1. The document discusses how the global economy is evolving with tendencies towards global policies and integration. It outlines three major factors driving this: economies within political unions and large industries growing within shared markets, standardized global economic and financial systems, and rational utilization of resources through cooperation in knowledge, technology, and industries.
2. Standards are being integrated globally and widely promoted, shaping consumer culture and critical thinking towards quality. Microsoft is used as an example of a standardized business plan approach.
3. The efficient flow of resources, knowledge, technology, and industry requires joint contributions beyond separate financial means. The EU is providing models like programs for shared funding of projects across members.
Globalization has led to the rise of civic society in developing countries as a counterbalance to unregulated markets. Civil societies now propose interventions to ease the negative impacts of globalization. However, most NGOs in developing countries lack proper legal frameworks and funding sources, limiting their effectiveness. The author analyzes the cases of Mexico and Romania to understand how to establish legal frameworks and global philanthropic standards that support civil society organizations and enable them to act as a balance to state power during periods of economic globalization.
This document provides an overview of political economy and its application to media studies. It defines political economy as examining how ownership of economic resources affects society. It discusses three key aspects of political economy as they relate to media: centralized economic ownership has political consequences; media ownership is more important than content; and the working class is exploited. The document also outlines three assumptions of applying critical political economic theory to media and what this perspective reveals about media systems and audience commodification.
how governments aim for their strategic goals. There is a need to take into account the type of economic system, structure of government and nature of the civil society
This document provides an overview of key concepts in political economy and media studies, as discussed in an introductory media studies course. It covers Marx's critique of capitalism and ideas of base and superstructure. It also discusses the Frankfurt School's view of mass culture and the concept of the culture industry. Other topics summarized include commodification, spatialization, structuration, media ownership and concentration, Hollywood integration, neoliberalism, privatization, and deregulation. Students are prompted to discuss and apply these concepts, such as by giving examples of commodified aspects of society or potential threats to democracy from media concentration.
This document discusses neuroeconomics and the need for a new economic culture and civilization. It argues that the current economic model focuses on unlimited growth and profit at the expense of environmental sustainability. A global initiative is needed to establish international consensus and cooperation on revising economic variables to prioritize environmental equilibrium and human well-being over unchecked consumerism.
This document discusses political economy and its application to media. Political economy examines how ownership of economic resources affects society. It looks at how centralized economic ownership has political consequences and how media ownership is more influential than media content. The key points are:
1) News and entertainment media are largely centrally controlled through consolidated ownership.
2) This centralized ownership limits choice and reinforces itself through consumer purchases.
3) While political economy highlights economic oppression, it sometimes ignores other forms of oppression like sexism and racism.
Political economy analyzes the relationships between economics, culture, society, and government and how changes in one area affect the others. Originally focused on production, trade, and their connection to law and customs, it expanded to consider labor as the true source of value rather than land. Marx's base-superstructure theory holds that the economic base determines the superstructure of legal and political institutions and cultural ideas. Music, like all cultural products, is shaped by economic forces and has evolved from ritual music to today's commercial industry.
This document discusses the history and evolution of political economy. It begins by tracing the origins of political economy back to 1615 in France. It then describes how political economy has changed from being synonymous with economics to examining how political forces shape economic policy choices. The document goes on to discuss several aspects of the political economy of the internet, including its commodification, the role of large companies like Microsoft, issues around privacy, security and censorship, and how the internet has influenced various aspects of modern life.
Globalization has led to the rise of civic society in developing countries as a counterbalance to unregulated markets. Civil societies now propose interventions to ease the negative impacts of globalization. However, most NGOs in developing countries lack proper legal frameworks and funding sources, limiting their effectiveness. The author analyzes the cases of Mexico and Romania to understand how to establish legal frameworks and global philanthropic standards that support civil society organizations and enable them to act as a balance to state power during periods of economic globalization.
This document provides an overview of political economy and its application to media studies. It defines political economy as examining how ownership of economic resources affects society. It discusses three key aspects of political economy as they relate to media: centralized economic ownership has political consequences; media ownership is more important than content; and the working class is exploited. The document also outlines three assumptions of applying critical political economic theory to media and what this perspective reveals about media systems and audience commodification.
how governments aim for their strategic goals. There is a need to take into account the type of economic system, structure of government and nature of the civil society
This document provides an overview of key concepts in political economy and media studies, as discussed in an introductory media studies course. It covers Marx's critique of capitalism and ideas of base and superstructure. It also discusses the Frankfurt School's view of mass culture and the concept of the culture industry. Other topics summarized include commodification, spatialization, structuration, media ownership and concentration, Hollywood integration, neoliberalism, privatization, and deregulation. Students are prompted to discuss and apply these concepts, such as by giving examples of commodified aspects of society or potential threats to democracy from media concentration.
This document discusses neuroeconomics and the need for a new economic culture and civilization. It argues that the current economic model focuses on unlimited growth and profit at the expense of environmental sustainability. A global initiative is needed to establish international consensus and cooperation on revising economic variables to prioritize environmental equilibrium and human well-being over unchecked consumerism.
This document discusses political economy and its application to media. Political economy examines how ownership of economic resources affects society. It looks at how centralized economic ownership has political consequences and how media ownership is more influential than media content. The key points are:
1) News and entertainment media are largely centrally controlled through consolidated ownership.
2) This centralized ownership limits choice and reinforces itself through consumer purchases.
3) While political economy highlights economic oppression, it sometimes ignores other forms of oppression like sexism and racism.
Political economy analyzes the relationships between economics, culture, society, and government and how changes in one area affect the others. Originally focused on production, trade, and their connection to law and customs, it expanded to consider labor as the true source of value rather than land. Marx's base-superstructure theory holds that the economic base determines the superstructure of legal and political institutions and cultural ideas. Music, like all cultural products, is shaped by economic forces and has evolved from ritual music to today's commercial industry.
This document discusses the history and evolution of political economy. It begins by tracing the origins of political economy back to 1615 in France. It then describes how political economy has changed from being synonymous with economics to examining how political forces shape economic policy choices. The document goes on to discuss several aspects of the political economy of the internet, including its commodification, the role of large companies like Microsoft, issues around privacy, security and censorship, and how the internet has influenced various aspects of modern life.
