... in the context of the part played by the press in the political upheavals of the time The collection examines the relationship between newspapers and public opinion, and attempts to define their ... variety of approaches They examine the structure of the press; the methods used to control it by political authorities and their effectiveness; the journalistic texts themselves; andthe political role ... texts, their presentation and format, the topics they covered, the way issues were presented andthe messages, overt and implicit, that they contained Such a comprehensive approach to the comparative...
... is, they have essentially assumed the expectations hypothesis Assessing the variability as well as the level of the term premium, andthe relationship between the term premium andthe macroeconomy, ... orthodoxy Therefore, it also seems likely that the recent financial and economic crisis the Great Panic and Recession of 2008 and 2009—will both rearrange the economic landscape and affect the focus ... solved and responses given Quarters of the term premium andthe other variables of the model to economic shocks can be computed Figures and show the impulse response functions of the term premium and...
... ask the Canadians, the Dutch, the Brits, or the Danes, this is about war fighting Others see it rather as a development mission the Swedes andthe Germans believe they are doing development Others, ... Because there is no one more concerned about what the exit strategy is going to look like than the Taliban on the one hand andthe Afghan government on the other They would actually rather like ... attendees and both the introduction and collection itself have been reviewed and approved by RAND Science and Technology Afghanistan: State and Society, Great Power Politics, andthe Way Ahead...
... taxes but also by the quantity and quality of the labor force The indicators of the quantity and quality of the labor force include the change in the proportion of the population in their prime-age ... 0.01% Source: Piketty and Saez Note: The vertical axis is the share of total income The observed relationship between the top tax rates andthe income share of the top 0.1% andthe top 0.1% are displayed ... have rewritten the rules of American politicsandthe American economy in ways that have benefited the few at the expense of the many.” Jacob Hacker and Paul Pierson, WinnerTake-All Politics (New...
... countries, such as in the Netherlands andthe United Kingdom, although they generally constituted a much smaller share of the loan pool than in the United States The analysis of the effect of banking ... Netherlands, the Nordic countries, Poland andthe United Kingdom), while playing only a minor role in others (e.g Hungary, Luxembourg, Portugal and Switzerland) Across the OECD, there are two ... Increasing the estimated price-elasticity of housing supply from the level in the Netherlands to the average level in the OECD (see Figure 4.1) 1.4 percentage points… Decreasing the rent control from the...
... contribute to theeconomy in to theeconomy in proportion to their roportion to their share of the population Immigrants contribute to theeconomy in proportion to their share of the population ... the conclusion that economic growth and growth in the immigrant workforce go hand in hand The correlation coefficient relating growth in the immigrant share of the labor force and growth in the ... contribute to theeconomy in direct relation to their share of the population Theeconomy of metro areas grows in tandem with immigrant share of the labor force And, immigrants work across the occupational...
... displays the trend in the income (before taxes) share of the top 0.1% (the top solid line in the figure) andthe top 0.01% (the lower 39 CRS analysis of the data contained in the 1996 and 2006 ... taxes but also by the quantity and quality of the labor force The indicators of the quantity and quality of the labor force include the change in the proportion of the population of the population ... 0.01% Source: Piketty and Saez Note: The vertical axis is the share of total income The observed relationship between the top tax rates andthe income share of the top 0.1% andthe top 0.01% are...
... scarcer, andthe price of the product will be higher to compensate the producers for the risk of violating the law; andthe more strict the prohibition and penalties, the scarcer the product andthe ... of the hands of the bad entrepreneurs and into the hands of the good ones The fact that good entrepreneurs prosper and add to their capital, and poor ones are driven out, insures an ever smoother ... connected For the greater the taxes and disbursements, the greater the gain of the one andthe loss of the other, and vice versa “Ruling” and “ruled” apply also to the forms of government [p 16]...
... underpins and facilitates the ‘globalization’ of both the cultural andthe political This is not to argue that theeconomy is the sole driver of the cultural andthe political, but simply that the ... the bread and butter stuff of media studies, cultural studies andpolitics It is But the rise of the network society has changed these dynamics and placed the interactions of media, culture and ... difference and obliterated the realms of transcendence and immanency that constituted the fluid mechanics of the dialectic and of the possibility of the creation of other ways of being and seeing...
... place The autoworkers in turn make purchases from other business, small and large, andthe light continues to parade through the tunnel We also know that behind the walls of the tunnel there ... While these businesses obviously don’t cater directly to the global mass market, they are nonetheless integrated into the activity that occurs in the tunnel, and they are heavily impacted by the ... have not They are the people who drive trucks, fix cars, and work in department stores, supermarkets and all types of offices and factories They probably are not neurosurgeons, and they most...
