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... waste before the product leaves the factory while 80% of products made get throw away within the first six months of their lives (Perella, 2014). By contrast, the circular pathway is seen as a much more beneficial and sustainable way for our society to continue to prosper without resorting to depend ...
... waste before the product leaves the factory while 80% of products made get throw away within the first six months of their lives (Perella, 2014). By contrast, the circular pathway is seen as a much more beneficial and sustainable way for our society to continue to prosper without resorting to depend ...
How Do We Compare Economies?
... Egypt, which were the first strong and extended states wielding absolute power over crucial economic decision making. There is good reason to believe that the traditional and market allocation mechanisms long predated the command economies of these empires, which date back only 5,000 years. Forms of ...
... Egypt, which were the first strong and extended states wielding absolute power over crucial economic decision making. There is good reason to believe that the traditional and market allocation mechanisms long predated the command economies of these empires, which date back only 5,000 years. Forms of ...
Adding Skilled Labor To America`s Melting Pot Would Heat Up U.S.
... work visas based on demand from employers, with a particular emphasis on STEM fields, rather than applicants' familial connections or via a lottery. At the same time, the so-called Gang of Eight, senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C. ...
... work visas based on demand from employers, with a particular emphasis on STEM fields, rather than applicants' familial connections or via a lottery. At the same time, the so-called Gang of Eight, senators Michael Bennet (D-Colo.), Richard Durbin (D-Ill.), Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.), Lindsey Graham (R-S.C. ...
Structural Crises in the Historical Dynamics of Social Change
... These four crises can be denoted as “structural”. By their size, duration, periodicity (of about 30 years), and their causes that hack back to the long-term dynamics of capitalism, they can be singled out as distinct from the recurrent recessions that punctuate the phases the business cycle every fi ...
... These four crises can be denoted as “structural”. By their size, duration, periodicity (of about 30 years), and their causes that hack back to the long-term dynamics of capitalism, they can be singled out as distinct from the recurrent recessions that punctuate the phases the business cycle every fi ...
CHAPTER 3
... Chapter 3 provides explanation of how economic systems and our ways of defining economic systems have evolved over the past few decades. The following is an exercise that is useful in helping students discover for themselves why economies typically combine market and socialist elements. In a large c ...
... Chapter 3 provides explanation of how economic systems and our ways of defining economic systems have evolved over the past few decades. The following is an exercise that is useful in helping students discover for themselves why economies typically combine market and socialist elements. In a large c ...
unions can increase efficiency - Illinois Economic Policy Institute
... reduce the number of people in poverty. Just 3.1 percent of full-time union workers live below the official poverty line compared to 6.3 percent of full-time nonunion workers and 17.9 percent of part-time workers. Dependency on publicly-provided health insurance programs, such as Medicaid, is lower ...
... reduce the number of people in poverty. Just 3.1 percent of full-time union workers live below the official poverty line compared to 6.3 percent of full-time nonunion workers and 17.9 percent of part-time workers. Dependency on publicly-provided health insurance programs, such as Medicaid, is lower ...
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... “Japan’s labor force is one of the most unproductive in the industrialized world. And not by a little. According to the Japan Productivity Center for SocioEconomic Development, a government-affiliated research center, Japanese laborers are 40% less efficient than Americans, 20% less efficient than t ...
... “Japan’s labor force is one of the most unproductive in the industrialized world. And not by a little. According to the Japan Productivity Center for SocioEconomic Development, a government-affiliated research center, Japanese laborers are 40% less efficient than Americans, 20% less efficient than t ...
Chapter 2--Classical Approaches
... money. Her coworkers Glenn and Helen quickly tried to convince her to slow down, as they knew management might start paying them only a penny a bag if they realized how easy the job was. Esmeralda is an example of a(n) ____, and Glenn and Helen's communication is an example of ____. A. initiatives a ...
... money. Her coworkers Glenn and Helen quickly tried to convince her to slow down, as they knew management might start paying them only a penny a bag if they realized how easy the job was. Esmeralda is an example of a(n) ____, and Glenn and Helen's communication is an example of ____. A. initiatives a ...
Fighting Precarity with Co
... In order to understand the contradictions of cultural work and identify possibilities for collective strategies of resistance, it is worth taking a moment to review some of the histories and transformations of working cultures in the twentieth century. Boltanski and Chiapello argue that post-Fordist ...
... In order to understand the contradictions of cultural work and identify possibilities for collective strategies of resistance, it is worth taking a moment to review some of the histories and transformations of working cultures in the twentieth century. Boltanski and Chiapello argue that post-Fordist ...
"Reading Legitimation Crisis during the Meltdown." Keynote
... access to credit, since, typically, labor and raw materials must be purchased before the finished product is sold. Consumers, too, need access to credit, particularly for big-ticket items like homes and cars. If access to credit dries up, spending contracts, production contracts, workers are laid of ...
... access to credit, since, typically, labor and raw materials must be purchased before the finished product is sold. Consumers, too, need access to credit, particularly for big-ticket items like homes and cars. If access to credit dries up, spending contracts, production contracts, workers are laid of ...
`bureaucratic` management in the post
... in terms of work organization related budget: the teams would be provided with some budgetary means for their own use. The organization of work followed the ‘5S’ model, adopted from a West European sister unit. There was a mutual one to two hours meeting every week on work-related issues, where mana ...
... in terms of work organization related budget: the teams would be provided with some budgetary means for their own use. The organization of work followed the ‘5S’ model, adopted from a West European sister unit. There was a mutual one to two hours meeting every week on work-related issues, where mana ...
Understanding the US Business System
... Quality Circle (QC): Small groups of employees working in the same organizational unit who, with the approval of management, voluntarily meet on a regular basis to identify and solve problems that directly affect their work. ...