Romania appreciates the economic benefits of increased globalization and foreign direct investment, but recognizes that without proper regulation globalization will not benefit all. Romania believes globalization must promote democratic values, human rights, labor standards, and environmental protection to effectively serve the global community. As an EU member, Romania supports multilateral cooperation to guide globalization towards benefiting all people.
Capitalism and socialism differ in their views on the role of government and economic equality. Socialists believe the government should reduce inequality through programs that benefit the poor, while capitalists argue the free market is more efficient. Schumpeter theorized that advanced capitalism would lead to the election of socialist governments and restrictions on entrepreneurship, eventually replacing capitalism with socialism through democratic means rather than revolution. Intellectuals would play a role in criticizing capitalism and supporting socialism. However, Schumpeter did not foresee the failure of socialism in Eastern Europe or technology fostering innovation in Western societies.
[MOST SOLD]Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do ...gaxevepe
From one of Washington's most influential voices on economic policy, a lively and original argument that reducing inequality is not just fair but also key to delivering broadly shared economic growth and stability.Do we have to choose between equality and prosperity? Many think that reducing economic inequality would require such heavy-handed interference with market forces that it would stifle economic growth. Heather Boushey, one of Washington's most influential economic voices, insists nothing could be further from the truth. Presenting cutting-edge economics with journalistic verve, she shows how rising inequality has become a drag on growth and an impediment to a competitive US marketplace for employers and employees alike.Boushey argues that inequality undermines growth in three ways. It obstructs the supply of talent, ideas, and capital as wealthy families monopolize the best educational, social, and economic opportunities. It also subverts private competition and public investment. Powerful corporations muscle competitors out of business, in the process costing consumers, suppressing wages, and hobbling innovation, while governments underfund key public goods that make the American Dream possible, from schools to transportation infrastructure to information and communication technology networks. Finally, it distorts consumer demand as stagnant wages and meager workplace benefits rob ordinary people of buying power and pushes the economy toward financial instability.Boushey makes this case with a clear, accessible tour of the best of contemporary economic research, while also injecting a passion for her subject gained through years of research into the economics of work-life conflict and policy work in the trenches of federal government. Unbound exposes deep problems in the US economy, but its conclusion is optimistic. We can preserve the best of our nation's economic and political traditions, and improve on them, by pursuing policies that reduce inequality--and by doing so, boost broadly shared economic growth.
social enterprise a new model for poverty reduction and employment generationBoni
This document examines social enterprises as a model for poverty reduction and employment generation in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. It provides an overview of the emergence and evolution of social enterprises, and analyzes their role and legal status in Poland, Serbia, and Ukraine. The document aims to stimulate debate on how social enterprises can improve lives and support human development, particularly for disadvantaged groups. It is the result of collaboration between the UNDP and EMES European Research Network over two years.
Capitalism is an economic system defined by private ownership of property and business for profit. It features free markets, competition, and limited government intervention. Benefits include efficient resource use and economic growth, while drawbacks include inequality and instability. Socialism is a system where the state owns and controls production and economic planning. It aims for equality and welfare, but can lack incentives, individual freedom, and efficiency compared to capitalism. Both systems have merits and demerits when considering economic outcomes and social impacts.
Social media and transnational capitalismDavid Kreps
This document summarizes key concepts from a paper about social media and transnational capitalism. It discusses how venture capital funds social media platforms and how they operate as businesses that commodify human relationships and user data for advertising. It draws on Gramsci's concept of hegemony and Gill's idea of a transnational historic bloc dominated by transnational capital. Social media platforms form their own type of dominant bloc that maintains influence through commercialization and monetizing users.
The document discusses different economic systems such as capitalism, socialism, and mixed economies. It provides definitions and characteristics of each system. Capitalism involves private ownership and operation for profit, while socialism involves social ownership and cooperative management. A mixed economy combines aspects of both systems. The document then compares capitalism and socialism, noting differences in ownership, incentives, equality, and employment. It outlines benefits of capitalism like efficient allocation and production but also drawbacks like inequality, pollution, and exploitation. In the US, issues highlighted include high poverty and wealth inequality.
Capitalism, socialism, and communism differ in their basic economic and political philosophies. Capitalism is based on private ownership and markets, prioritizing individual profit. Socialism emphasizes social ownership and equality, with profits distributed among society. Communism calls for complete public ownership and elimination of social classes, money, and the state, with production organized to directly meet human needs. The document provides a detailed comparison of these systems across factors such as their core ideas, economic models, views on private property, and major proponents.
This document provides a Marxist analysis of the costs and benefits of neoliberalism from a class perspective. It summarizes that neoliberalism arose from the structural crisis of the 1970s as the ideological expression of the financial fraction of ruling classes reasserting dominance after losing power during the Keynesian era. It analyzes the history of modern finance emerging in the late 19th century and its waxing and waning influence. While the costs of neoliberalism for other classes like slow growth and unemployment are acknowledged, the document aims to demonstrate the immense benefits reaped by the financial sector in the form of soaring profits and growth, facilitated by policies that transferred resources to finance.
The document discusses key concepts related to economic institutions and systems. It defines economy as a social institution that organizes a society's production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Throughout history, economic systems have evolved from simple structures in primitive societies to today's more complex systems. Modern economies can generally be categorized as capitalist, socialist, or mixed. The functions of economic institutions include meeting basic needs, generating income and employment, promoting trade and investment, and more.
The dilemmas of the developmental state: democracy and economic development i...FGV Brazil
Is it possible to reconcile one of the institutional strategies to promote development, known in the literature as “the developmental state”, with contemporary democratic systems of government? If so, what are the challenges, trade-offs and potential gains that such an effort may entail? The vast literature on “the developmental state” claims that it is more likely to succeed under autocratic regimes. While a “democratic developmental state” seems possible in theory, there is very little empirical evidence to show how it would work in practice. This article tries to contribute to this debate by analyzing the case of Brazil, a country that transitioned from a military dictatorship to a democratic regime in the late 1980s, and has been moving towards increasing state interventionism since 2002. While the policies implemented by the “New Developmental State” in Brazil have been explored in the academic literature, their democratic dimensions remain unchartered.
