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...Beyond Apologies presents a number of myths about mainstream economics and clarifies their focus on consumption rather than on wellbeing. Each myth is followed by a discussion of a different way of addressing the issue. The book then presents various practical ways of remedying the sit...

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...Society cannot get to a better place without looking at what is holding it back. Conventional beliefs about economics limit people to a few discourses and solutions that, rather than resolve problems, increase their magnitude. It is thus critically important to identify some widely accepted myths that underlie current economic disc...

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...INTRODUCTION: Why It Is Important To Learn About Economics PART I. ECONOMICS REVISITED: What we’ve always known about economics may not be so MYTH #1: The World’s Poor Just Need a Few More Dollars Per Day MYTH #2: GNP/GDP Tell Us How Well Everyone is Doing MYTH #3: Eco...

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...ion: Pricing Social Cost 37 Demo 1: Obesity 37 Part III: 39 $4 Trillion in Savings 39 Demo 2: Tobacco 39 Add Summary Chapters & Intro from Book, Economics: Hand of God, ROOPA Theology and The Abyss of Activism and the Wisdom Learned. 41 (Editor’s Note: . the ROOPA book was last written 5 years ago. We need to update the figures and rewrite the second half of the book...

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...ality. Rugova's ideals were good and noble - Gandhi-like passive resistance, market economics, constructive (though uncompromising and limited to th... ...f Love") - An Open Directory Cool Site, – Philosophy ("Philosophical Musings"), – Economics and Geopolitics ("World in Conflict and Transition"). ... ...ia, in Russia, in Egypt and in the Czech Republic. How the West lost the East. The economics, the politics, the geopolitics, the conspiracies, the ...

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...es at great speed across languages, ideologies, frontiers and races. The economics of this musi- cal Esperanto is staggering. …Popular music has br... ... drawing to a close. Since the 19 th century, the predominant school of economics has been the “economic hu- man” (Homo Economicus), which builds i...

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...he result was a powerful exchange of current findings, recent data, and new challenges from areas including health, medicine, education, social work, economics, government, law, and culture. This issue of Hulili features three essays from invited speakers, eight articles based on conference presentations, and two additional articles. We thank the members of our esteemed...

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... “They are right,” Ivan Matveitch observed tranquilly; “the principles of economics before everything.” “My dear! I will fly at once to the aut... ...ently aware that she was looking prettier than usual. “The principles of economics,” I answered with some emo tion, proud that passers by should ... ... proud that passers by should see the lady on my arm. “The principles of economics,” she drawled in a touching little voice. “I did not in the lea... ... did not in the least understand what Ivan Matveitch said about those horrid economics just now.” “I will explain to you,” I answered, and began a... ...point is that the crocodile is private property, so that the prin ciples of economics apply in this question. And the principles of economics are par...

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... and to those who for a time prioritize the caregiving side, with serious financial and social penalties. Arguments are noted from sociology, health, economics and feminist theory to support the claim that recognition of the care sector is a vital step to achieving equality and ‘best interests’ goals. The present justification for one-sided support of the care sector, focu...

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...ative Studies of 84 The Social Cost of Prostitution 84 Chapters 8 84 Comparative Studies of 84 The Social Cost of Illicit Sex 84 Section VII 85 Economics of Love & Hate 85 & other Early Writings from VNN 85 February 14, 1999 VNN3042 86 What Is Love Anyway? 86...

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...ponsible for themselves and the society? Italy‘s tight society and strong family security run counter to the competitiveness needed in global econom... ...ngs that need to be learned by rote—spelling, writing, the multiplication tables, and so forth. But video games can teach history, geography, econom... ...incorporated into our curriculum goals by about age 12. We expose all of our students to art and music, to philosophy and law, to politics and econom... ... countries as Zimbabwe, Congo and Burundi and the former Soviet republic, Moldavia. Russia isn‘t a whole lot better, in spite of its improved econom...

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...heating or air conditioning Sopogy’s MicroCSP technology has brought the economics of large, concentrating-solar-power systems to smaller industri...

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... development. Chapter Authors (in chapter order) Harm Schelhaas was born on a small dairy farm in the north of the Netherlands. He graduated in economics from the Free University in Amsterdam, The Netherlands. His career in the Dutch dairy industry included such posts as Chief of the Economic Department of the Federation of Dutch Dairy Co-operatives and the President...

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...ty and ignorance, I assure them earnestly that I know ten times as much of economics and a hundred times as much of practical administration as Marx d... ...hanging the minds of those who read it, in spite of its unsound capitalist economics, its pa- rade of quotations from books which the author had eithe...

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...n the peculiar attitude in which he stood to money, his system of personal economics, as we may call it, he displayed a vast amount of truly down-East...