... Quality Circle (QC): Small groups of employees working in the same organizational unit who, with the approval of management, voluntarily meet on a regular basis to identify and solve problems that directly affect their work. ...
The Third Great Wave
... It seems difficult to square this unhappy experience with the extraordinary technological progress during that period, but the same thing has happened before. Most economic historians reckon there was very little improvement in living standards in Britain in the century after the first Industrial Re ...
... It seems difficult to square this unhappy experience with the extraordinary technological progress during that period, but the same thing has happened before. Most economic historians reckon there was very little improvement in living standards in Britain in the century after the first Industrial Re ...
What is a Theory?
... Identified the practice of soldiering – employees working at a pace slower than their capabilities. He studied and timed each element of the workers’ jobs. He determined what each worker should be producing and then determined the most efficient way of doing each part of the job. Introduced rest per ...
... Identified the practice of soldiering – employees working at a pace slower than their capabilities. He studied and timed each element of the workers’ jobs. He determined what each worker should be producing and then determined the most efficient way of doing each part of the job. Introduced rest per ...
3. How Have These Economic Institutions Responded? (cont.)
... : Presuming that the employee would remain long with the firm, it was advantageous for both company and employees to invest in developing firm-specific skills. * Good to be combined with seniority wage system (paid below their MPL earlier in their career, reap rewards later in their career.) * Good ...
... : Presuming that the employee would remain long with the firm, it was advantageous for both company and employees to invest in developing firm-specific skills. * Good to be combined with seniority wage system (paid below their MPL earlier in their career, reap rewards later in their career.) * Good ...
New Keynesian Theory I
... Made up of ad hoc assumptions, not built on a strong foundation of rational agents. Must assume rational, optimizing agents. Must assume that markets clear. Keynesians do not explicitly handle expectations, and expectations have been shown to be critically important. Have not given explicit structur ...
... Made up of ad hoc assumptions, not built on a strong foundation of rational agents. Must assume rational, optimizing agents. Must assume that markets clear. Keynesians do not explicitly handle expectations, and expectations have been shown to be critically important. Have not given explicit structur ...
Chapter 1 (Updated) - Miles A. Zachary, Ph.D. || Homepage
... “The definition of the long-run goals and objectives of an enterprise, and the adoption of course of action and the allocation of resources necessary for carrying out these goals.” ...
... “The definition of the long-run goals and objectives of an enterprise, and the adoption of course of action and the allocation of resources necessary for carrying out these goals.” ...
Sticky Wage, Efficiency Wage, and Keynesian Unemployment*
... compensation. Moreover, few workers were willing to accept a pay cut even if they were overloaded and had to work overtime. In this model, firms’ employment decisions are related to an increase in workers’ effort in two opposite ways. On one hand, as workers supply more effort, the effective labor s ...
... compensation. Moreover, few workers were willing to accept a pay cut even if they were overloaded and had to work overtime. In this model, firms’ employment decisions are related to an increase in workers’ effort in two opposite ways. On one hand, as workers supply more effort, the effective labor s ...
Partnership between the Labor Movement and Black Workers: The
... like Nissan, working with a unionized workforce would not seem to be very problematical…. [But] Nissan has reacted to employee interest in unionizing with ‘a sustained campaign of psychological pressure against workers’ organizing efforts.’”15 The Moral Monday movement offers the labor movement yet ...
... like Nissan, working with a unionized workforce would not seem to be very problematical…. [But] Nissan has reacted to employee interest in unionizing with ‘a sustained campaign of psychological pressure against workers’ organizing efforts.’”15 The Moral Monday movement offers the labor movement yet ...
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... Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden responded by establishing various forms of guest-worker schemes. In the initial stages, guest-workers were recruited from southern Europe. Recruitment subsequently expanded to Turkey and North Africa. The West German government, for example, negotiated guest-worker ar ...
... Netherlands, Denmark and Sweden responded by establishing various forms of guest-worker schemes. In the initial stages, guest-workers were recruited from southern Europe. Recruitment subsequently expanded to Turkey and North Africa. The West German government, for example, negotiated guest-worker ar ...
0 SOLIDARITY ECONOMIES: THE COUNTERMOVEMENT RISING
... workers in the decision making. Global production is dominated by multinational corporations with the primary motivation of profit making. Pumping of consumerism for artificial demand creation has become the rule rather than an exception. Second, redistribution is an integral component of solidarit ...
... workers in the decision making. Global production is dominated by multinational corporations with the primary motivation of profit making. Pumping of consumerism for artificial demand creation has become the rule rather than an exception. Second, redistribution is an integral component of solidarit ...
draft - Horizon Poll
... And a statistic I particularly like as a dairy farmer is that, in farming in the UK, there are 446 cooperatives with a turnover of $NZ8.5 billion. Compare this with Dairy coops in New Zealand, which alone generated revenue of over $20 billion. While New Zealanders are pragmatic and businessfocussed ...
... And a statistic I particularly like as a dairy farmer is that, in farming in the UK, there are 446 cooperatives with a turnover of $NZ8.5 billion. Compare this with Dairy coops in New Zealand, which alone generated revenue of over $20 billion. While New Zealanders are pragmatic and businessfocussed ...
Why the New Economy is a learning economy
... to recognize that ‘a new era has arrived’. Historians are skeptical because they can always remember that what most of us see as new has been seen before. Economists belonging to the neoclassical mainstream school share this skepticism because they work with general tools and with tools that are not ...
... to recognize that ‘a new era has arrived’. Historians are skeptical because they can always remember that what most of us see as new has been seen before. Economists belonging to the neoclassical mainstream school share this skepticism because they work with general tools and with tools that are not ...