Date: 2015
Authors:
Prado, Mariana Mota
Schapiro, Mario Gomes
Coutinho, Diogo R.
This document provides a critical analysis of Aid for Trade (AfT) programs. It argues that while AfT discourse promotes norms of poverty reduction and fair trade, the actual outcomes of AfT assistance may differ. Donor institutions use AfT narratives to rationalize trade liberalization agendas and embed "pro-poor" norms within trade systems. However, concerns remain that AfT funds are insufficient and slow to arrive. The material impact of AfT on infrastructure, governance, and private sector development is also questioned. A moral economy perspective is applied to examine potential gaps between AfT discourse and outcomes for the poor.
This document discusses how transnational corporations have secured "legal certainty" through a new global corporate law made up of numerous trade and investment agreements and norms. This legal framework protects corporate interests over people's rights and national sovereignty. The concept of legal certainty is often misused to justify protecting past contracts and investments over human rights. True legal certainty would place international human rights law above corporate interests. There is a need to reform international law to subordinate trade and investment rules to human rights and make peoples' sovereignty the top priority.
Comparative Economic Systems - Intro to Capitalism. Read about the Capitalism, its advantages and disadvantages. You will find it helpful in your studies. Don't forget to like and follow.
The document provides an overview of the U.S. business system. It discusses the concept of business and profit, different economic systems, factors of production, and the economics of the U.S. market system including demand, supply, and competition. It also summarizes the history of business in the U.S. from the industrial revolution to the current internet era.
The ending of capitalism have been subject to predictions that anticipated an end, but it has prevailed and has strengthened; apparently has more strength and staying power now than before
Capitalism 101 provides a summary of capitalism throughout history. The document states that over the last 200 years in Western civilization, capitalism has led to a steady rise in the standard of living of wage earners. It operates through mass production for mass consumption, directed by energetic individuals aiming for improvement. The driving force is profit motive, which forces businesses to provide more, better, and cheaper goods for consumers. An improving economy and rising standard of living depends on this system. Thus, capitalism promotes the welfare of most people through the efforts of the ambitious few.
difference between Capitalism vs socialismPrathap Murthy
Capitalism and socialism differ in their levels of government intervention and economic aims. Capitalism focuses on private ownership and a free market, prioritizing efficiency through profit incentives but potentially allowing inequality, while socialism emphasizes state or public ownership and redistribution of resources to ensure equal opportunities and outcomes for all.
Capitalism is an economic system where private individuals and businesses own and operate production of goods and services for profit. There are different types of capitalism including free-market capitalism with no government intervention, social market economies with some social policies, and mixed economies with both public and private ownership. Capitalism began with the emergence of private capital and markets in Europe in the 12th-13th centuries. While capitalism allows for private property and free markets, governments often implement minimum wages, safety standards, and other policies. Economists and critics have different perspectives on capitalism and its impacts.
El documento describe la misión, visión y valores de CIHAC, una asociación civil mexicana sin fines de lucro fundada en 1967 para promover el desarrollo de la industria de la construcción y la vivienda en México. CIHAC busca coordinar esfuerzos entre el sector empresarial de la construcción y el gobierno para mejorar la productividad, la competitividad y las oportunidades de negocio en la industria, así como difundir conocimientos actualizados sobre productos y servicios a través de exposiciones como la EXPO C
1) Expanding pension coverage is challenging as traditional social insurance models have stagnated. Emerging responses include social pensions, matching contribution programs, and subsidized health insurance for the poor.
2) Designing programs for informal sector workers requires addressing their variable incomes, low savings, and liquidity preferences. Programs minimize costs and maximize incentives through features like small contributions and default investments.
3) A combination of social pensions set at the poverty level and means-tested matching contribution programs indexed to income can work together to expand coverage in the short and long-term.
Alexis Ohanian opening keynote 2013 Atlanta Digital SummitAlexis Ohanian
The document provides tips on how to succeed at online marketing. It advises marketers to make something people want and love rather than focusing on big budgets. Successful marketing is about being human, earning attention through quality content rather than ads, and doing things that create real connections rather than just scaling the business. The key is giving genuine care about customers and communities over profits.
Romania appreciates the economic benefits of increased globalization and foreign direct investment, but recognizes that without proper regulation globalization will not benefit all. Romania believes globalization must promote democratic values, human rights, labor standards, and environmental protection to effectively serve the global community. As an EU member, Romania supports multilateral cooperation to guide globalization towards benefiting all people.
Capitalism and socialism differ in their views on the role of government and economic equality. Socialists believe the government should reduce inequality through programs that benefit the poor, while capitalists argue the free market is more efficient. Schumpeter theorized that advanced capitalism would lead to the election of socialist governments and restrictions on entrepreneurship, eventually replacing capitalism with socialism through democratic means rather than revolution. Intellectuals would play a role in criticizing capitalism and supporting socialism. However, Schumpeter did not foresee the failure of socialism in Eastern Europe or technology fostering innovation in Western societies.
[MOST SOLD]Unbound: How Inequality Constricts Our Economy and What We Can Do ...gaxevepe
From one of Washington's most influential voices on economic policy, a lively and original argument that reducing inequality is not just fair but also key to delivering broadly shared economic growth and stability.Do we have to choose between equality and prosperity? Many think that reducing economic inequality would require such heavy-handed interference with market forces that it would stifle economic growth. Heather Boushey, one of Washington's most influential economic voices, insists nothing could be further from the truth. Presenting cutting-edge economics with journalistic verve, she shows how rising inequality has become a drag on growth and an impediment to a competitive US marketplace for employers and employees alike.Boushey argues that inequality undermines growth in three ways. It obstructs the supply of talent, ideas, and capital as wealthy families monopolize the best educational, social, and economic opportunities. It also subverts private competition and public investment. Powerful corporations muscle competitors out of business, in the process costing consumers, suppressing wages, and hobbling innovation, while governments underfund key public goods that make the American Dream possible, from schools to transportation infrastructure to information and communication technology networks. Finally, it distorts consumer demand as stagnant wages and meager workplace benefits rob ordinary people of buying power and pushes the economy toward financial instability.Boushey makes this case with a clear, accessible tour of the best of contemporary economic research, while also injecting a passion for her subject gained through years of research into the economics of work-life conflict and policy work in the trenches of federal government. Unbound exposes deep problems in the US economy, but its conclusion is optimistic. We can preserve the best of our nation's economic and political traditions, and improve on them, by pursuing policies that reduce inequality--and by doing so, boost broadly shared economic growth.
social enterprise a new model for poverty reduction and employment generationBoni
This document examines social enterprises as a model for poverty reduction and employment generation in Europe and the Commonwealth of Independent States. It provides an overview of the emergence and evolution of social enterprises, and analyzes their role and legal status in Poland, Serbia, and Ukraine. The document aims to stimulate debate on how social enterprises can improve lives and support human development, particularly for disadvantaged groups. It is the result of collaboration between the UNDP and EMES European Research Network over two years.