... relating to the differing economic systems of the North andthe South The Northern economy was built on free labor and entrepreneurship and tended to spread opportunity more equally throughout the population ... brightest lights in the tunnel finally feel the impact and also begin to lose their light The owners of the businesses in the tunnel are seeing much of their wealth gradually drain away The tunnel has ... for so long? The answer lies in the fact that the South was primarily an export economyThe large plantations produced raw cotton which was then shipped to Europe and to the Northern states where...
... side of the glasses is open andthe other closed And, of course, the glasses could be rotated in any direction And perhaps they are touching or somehow entangled with other objects Building and programming ... recognize the sunglasses in any possible configuration and then Copyrighted Material – Paperback/Kindle available @ Amazon THE LIGHTS IN THE TUNNEL / 66 pick them up, fold them and put them back in their ... has quickly attracted the notice of the Securities and Exchange Commission and may result in newregulation As these examples show, we can expect that the rate of change andthe volatility of nearly...
... fall, demand will increase, andtheeconomy will therefore produce more goods and services In other words, the same number of workers will be employed but they will produce more.32 The question ... available @ Amazon THE LIGHTS IN THE TUNNEL / 84 sions about the people in front of her, judging things like their attire, whether they seem impatient, their importance and their preferred times ... automated economy They hold firm to the belief that theeconomy will continuously generate jobs within the capabilities of the average worker and that this process will continue indefinitely I think the...
... employment within their capabilities, then how will they acquire the income necessary to create the demand that in turn drives production? If we consider the singularity in this context, then is it ... in the stock market This predictive feature also applies to all the other various markets with which we interact, including the housing market, the job market, andthe mass market for goods and ... demand for its exports in the United States and other developed nations As we have seen, as jobs are lost in the Western countries and fear of structural unemployment there grows, consumer demand...
... distribution of incomes in the United States and then eliminate both the richest andthe poorest people Then graph the average income of the remaining “typical” people (the bulk of consumers) over ... prices for goods and services In other words, it puts more money in consumers’ pockets These consumers then go out and buy all kinds of things, and so the result is increased demand for the products ... for the United States? The answer to that depends entirely on how well the U.S can adapt to the new reality The conventional views all point to a decline in global influence and power for the...
... officials in the country These people very often act primarily for their own benefit and, in particular, in ways that preserve their positions and power—rather than for the benefit of their country ... Depression, they tend to focus almost exclusively on the monetary policy of the Federal Reserve While there is little double that the overly restrictive policies of the Fed prolonged the Depression and ... changed in the tunnel As we watch, we see that the lights continue to softly impact the panels on the walls of the tunnel as consumers purchase products and services The businesses in the tunnel...
... dark The entrepreneurs and business owners in the tunnel are responding to the rapidly increasing demand As the number of lights continues to increase, the speed with which panels are updated and ... society On the lush, garden side of the fence, are workers who have strong educations and training These people are beneficiaries of the information age On the toxic wasteland side of the fence, ... because of the high initial capital investment andthe lack of flexibility this implies There are some valid points here, and I think that these factors may, in many cases, serve to retard the process...
... a centrally planned economy, and perhaps most chillingly, the overthrow of governments and a “dictatorship of the proletariat.” In the wake of the collapse of communism, these ideas have been ... Paperback/Kindle available @ Amazon THE LIGHTS IN THE TUNNEL / 244 man judge The other participants are another person and a machine—both of whom attempt to convince the judge that they are human by conducting ... Rivoli, The Travels of a T-Shirt in the Global Economy: An Economist Examines the Markets, Power andPolitics of World Trade, John Wiley and Sons, NewYork, 2005, p 40 42 Ibid p 142 43 Jeff Rubin and...
... side of the glasses is open andthe other closed And, of course, the glasses could be rotated in any direction And perhaps they are touching or somehow entangled with other objects Building and programming ... recognize the sunglasses in any possible configuration and then Copyrighted Material – Paperback/Kindle available @ Amazon THE LIGHTS IN THE TUNNEL / 66 pick them up, fold them and put them back in their ... has quickly attracted the notice of the Securities and Exchange Commission and may result in newregulation As these examples show, we can expect that the rate of change andthe volatility of nearly...
... fall, demand will increase, andtheeconomy will therefore produce more goods and services In other words, the same number of workers will be employed but they will produce more.32 The question ... available @ Amazon THE LIGHTS IN THE TUNNEL / 84 sions about the people in front of her, judging things like their attire, whether they seem impatient, their importance and their preferred times ... automated economy They hold firm to the belief that theeconomy will continuously generate jobs within the capabilities of the average worker and that this process will continue indefinitely I think the...