Sentences with phrase «other economic models»

Possible problems with democracy that come to my mind are from the Public Choice literature and other economic models of voters and politicians.

Not exact matches

If India can modernize and become an economic powerhouse by adapting to technology, other countries could use it a model to follow.

For almost 20 years, one of the poorest nations in Europe had lived an economic fairy tale, becoming the «Celtic Tiger» after which so many other envious nations hoped to model themselves.

Accordingly, the rejection of labor contracts «has not been the mechanism of last resort to save a failing business,» the Air Line Pilots Association told Congress in 2010, «but instead has often been used by employers as a business model to gain long - term economic advantage by unfairly gutting the wages and working conditions of airline and other employees.»

Overall, concluded political scientist Yun - han Chu, who studied Asian Barometer surveys about East Asians» commitment to democracy, «authoritarianism remains a fierce competitor of democracy in East Asia,» in no small part because of the influence of China's ability to foster economic success without real political change, providing an alternative model that is clearly visible to other East Asians, who travel to China, work with Chinese companies, buy Chinese products, and host Chinese officials.

We have modeled only the impacts of implicit profits and wages, not any other economic aspect of the increased activity.

His biography contains elements of an epic novel: growing up the son of a jailed Trotskyist labor leader in whose Chicago home he met Rosa Luxembourg's and Karl Liebknecht's colleagues; serving as a young balance of payments analyst for David Rockefeller whose Chase Manhattan Bank was calculating how much interest the bank could extract on loans to South American countries; touring America on Vatican - sponsored economics lectures; turning after a riot at a UN Third World debt meeting in Mexico to the study of ancient debt cancellation practices through Harvard's Babylonian Archeology department; authoring many books about finance from Super Imperialism: The Economic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of MesoEconomic Strategy of American Empire [1972] to J is For Junk Economics: A Guide to Reality in an Age of Deception [2017]; and lately, among many other ventures, commuting from his Queens home to lecture at Peking University in Beijing where he hopes to convince the Chinese to avoid the debt - fuelled economic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesoeconomic model off which Western big bankers feast and apply lessons he and his colleagues have learned about the debt relief practices of the ancient civilizations of Mesopotamia.

Canada's image on the world stage has grown considerably in recent years and our actions in specific aspects of economic policy are considered by many non-Canadians to be a role model for other nations.

Tracking these and other unit economic variables is critically important since otherwise the business and investor do not know whether their model is scalable.

Among other pro-regulation groups, the Consumer Federation of America and the Center for Economic Justice proposed adding «prohibited practices» to the NAIC model law.

Quantitative investing assumes that future performance of a security relative to other securities may be predicted based on historical economic and financial factors, however, any errors in a model used might not be detected until the fund has sustained a loss or reduced performance related to such errors.

With such a model, we would be able to incorporate financial stability threats into our reaction function, if not with absolute precision, then at least as well as we incorporate other economic variables.

The emperor became the patron par excellence (as we can see in the earlier quotation from Nicolaus of Damascus) and the model for (and patron of) the local benefactors outside Rome, who were in turn patrons of others lower down the socio - economic scale (he was, however, the only euergetes of Rome itself — no one else was allowed to make benefactions in that city).

However, the model has not been changed, and most economic practice continues to follow from the model rather than from the concerns of others about the environment.

But for my purposes it is enough to say that the assumptions I have listed have many practical consequences when governments adopt policies oriented to economic growth on the basis of advice from neoliberal economists, or, indeed, many other economists who share this model.

In the dominant economic model, the wellbeing of the individual is not affected by the wellbeing of others.

The main reason that the present economic order is incompatible with the ecological model, or any other genuinely pluralistic one, is that it is based on homogenization.

There he says, one, that the shift from the concept of «the State's role as providers of equal opportunities to every citizen» to that of providing education, health and other social services «to those who can afford to pay» is a U-turn in public policy which «has been made surreptitiously by administrative action without public discussion and legislative sanction»; two, that the total commercialization of social sectors is «alien even to free market societies»; and three, that «the ready acceptance of self - financing concept in social sectors alien even to free - market societies is the end result of gradual disenchantment with the Kerala Model of Development», which has been emphasizing the social dimension rather than the economic, but that it is quite false to present the situation as calling for a choice between social development and economic growth.

It presents the Kerala model as something from which the Union Government and other Indian states like UP and Bihar have to learn their lesson that without a basis in social development like literacy, health and women's education and social security there can be no participatory economic expansion which is necessary if economic growth has to serve society.

Social development has already made a contribution to the economic development of the state and he has a long quotation from his earlier writing to affirm that it is possible to develop a Kerala Model of Economic Growth on the foundation of its Model of Social Development by a new State strategy of «transforming its expenditure on education and health from merely a social welfare expenditure into an investment in human capital», and that in fact any other path of economic growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resourceseconomic development of the state and he has a long quotation from his earlier writing to affirm that it is possible to develop a Kerala Model of Economic Growth on the foundation of its Model of Social Development by a new State strategy of «transforming its expenditure on education and health from merely a social welfare expenditure into an investment in human capital», and that in fact any other path of economic growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resourcesEconomic Growth on the foundation of its Model of Social Development by a new State strategy of «transforming its expenditure on education and health from merely a social welfare expenditure into an investment in human capital», and that in fact any other path of economic growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resourceseconomic growth is full of risks for Kerala which has only «limited raw material and fuel resources».

Looking primarily to models based on quantitative research methodologies to provide a clear direction for policy in regulating media and violence can also distract policy makers from coming to grips with other difficult but more important value questions that impinge on the issue of media and violence, such as the purpose of broadcasting, issues of ownership and control of media, the international context of Australian media, the dominant economic nature of most of Australia's social communications, the distinctive ways in which the media reproduce and reconstruct myths and symbols of violence from within the culture, and how audiences use and respond to media myths and symbols.