Capitalism is an economic system defined by private ownership of property and business for profit. It features free markets, competition, and limited government intervention. Benefits include efficient resource use and economic growth, while drawbacks include inequality and instability. Socialism is a system where the state owns and controls production and economic planning. It aims for equality and welfare, but can lack incentives, individual freedom, and efficiency compared to capitalism. Both systems have merits and demerits when considering economic outcomes and social impacts.
Social media and transnational capitalismDavid Kreps
This document summarizes key concepts from a paper about social media and transnational capitalism. It discusses how venture capital funds social media platforms and how they operate as businesses that commodify human relationships and user data for advertising. It draws on Gramsci's concept of hegemony and Gill's idea of a transnational historic bloc dominated by transnational capital. Social media platforms form their own type of dominant bloc that maintains influence through commercialization and monetizing users.
The document discusses different economic systems such as capitalism, socialism, and mixed economies. It provides definitions and characteristics of each system. Capitalism involves private ownership and operation for profit, while socialism involves social ownership and cooperative management. A mixed economy combines aspects of both systems. The document then compares capitalism and socialism, noting differences in ownership, incentives, equality, and employment. It outlines benefits of capitalism like efficient allocation and production but also drawbacks like inequality, pollution, and exploitation. In the US, issues highlighted include high poverty and wealth inequality.
Capitalism, socialism, and communism differ in their basic economic and political philosophies. Capitalism is based on private ownership and markets, prioritizing individual profit. Socialism emphasizes social ownership and equality, with profits distributed among society. Communism calls for complete public ownership and elimination of social classes, money, and the state, with production organized to directly meet human needs. The document provides a detailed comparison of these systems across factors such as their core ideas, economic models, views on private property, and major proponents.
This document provides a Marxist analysis of the costs and benefits of neoliberalism from a class perspective. It summarizes that neoliberalism arose from the structural crisis of the 1970s as the ideological expression of the financial fraction of ruling classes reasserting dominance after losing power during the Keynesian era. It analyzes the history of modern finance emerging in the late 19th century and its waxing and waning influence. While the costs of neoliberalism for other classes like slow growth and unemployment are acknowledged, the document aims to demonstrate the immense benefits reaped by the financial sector in the form of soaring profits and growth, facilitated by policies that transferred resources to finance.
The document discusses key concepts related to economic institutions and systems. It defines economy as a social institution that organizes a society's production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services. Throughout history, economic systems have evolved from simple structures in primitive societies to today's more complex systems. Modern economies can generally be categorized as capitalist, socialist, or mixed. The functions of economic institutions include meeting basic needs, generating income and employment, promoting trade and investment, and more.
The dilemmas of the developmental state: democracy and economic development i...FGV Brazil
Is it possible to reconcile one of the institutional strategies to promote development, known in the literature as “the developmental state”, with contemporary democratic systems of government? If so, what are the challenges, trade-offs and potential gains that such an effort may entail? The vast literature on “the developmental state” claims that it is more likely to succeed under autocratic regimes. While a “democratic developmental state” seems possible in theory, there is very little empirical evidence to show how it would work in practice. This article tries to contribute to this debate by analyzing the case of Brazil, a country that transitioned from a military dictatorship to a democratic regime in the late 1980s, and has been moving towards increasing state interventionism since 2002. While the policies implemented by the “New Developmental State” in Brazil have been explored in the academic literature, their democratic dimensions remain unchartered.
Date: 2015
Authors:
Prado, Mariana Mota
Schapiro, Mario Gomes
Coutinho, Diogo R.
This document provides a critical analysis of Aid for Trade (AfT) programs. It argues that while AfT discourse promotes norms of poverty reduction and fair trade, the actual outcomes of AfT assistance may differ. Donor institutions use AfT narratives to rationalize trade liberalization agendas and embed "pro-poor" norms within trade systems. However, concerns remain that AfT funds are insufficient and slow to arrive. The material impact of AfT on infrastructure, governance, and private sector development is also questioned. A moral economy perspective is applied to examine potential gaps between AfT discourse and outcomes for the poor.
This document discusses how transnational corporations have secured "legal certainty" through a new global corporate law made up of numerous trade and investment agreements and norms. This legal framework protects corporate interests over people's rights and national sovereignty. The concept of legal certainty is often misused to justify protecting past contracts and investments over human rights. True legal certainty would place international human rights law above corporate interests. There is a need to reform international law to subordinate trade and investment rules to human rights and make peoples' sovereignty the top priority.
Comparative Economic Systems - Intro to Capitalism. Read about the Capitalism, its advantages and disadvantages. You will find it helpful in your studies. Don't forget to like and follow.
The document provides an overview of the U.S. business system. It discusses the concept of business and profit, different economic systems, factors of production, and the economics of the U.S. market system including demand, supply, and competition. It also summarizes the history of business in the U.S. from the industrial revolution to the current internet era.
The ending of capitalism have been subject to predictions that anticipated an end, but it has prevailed and has strengthened; apparently has more strength and staying power now than before
Capitalism 101 provides a summary of capitalism throughout history. The document states that over the last 200 years in Western civilization, capitalism has led to a steady rise in the standard of living of wage earners. It operates through mass production for mass consumption, directed by energetic individuals aiming for improvement. The driving force is profit motive, which forces businesses to provide more, better, and cheaper goods for consumers. An improving economy and rising standard of living depends on this system. Thus, capitalism promotes the welfare of most people through the efforts of the ambitious few.
difference between Capitalism vs socialismPrathap Murthy
Capitalism and socialism differ in their levels of government intervention and economic aims. Capitalism focuses on private ownership and a free market, prioritizing efficiency through profit incentives but potentially allowing inequality, while socialism emphasizes state or public ownership and redistribution of resources to ensure equal opportunities and outcomes for all.
