We pushed too hard at the limits of
what our economic system could deliver, and now the system demands a big pause to reconcile bad debts.
Not exact matches
«The
economic system (in London) is like a Jenga tower... you don't know
what will happen if you pull pieces out,» Douglas Flint, HSBC chairman, told MPs on Tuesday.
It pretty much wiped out any normalcy bias about
what to expect from our political or
economic systems.
Adds Etrit, 28, who was COO of Detroit - based smart building technology company Hepta
Systems before leaving recently to co-found Kodelabs, a software development and real estate technology start - up, with Edi: «From an
economic standpoint, immigrants only make this country better, because different minds think differently, and that's
what makes this country amazing.
For
what we've privatized already, we're going to tax the
economic rent to recover for the country
what these owners didn't create, like the phone
systems that Carlos Slim made in Mexico that Bill mentioned before.
So long as you support a healthcare
system in which people have to make
economic decisions over life and death based on
what they can afford, you are not pro-life.
What is required, according to Public health theology, is not the individual cure of conversion, but structural change in the political,
economic and social
systems that provide breeding grounds for the dehumanizing viruses.
«We clearly have a global
economic system that allows this to happen,» Eldebo said, «We need to look beyond the numbers at
what the actual consequence is for this because
what we're seeing from our work is clearly we have 3 billion people who have very little.
In the civilization of caritas,
what sort of
economic system must there be?
society, where sin is viewed as little more than psychological maladjustment, or behavior arising out of corrupt
economic structures, or as a failure of the educational
system, baptism reminds us that, in spite of Gestalt and I'm OK, You're OK,
what we do naturally is not the best we could do, that our inborn selfishness and pride are life - and - death matters, that Christians are made, not born.
What does it say though that Rush makes the frontage for his erroneous presentation of
economic systems rather than the pope who preaches charity.
What the Pope doesn't get is that the wealth created by the free enterprise far exceeds the output of any other
economic system and therefore more people thrive AND the free enterprise gives more people a chance to do well.
«
What we now call globalization — the growth of an international
economic system — is one of the most important historical developments of the last five centuries.»
One wonders
what alternative courses of action to the Civil War might have brought southern leaders to see that, although their people did not create slavery as an
economic system or raw cotton as the principal product in the regional economy, the regional modus operandi was antithetical to the spirit of the American Constitution and the democratarian trend of Western civilization.
If we accept our individual moral responsibility, if we are careful about how we use our money and how we share it, and if we make sure to extend our caring about others to our political and
economic system, then we will be able to make this a capitalist economy that does
what it ought to.
What we need to do is to compare the benefits and problems of actual, feasible
economic systems.
Who determines
what rules shall govern the society and its
economic system?
Socialism is the
economic system in which the means of production and distribution are owned by the state, which decides through central planning
what is to be produced and how it is to be distributed.
There I took an active part in work for Christian Aid and in the beginnings of
what has become the World Development Movement — for poverty requires structural change to our
economic and political
systems as well as generous giving.
The present
system treats the costs of restoring the situation to
what it was before we polluted to the
economic gains made in the process of polluting.
This is not the place to go into the complexities of
what used to be called «stratification theory,» but ever since Marx gave a prominent place to «class» in his interpretation of history, there has been general agreement to use this term to refer to a
system of ranking in which the command of
economic resources is the prevailing criterion.
When we are told that «communism and Christianity are in actual fact two competing
systems offering to reconstruct China... they are two antithetic and contrasted
systems, either of which will affect the whole political, social and spiritual life of the people,» the question at once arises:
What are the Christian correlates to the communist
economic system and social practice?
(1)
What can the churches do to teach people loyalty to humanity with a degree of intensity which places that loyalty superior to loyalty to the nation state, the national
economic system, the ethnic «in - group»?
The Nazis were an absolutist dictatorship that used a mix of socialist and capitalist
economic systems, depending on
what was convenient to them for meeting their goals at the time.
In the light of the vast
economic and technological changes that the UN has already contributed to the global
system of
what Vasak calls «solidarity,» it is now possible to classify the basic human standards into three broad categories: rights (individual) needs (collective) and uses (world law).
After we see
what the biblical foundations are, the primary matters to examine will be the Christian view of property, work and vocation, and some principles of
economic justice by which a Christian may be guided amid current conflicting
systems.