Again, that is an exaggerated description of both sides» economic models, but it is a debate that is certainly being written about and considered by other governments as they think about modes of development.

A republican model of economic governance sees the company as a self - governing association of members that incorporates owners, employees, users, and other agents that have an interest in the company's success.

But in the current climate adaptation is key, and politicians have yet to acknowledge the need to reform and / or to accept being overtaken by other socio - economic models more in tune with reality.

Evidence supporting minimum pricing is mixed, based solely on economic modelling and experiences in other countries with different drinking cultures.

The effort to export the «nano business model» to other parts of New York represents Cuomo's continued remaking of economic development policy which, for the past 30 years, has mostly involved scattershot subsidies to companies.

He's been a key player in designing the state's Buffalo Billion and other economic development projects and is credited with inventing the opaque nonprofit management model that is now under scrutiny by U.S. Attorney Preet Bharara.

Other sections of the book show the archbishop raising questions about the capitalist economic model.

«Indeed, other nations, who began their lives as independent states at the same time as we did, like Singapore, Malaysia and Korea, have emulated a similar model, and have also achieved great economic success.

Just this morning, supporters of the bill released a counter analysis of the city's living wage study, which argued its modeling did not rule out other factors that could affect job growth (like an economic downturn).

Rather, it wants to use the economic model in Buffalo, Rochester, Syracuse and Utica to foster sectors considered inherent strengths in each region, although nanotech will be a focus in some other locations upstate.

Then they constructed a model of which companies controlled others through shareholding networks, coupled with each company's operating revenues, to map the structure of economic power.

The problem was resolved when Silva - Chávez and others pointed to economic modeling which suggested that stopping deforestation beyond that point would be particularly expensive.

Other examples include the development of agent - based models, such as the minority game and asset exchange models, as well as the analysis of economic networks, which is influenced by physicists» analyses of large complex networks.

The researchers focused their global simulations on the U. S. and modeled the country's evolving economic activities in different geographic regions to determine the water requirements for five main sectors: thermoelectric cooling; public supply, such as for drinking water and other public utilities; industrial demand; mining; and irrigation.

According to his economic modeling, the rough cost of capture will be $ 35 per ton of CO2, a figure that is at least half the cost of other capture methods, such as amine scrubbing.

A new integrated climate model developed by Oak Ridge National Laboratory and other institutions is designed to reduce uncertainties in future climate predictions as it bridges Earth systems with energy and economic models and large - scale human impact data.

These tests can be conducted with the help of computer models that depict future demographic and economic development and that examine the interplay between industry and the climate and other essential natural systems.

The new numbers will be used in models created by economists, environmentalists, and governments who use population estimates to predict pollution and global warming levels; prepare for epidemics; determine road, school, and other infrastructure requirements; and forecast worldwide economic trends.

Such offices shall engage in cooperative research, development, and demonstration projects with the academic community, State Climate Offices, Regional Climate Offices, and other users and stakeholders on climate products, technologies, models, and other tools to improve understanding and forecasting of regional and local climate variability and change and the effects on economic activities, natural resources, and water availability, and other effects on communities, to facilitate development of regional and local adaptation plans to respond to climate variability and change, and any other needed research identified by the Under Secretary or the Advisory Committee.

More specifically, researchers led by the University of Idaho's Tara Hudiburg merged the DayCent ecological model with another, BEPAM, originally designed to study environmental and economic impacts of proposed biofuel policies, forming a combined model that simultaneously accounts for market forces, land use, transportation costs, and a variety of other factors.

Abstract: The purpose of this article is to propose the development of a didactic model of sustainable society, substantially different from the current paradigm characterized both by the exponential growth of economic and population indicators that lead to the destruction of the environment, and the ideological manipulation by political and religious sectors favoring the dominance of some people over others and confrontation between humans.

A Discovery phase includes interviews with thought leaders in the space, development of case studies from other sectors, framing of potential organizational models, and conducting an economic impact analysis.

Rocketship and the other school models we describe here offer a vision for what deeply integrated technology can mean for children's education, for the way schools are structured, and for the promise of greater efficiency amid a lengthy economic downturn.

Gordon Lafer, in an in - depth report this year for the Economic Policy Institute (EPI), notes that Rocketship's educational model rests on four strategies: «the replacement of teachers with computers for a significant portion of the day; a reliance on young and inexperienced teachers for the rest of the day; narrowing the curriculum to math and reading with little attention to other subjects; and even within these subjects, a relentless focus on preparing students for standardized tests.»

Can any statistical model really sift through all the other factors that may have influenced the student's score (for example, socio - economic status or early learning environment) and isolate the learning that we can specifically attribute to the teacher's methods?

The first - of - its - kind study in Milwaukee used data from other academic studies showing higher graduation rates and lower criminality rates associated with the MPCP and ran economic modeling on that data to arrive at their conclusion.

While no assessment system is without limitations, Tennessee's value - added assessment model stands head and shoulders above others with regard to its focus on the effectiveness of schools, its ability to remove the biasing effects of social and economic influences, and its usefulness in answering critical questions about student progress and educational quality.

Other models offer research - based curriculum, professional development and instructional practices that may work for a much larger range of children, from many socio - economic backgrounds and many different levels of performance.

In areas of environmental, social and economic performance, the three fundamentals of ASGʼs data - driven automotive life - cycle assessment platform - the Automotive Performance Index (API)- the Transit Connect outperformed 38 other Minivans, earning the distinction as an ASG best in class selection for model year 2016.