Capitalism is an economic system where private individuals and businesses own and operate production of goods and services for profit. There are different types of capitalism including free-market capitalism with no government intervention, social market economies with some social policies, and mixed economies with both public and private ownership. Capitalism began with the emergence of private capital and markets in Europe in the 12th-13th centuries. While capitalism allows for private property and free markets, governments often implement minimum wages, safety standards, and other policies. Economists and critics have different perspectives on capitalism and its impacts.
El documento describe la misión, visión y valores de CIHAC, una asociación civil mexicana sin fines de lucro fundada en 1967 para promover el desarrollo de la industria de la construcción y la vivienda en México. CIHAC busca coordinar esfuerzos entre el sector empresarial de la construcción y el gobierno para mejorar la productividad, la competitividad y las oportunidades de negocio en la industria, así como difundir conocimientos actualizados sobre productos y servicios a través de exposiciones como la EXPO C
1) Expanding pension coverage is challenging as traditional social insurance models have stagnated. Emerging responses include social pensions, matching contribution programs, and subsidized health insurance for the poor.
2) Designing programs for informal sector workers requires addressing their variable incomes, low savings, and liquidity preferences. Programs minimize costs and maximize incentives through features like small contributions and default investments.
3) A combination of social pensions set at the poverty level and means-tested matching contribution programs indexed to income can work together to expand coverage in the short and long-term.
Alexis Ohanian opening keynote 2013 Atlanta Digital SummitAlexis Ohanian
The document provides tips on how to succeed at online marketing. It advises marketers to make something people want and love rather than focusing on big budgets. Successful marketing is about being human, earning attention through quality content rather than ads, and doing things that create real connections rather than just scaling the business. The key is giving genuine care about customers and communities over profits.
Las primeras redes de comunicación usaron tecnología telefónica y telegráfica. En la década de 1940 se transmitieron datos entre universidades. En los años 70 surgieron las minicomputadoras y los primeros ordenadores personales como el Apple I en 1976. Las PC comenzaron a compartir archivos usando módems a finales de los 80.
El documento habla sobre el Día del Libro, celebrado el 23 de abril, y explica brevemente su origen y la historia del libro a través de los tiempos, desde soportes antiguos como el papiro y pergamino hasta la invención de la imprenta y biblias impresas como la de Gutenberg. También menciona el posible futuro del libro.
Este documento proporciona instrucciones para agregar nuevos vendedores al catálogo de clientes de una empresa. Explica los pasos para activar el módulo de facturas y vendedores, abrir el catálogo de vendedores, agregar un nuevo registro e ingresar la clave, nombre, porcentaje de comisión, zona de venta y correo electrónico del vendedor. Además, enumera la cantidad de vendedores y sus zonas y porcentajes de comisión.
El documento argumenta que las personas a menudo posponen su felicidad a eventos futuros como terminar la universidad o conseguir un trabajo, en lugar de disfrutar el presente. Sin embargo, no hay un mejor momento para ser feliz que el presente, por lo que las personas deberían dejar de esperar y decidir ser felices ahora. La felicidad es un viaje, no un destino, por lo que hay que apreciar cada momento.
Este documento describe la didáctica para el aprendizaje en niños de preescolar, explicando que utiliza estrategias de enseñanza a través del juego para fortalecer las habilidades cognitivas, motrices y sensoriales de los niños. También proporciona una metodología de enseñanza para los profesores basada en el aprendizaje a través del juego, y discute cómo los recursos didácticos como libros, folletos, pizarrón y juegos ayudan a los estudiantes a dominar los conten
The document forecasts that M&A activity will be robust in 2013 as companies look to consolidate and fill product/service gaps. It notes that deals under $100M increased in Q1 2013 for B2B software, IT, and BPO services. Strategic acquirers are seeking complementary assets while distressed companies lack capital. There is also a shortage of financial acquirers for companies with EBITDA under $10M. The forecast predicts continued strategic acquisitions and private equity exits in 2013.
Capitalism and the naive spirit for building the futureGRAZIA TANTA
Convincing capitalists to abandon the logic of growth that leverages profit-making would require them to consider hara-kiri
A – Capital’s structure and operating mode
1 – Capitalism’s essential objective – The accumulation of capital
2 – Main instruments of capitalist accumulation
3 – Side effects of the capital accumulation model
B – The insufficiency of any piecemeal approach to capitalism
Antenna for Social Innovation. We Share. Who Wins: unravelling the controvers...ESADE
In this fourth edition of the Antenna for Social Innovation, we discuss one of the most fascinating and controversial economic transformations: the growth of the collaborative economy. This transformation has been accompanied by a series of events that is destined to revolutionise our societies – namely, the expansion of the Internet, as well as the rise of smartphones, social networks, advances in artificial intelligence, and the capacity to instantly process huge amounts of information at a tiny cost. We talk about societies in a broad sense because the new wave of developments in the digital economy will transform the economic sphere of our lives – as well as the workplace, tax system, educational models, consumption patterns, and communications.
This document discusses the ongoing drift towards fascism seen through several lenses. It notes the growing fiscal pressure on households from tax agencies acting on behalf of governments seeking more revenue. Most families are threatened by capitalist pressures that undermine income from work through unpaid overtime, job precarity, and delayed retirement. Political classes are servilely aligned with capitalist interests, prioritizing endless GDP growth over people's well-being. Widespread apathy allows these power structures to persist without challenge. Nationalism is promoted to divide people and justify resource extraction, while mass media and technology enable large-scale social manipulation. The financial system exerts opaque control over lives through debt and impending cash abolition. Ideological subversion in education serves capitalist interests in
1) The document discusses how comparative advantage theory assumes perfect competition and equal distribution of wealth under free market conditions, but these assumptions do not hold under "crony capitalism" where close relationships between business and government allow some firms to gain preferential treatment.
