Culture» we find Niebuhr stating his familiar convictions that faith in God entails the rejection of all ecclesiastical, political and economic absolutes, and that the idea of original sin supports the balancing and limitation of all powers.
Many environmentalists also support the idea as a way of putting lipstick on policies that could slow down economic growth.
Moreover, for nearly two decades under the leadership of Dr. Norman Kurland, an economist and lawyer, the Center for Economic and Social Justice in Washington, D.C., has advised businesses as well as governments on expanded capital ownership, based on the ideas of Louis Kelso and Mortimer Adler (the latter a Thomist philosopher) in their book The Capitalist Manifesto (1958).
He is convinced that it is precisely the lack of charity that has led us to the current economic and financial crisis: -LSB-...] When economic, social or political ideas are based on what is possible and self - determination, they undermine the true liberty of men.
This concept was based on the idea that the third - world nations could not truly develop until they achieved economic independence from the first and second worlds.
The idea of shifting to a different economic system, one that would meet human needs on a sustainable basis, is viewed as naive and utopian.
After publishing «The Party of Sam's Club»» their much acclaimed 2005 Weekly Standard cover story» the Atlantic Monthly editors Ross Douthat (a First Things contributor) and Reihan Salam began developing their ideas on how the Republican party could enact economic policies that would actually benefit their voters.
As an economic idea, socialism is now widely regarded as a mistake based on bad nineteenth - century economics.
But my point here is that unsatisfactory economic ideas and practices which have an impressive history of failure, which caused to founder that great nation California, which lie at the root of much of the shame and dread and division and hostility and cynicism with which our society is presently afflicted, are treated as immutable truths, not to be questioned, not to be interfered with, lest they unleash their terrible retribution, recoiling against whomever would lay a hand on the Ark of Market Economics, if that is the name under which this mighty power is currently invoked.
So I have steadily deepened this idea, which is meant to prompt every reader to make his own decision, on the spiritual as well as on the political or economic level.
«They are challenged with rising commodity costs and flat - to - declining traffic as consumers are choosing to eat out less frequently in tough economic times, so we work closely with our customers on new product ideas and limited time offers.»
Even though interest in breastfeeding has been on the rise, the idea that breastfeeding has an economic value and that not breastfeeding is connected with high costs for society is relatively new.
The program, which helps communities apply environmentally responsible approaches to sustainable development, is based on the idea that economic growth and conservation can go hand - in - hand, rather than being in conflict.
While the idea of a commission focused on economic security is not a bad one, families experiencing poverty shouldn't have to keep waiting when there are existing solutions that we could implement now.
He told the meeting, organised by the Centre on International Cooperation think tank, that the focus should shift from «hard» military and economic means to values and ideas, or so - called «soft» power.