What would happen throughout the whole
economic system at home and abroad?
... Since the mass media (in America) are supported by great business concerns geared into the current social and
economic system, the media contribute to the maintenance of that
system... not only from
what is said, but more significantly from
what is not said.
And this is the thing: breastfeeding is good for us and our children; yet our
economic systems place absolutely no value on
what we do or the process of breastfeeding itself.
What is needed — besides more capital to build up the sector over time — is an integrated and strategic effort to bring all this together and show how, in total, it forms the lineaments of a radically different
system capable of delivering superior social,
economic and ecological outcomes.
«
What we're seeing now is the emergence of a new
economic system.
This describes an
economic system, not
what the OP could call himself.
But it is increasingly hard to accept that developing states such as China and Cameroon remain free to determine to
what extent they join the open
economic system, as opposed to seeking advantage from unilateral tariff concessions.
«How can we connect the canals better to the canal towns, and
what kind of programming should we have so that we attract more tourists and recreation, better quality of life, access to the waterfront,
economic development... «it's about tourism, it's about recreation, it's about irrigation for our farmers, it's about water usage for some of the manufacturing and process plants that we have along the canal
system,» Quiniones told WXXI News.
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For those looking for more nuance, detail and depth in analysing the changing position of China and Africa in the international
system, I recommend visiting the website of the Oxford University China - Africa Network, which I convene and is currently hosting a series of debates between African public intellectuals on
what Chinese investment means for local
economic conditions from Mauritania to South Africa.
DeFrancisco, 71, immediately emphasized
what he sees as the governor's vulnerabilities: several
economic development projects in upstate New York that have sputtered, chronic delays in the New York City subway
system and a corruption trial involving the 60 - year - old governor's close confidant Joe Percoco — the first of six trials this year involving state figures.
«I think
what's happened is our
economic system shows the world's changed quite significantly.
«So
what we're saying is that lasting solutions to the climate crisis that we're seeing and to the
economic crisis... lasting solutions are our only hope for building a humane
economic system because we need to close deep inequalities and we need to generate plentiful work,» Rozum said.
Others want to use Brexit to put rocket boosters under our current
economic system's insecurities and inequalities, turning Britain into a deregulated corporate tax haven with low wages, limited rights, and cut - price public services in
what would be a destructive race to the bottom.
If he really wants to replace Scotland's «existing
economic system», at some point he'll have to explain precisely
what he intends to put in its place.
«This journey has also reinforced and reminded me
what I'm most passionate about: a health care
system and a state financial and
economic system that works for everyone,» Lembo said.
What follows is a list of areas where the new government must focus its attention in order to avoid the mistakes of the past and to develop robust management
systems to ensure the country's social and
economic development.
Now the
economic downturn has slowed some of those process of the change but as long as you've got 12 million or 13 or 15 million people in South Florida ringing the Everglades then all of
what you try to do in the Everglades will be human denominated, and you won't get a natural
system back.
«Faced with this dramatic situation, many look to the
system of unemployment protection to try to determine the reasons why the percentage of the unemployed receiving no
economic assistance, those who have fallen out of the
system, has reached such alarming levels and to
what extent receiving unemployment payments might have a negative effect on the possibility of rejoining the workforce,» comments Professor Daniel Pérez del Prado, of the Work and Social Security Law area that is part of the Social and International Private Law Department of the UC3M.
In fact, the small world of biophysical economists seems to agree that energy and resource conservation is pointless in the
economic system as it is now construed, contrary to
what one might expect.
In other words,
what happens when you pluck BECCS from the idealized realm of global carbon accounting and plop it into a real place, with patchwork lands, messy politics, and interconnected ecological, physical, and
economic systems?
People built entire empires and
economic systems on their ability to exploit
what seemed to be inexhaustible riches, never realizing that the privilege would come to an end.
«Placing these results on the larger scale of socio -
economic systems makes evident to
what extent nature supports our individual and community well - being by providing ecosystem services for free,» said one of Endreny's co-authors, Professor Sergio Ulgiati of University Parthenope of Naples, Italy.
The Royal Society strongly disagrees with the assumption underlying the ACOST plans, that one of the reasons for Britain's
economic decline compared to other countries in recent years is a failure of the research council
system to deliver
what industry needs.