2) It argues that crony capitalism has contributed to rising inequality within and between nations by benefiting large corporations through things like cheap land, tax breaks, and subsidies, while neglecting rural populations.
3) While early trade theories discounted international trade as a major cause of rising income inequality, the document questions this by arguing that crony capitalism and unequal distribution of wealth produced by capitalism have exacerbated inequality.
A critical appraisal of comparative advantage theory under free market crony ...Akhilesh Chandra Prabhakar
This paper investigates comparative advantage theory and principle which is suggested that price of factors and
commodities determined by the supply and the demand forces in free market conditions, the market forces
automatically allocate resources efficiently that have the property that someone can be made better off without
someone being made worse off, it means equally redistributed incomes. The paper identifies the root causes of the
problems of inequality among people and between nations, and find the problem of world-wide inequality is the final
outcome/product of free market and crony capitalism. The study explores theoretically, conceptually, and empirically
through surveying literatures both primary and secondary sources. Finally, various policies and recommendations are
highlighted.
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The 20th century elevated consumption to be central and critical to the economic system, occurring as a consequence of the way production and labor were organized. But by the dawn of the new century, developed societies were grappling with the challenge of creating a more humane form of consumption, driven by three major forces: lower labor demands in technological industry, erosion of the social contract, and the environmental costs of reckless consumption on increasingly scarce natural resources.
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Rodrik_Feasible_Globalizations
FEASIBLE GLOBALIZATIONS
Dani Rodrik1
Harvard University
July 2002
Introduction
We want economic integration to help boost living standards. We want democratic
politics so that public policy decisions are made by those that are directly affected by them (or
their representatives). And we want self-determination, which comes with the nation-state. This
paper argues that we cannot have all three things simultaneously. The political trilemma of the
global economy is that the nation-state system, democratic politics, and full economic
integration are mutually incompatible. We can have at most two out of the three. It follows that
the direction in which we seem to be headed—global markets without global governance—is
unsustainable.
The alternative is a renewed “Bretton-Woods compromise:” preserving some limits on
integration, as built into the original Bretton Woods arrangements, along with some more global
rules to handle the integration that can be achieved. Those who would make a different choice—
toward tighter economic integration—must face up to the corollary: either tighter world
government or less democracy.
During the first four decades following the close of the Second World War, international
policy makers had kept their ambitions in check. They pursued a limited form of
internationalization of their economies, leaving lots of room for national economic management.
Successive rounds of multilateral trade negotiations made great strides, but focused only on the
most egregious of the barriers at the border and excluded large chunks of the economy
1 I am grateful to Michael Weinstein for very helpful suggestions.
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(agriculture, services, “sensitive” manufactures such as garments). In capital markets,
restrictions on currency transactions and financial flows remained the norm rather than the
exception. This Bretton Woods/GATT regime was successful because its architects subjugated
international economic integration to the needs and demands of national economic management
and of democratic politics.
This strategy changed drastically during the last two decades. Global policy is now
driven by an aggressive agenda of “deep” integration—elimination of all barriers to trade and
capital flows wherever those barriers may be found. The results have been problematic--in terms
of both economic performance (relative to the earlier post-war decades) and political legitimacy.
The simple reason is that “deep” economic integration is unattainable in a context where nation
states and democratic politics still exert considerable force.
The title of this essay conveys therefore two ideas. First, there are inherent limitations to
how far we can push global economic integration. It is neither feasible nor desirable to
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1. ECONOMY WITHIN GLOBAL POLICIES
. By: Eng. Ali Laçej
ERA-NGO
Shkoder-Albania
In the last centuries several attempts have been made in order to turn the economy into an
exact science by applying certain rules and determinability laws, to the way economy
moves (operates) within definite conditions.
Between directly planned (otherwise commanded) and indirectly planned (otherwise
market) economies, there has been an open confrontation, conceived as systems’ clashes
and state machinery or state coalitions clashes.
Really the character of this dispute was a clashing of systems of political philosophies
applied in economic practices.
By the turn of this millennium, have succeeded the system providing more individual and
community freedom, more individual and group identity, more capabilities to self-
change, that is, more venturing initiative relating to the individual or interest group.
However, things are changing, we already have a different type of development seen as:
1. Tendencies of Global Policies and Global Economy
I still feel somehow challenged upon reading the essay of Mr. Francis Fukuyama, (ex-
director of planning the foreign policies in Bush’s administration, USA) entitled “The End
of History” that in fact with Carl Poper’s “The Misery of Historicism”, George Soros’s
“The Idea of an Open Society”, offer a new “Quantum”, on the way to the organising and
applying of the economic system.
The fact is that, we all (the Albanians) have been a part of a closed economic system,
commanded to its last instance of organisation. We had the opportunity to study, to survey,
and assimilate a lot of the concepts and ideas for the first time. But we have the great
chance to not start from the end of the century but from the offset of this millennium.
Apart from what Mr. Fukujama claims: “we are not interested on some strange ideas people
in Albania and Burkina Faso would have“, we experience the opportunity and we are
interested to know what is the attitude and what are the tendencies of great centres of
civilisation and of course, of the modern economy.
In general, great centres of civilisation and economy go by the principle that:
“ The civilised PEOPLE consume less quantity and more quality” hence, it is available
regarding to consumption market; (be it of durable or no durable goods) food, clothing,
homes, means of communication and transport, entertainment and regeneration - as well as
for the market of ideas, information or education. To this is added the recycling of raw
materials in the form of urban wastes, but which is still in its first stages to ensure
economic efficiencies.
At the same time the extension of markets into political – geographical unions is
becoming a reality. About the same pace, large industries are growing and joining in
these markets. A graphic example is the alliance of automobile production industries.
Obviously this trend is going to last for long and it will derive adjustments to orienting
the global market and laws of competitiveness.
Another factor introducing an integrating agent of a global character in economic
culture is the culture of currency, or economic symbol.
Gradually the Babel’s Tower of the World Finances is giving way to supranational
finance symbols.
It will be precisely these supranational finance symbols, through their institutions to
promote regional and global stability, which will indirectly plan fields of prior
development and indispensable “Welfare” levels in entire areas or regions integrating
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2. global education, as well.
But supranational finance symbols converted into currency or super-currency, into plastic
money or stock exchange headings, will bring forth the unification of philosophic trends.
There will the interests play the firs role. Will interest mean only material profit?
The mankind having learned the bitter lesson on centralised economies, with direct
planning, lacking individual and community freedom; having learned the lesson on social
solidarity missing within the wild capitalism regarding the costs it brings forth; is
requiring the philosophic expression to a new democratic system as the spirit of a newer
economy, beyond the classic “laissez faire” and Marxist Socio-Communism. But let us
treat this topic later according to the modified education waiting for us in the future.
2.Another factor constituting global economy is STANDARDS
Several times we watched on news the opening and the closing of markets for the British
beef, chickens from Greece, Belgium or Holland, or Belgian Coca-Cola.
In particular, very severe has been the dispute between EU and USA upon genetically
treated food products.
Much the same happened with cigarette ads in Formula One in England or with ice- cream
in Italy.
Besides standard’s integration, it is being moved rapidly towards their broad-scale
advertising. Public – consumers are being subject to the advertising campaigns but also to
the attention drawing towards the cases representing danger or indeterminacy. It is
generating a direct culture of critical attitude toward the quality of goods or services in
comparison with the promoted standards of individuals or group level. It is not
exclusive that sometimes such information instruments are used speculatively for political
interests.
Whoever is given the opportunity to study Microsoft’s Business Plan standardised more
or less for the year 2000 observes that its elements separate into TOP and into ALL,
including clients or goods. Subjective voluntarism is non-existent.
Enterprises, companies, corporations and family businesses will run by the same rules on:
money circulation, establishing business competitive strategies, or drawing up business
plans.
By the same track and the same ruling will run the evaluation of employed human
resources or payment, the selling of business, contracts, disagreement settling, income
and taxes, marketing plan, estimation of competitors or the creation of advertisement
and promotion
Standards are to be regarded a mathematical requisite for success being the final
target of an economic segmentation to be mastered.
3. Economic Resources and the Development of Economy in the Global Policy
The fact is that, apart from the building structure of an economy, in the entire mankind’s
history, the economy, in turn, is characterised by the direct subordination from human
or natural resources or from the resources transformed by them.
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3. In the twentieth century we witnessed two World Wars initiated by direct relations
toward natural resources, and human implications within them, it was witnessed even
that the notions of colonialism and neo-colonialism as non-profit methods in terms of
general economic organisation have been sidestepped.
Nowadays such things can be noticed only by the relations of higher-level finances, where
the attention of the ordinary mortals, or sometimes called otherwise – citizens, cannot
arrive at the true meaning of the word.
Positivism or negativism freed by the accomplishment of these relations, depends all the
more from the behaviour of the subordinate partner related to the schemes of principal
partner, otherwise it depends from the existence of financial markets with the same
parameters to measuring money cost, to measuring and regulating money circulation.
In terms of comparison; it is very difficult for a deaf-mute to communicate with a normal
person, no matter how many languages the latter can speak.
Maybe we are too late to start speaking the language of international financial
markets; it is no more a matter of national sovereignty. All the great European
countries are loosing it on themselves-benefit.
In the triad knowledge – technology - industry, rationality in using resources became
really measurable. Apart from the scope this three-levelled group operates:
• In natural resources
• In human resources
• Virtual resources
… If the flow of action (circulation) from one level to the other is not secured, the
efficiency - consequently rationality in utilising the source will not ensure gradients of
positive improvement
The competition has already well – established the necessity of fast communication in this
triad, but if watched within the framework of global economies outlining all the more by
each passing day, insofar even the elements of three - levelled sequence are liable to
homogenisation.
Schools and universities are standardising knowledge, scientific or technological
laboratories of corporations, even the competitive ones, all the more are exchanging
information (it is not surprising that specialists of general Motors or Fiat competing in the
markets of Latin America, solve together technical problems). Therefore industries
themselves tend towards all the larger alliances.
The way for: production organisation, marketing, and research; i.e. economy on the
whole… does no longer represent an issue of a national character. Nowadays, special
trademarks are gaining all the more international character.
Apparently, to afford three-levelled circulation knowledge-technology-industry, do not
suffice separate financial resources (economical energies). Such budgets can be realised but
through joint contributions of many subjects.
A quick image is offered by the European Community project “ARIANNE”. It is maybe
here starts the method of shared contributes as for the programs: PHARE, LEONARDO,
ECHO, FLAIR, ECLAIR, JOULE, TELEMAN, VALUE, SOCRATES, etc.
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4. For their part, industries are aiming to find selective natural resources integrated to a
satisfactory average education of human resources with all the broader re-qualifying
possibilities.
Our position is that of inactive resources and we are getting poorer at an unimaginable
speed in terms of human resources, especially in quality aspect.
The sooner be applied policies that ensure community’s serenity, the rehabilitation of
state institutions, removal of senseless barriers as regards technologies by replacing
them with spurring accessories; the sooner would we re-start intensive development.
4. Modern Political Philosophies and Economic Education
And here we are next to real tendencies of political philosophies; that is to say the system
that increases the level of liberty, meanwhile it tends to extinguish the causes of
instabilities or regressive education.
Global policies intend to establish a larger and freer economic space, an integrative
factor for common development aims, thus a lot of exclusive decision-making power of
solitary states is being transferred into state communities. In the meantime, during the
last decade, are heightened the tendencies to increasing the autonomy of local
governments, improving the administration of human and natural resources, making it
more rational and faster in order to increase development gradients and the quality of
life, as well as to establish higher levels of communities’ life
The most proceeding cases are represented by Scotland and Northern Ireland, meanwhile
the same tendencies, but of different connotations, exist in Basque region or North Italy. It is
more or less the so-called EUROPE of TOWNS, or as it is mentioned in political theories’
terminology “Grass roots democracy”
The most meaningful program realizing this concept into practice is the program of
World Bank called: FDI – Fiscal Decentralisation Initiative, which is nothing else then
the economic expression of aforementioned political philosophy.
The other tendency is the crescent consciousness on natural environment protection
and development, as well as the well-run usage within it. Generally it is called “Green
Ideology”
None of them contradict the other. The first tendency – the decentralization of super-
centralized states or unlimited authorities into international or local governing bodies goes
the way to establish higher levels of protection of unrepeatable natural wealth or of those by
slower repetition then human resources increment. All natural resources are not everlasting;
naturally not so near to our age, but such they remain! “Green Ideology” is trying to
explain a philosophy of such a political movement.
By this way, the administration of these resources goes closer to those having more
responsibilities toward next generations, inheritors of common wealth or community life
quality. Consequently, by all means “Green Ideology” and “Grass Roots Democracy”
are complementary.
Nowadays it is no longer only a matter of economic reliability or feasibility, but at the
first place is coming the effective management of resources.
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5. At the big centers of economy and civilization, in the course of time, institutional sources,
medias and institutions of education have adapted this informing and educating trend.
Everyday the political life of those centers pursues a triangular module as follows:
Globalization - Think globally, act individually
Decentralization - Economic decision-making as close as possible to the
community
Naturalization - An economy of rationalized natural resources, fast circulation,
high quality.
REFLECTION
In fact, it seems a luxury to think about global policies and global political
developments, when in Albania and most of Balkan, the economy and politics are so
chaotic and informal and economic education is at intuitive steps; when economic
institutions maybe know but are unable to do, as complementary institutional factors
are so far from being such.
The Conference on Regional Economic Resources Evaluation, continuing the first tentative
we made to establish The Basis Of Regional Development Strategy (Prefecture of
Shkodra) is one of further steps to complete with ideas and visions what in the future will be
the truly Regional Strategy of Development for Shkodra Region. Its completing depends
from a lot of politic, social and economic factors, but anyhow we feel good as we started to
do something having our own way.
Therefore we want to think about the globalization, too; not so as to pretend interfering to its
realization, because numbers and their order do not give us that liberty; that as to find the
most rational way to our natural place within this system.
1. Tendencies of Global Policies and Global Economy
...We have the opportunity and we are interested to know what is the attitude and what
are the tendencies of great centers of civilization and of course, of the modern
economy.
From the principle “ the civilized man consumes less quantity and more quality”
From the recycling of raw materials in the form of urban wastes,
From the extension of markets into political – geographical unions is becoming a
reality. Obviously this trend is going to last for long and it will derive
adjustments to orienting the global market and laws of competitiveness.
From the establishment of supranational financial symbols, which through their
institutions will tend more global and regional stabilities, that will indirectly
plan prior development fields in certain areas or regions, as well as necessary
“Welfare system” levels including there the global education.
From that the method of organization of: production, merchandising, research,
so making economy in general…does not represent anymore a matter of only
national interest.
It remains of e great National interest: “Everything to the development”
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6. 2. STANDARDS
The opening or closing of markets is being done more and more on behalf of
standards integration, through promotional campaigns, and the attention drawing
towards the cases representing danger or indeterminacy.
Directly is being established a culture of critical attitude toward the quality of
goods or services in comparison with the promoted standards of group level.
Enterprises, companies, or family businesses will run by the same rules on: money
circulation, establishing business competitive strategies, or drawing up business plans.
By the same track and the same ruling will run the evaluation of employed human
resources or payment, the selling of business, contracts, disagreement settling, income
and taxes, marketing plan, estimation of competitors or the creation of advertisement
and promotion.
A vital question remains: Integrate in the private business Young Economists, educated
by new concepts, as soon as possible, or there is no chance for economic development.
Standards are to be regarded a mathematical requisite for success being the final
target of an economic segmentation to be mastered.
3. Economic Resources and the Development of Economy in the Global Policy
o It is the era of financial markets by the same parameters to measuring
money cost, to measuring and regulating money circulation.
o Maybe we are too late to start speaking the language of international
financial markets; it is no more a matter of national sovereignty. All the
great European countries are loosing it on themselves-benefit.
It is re-conceived the triad knowledge – technology - industry, regarding: natural
resources, human resources and virtual resources, aiming to increase the flow of action
(circulation) from one level to the other.
The segments of the triad are liable to homogenisation.
Universities are standardizing knowledge
Scientific or technological laboratories, even the competitive ones, all the
more are exchanging information.
Industries themselves tend towards all the larger alliances.
Industries are aiming to find selective natural resources integrated to a
satisfactory average education of human resources with all the broader
re-qualifying possibilities.
Our position is that of inactive resources and we are getting poorer at an
unimaginable speed in terms of human resources, especially in quality
aspect.
The sooner be applied policies that ensure community’s serenity, the
rehabilitation of state institutions, removal of senseless barriers as
regards technologies by replacing them with spurring accessories; the
sooner would we re-start intensive development.
4. Modern Political Philosophies and Economic Education
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7. New politic philosophies are getting oriented to a new equilibrium of the system, as for the
same we aim the system that increases the level of liberty, meanwhile it tends to:
Extinguish the causes of instabilities or regressive education.
Establish a bigger and freer economic space, an integrative factor for
common development aims.
Transfer a lot of exclusive decision-making power of solitary states is
being into state communities
Increase the autonomy of local governments, doing good to more rational
and faster administration of human and natural resources in order to
increase development gradients and the quality of life, as well as to
establish higher levels of communities’ life
It is more or less the so-called EUROPE of TOWNS, or as it is mentioned in political
theories’ terminology “Grass roots democracy”.
Increase the consciousness on natural environment protection and
development, as well as the rationalized usage of it-“Green Ideology”.
Both of philosophies are complementary to each other.
Utilize supranational financial symbols to generate and unify philosophic
trends in order to bring up a new evaluation of relations between:
○ economic reliability or feasibility.
&
○ effective management of resources.
But there remain three main challenges, having no implementing recipe, which will test
regenerating ability of communities. Let us hope we’ll know what it really does mean:
Globalization - Think globally, act individually
Decentralization - Economic decision making as close as possible to the
community.
Naturalization - An economy of rationalized natural resources, fast circulation,
high quality
… And so much the more we’ll know to be as well behaved for the sake of our development
and broader.
Maybe it is the most challenge regarding the way to establishing the rule of law in
Albania.
Eng.ALI LAÇEJ
November,1999
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