56 articles on "economic"

Market Impeders and Market Inefficiencies

et Impeders and Market Inefficiencies by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Even the most devout proponents of free marketry and hidden hand theories acknowledge the existence of market failures, market imperfections and inefficiencies in the allocation of econ...

Business And Finance  business finance market economic utility
Could a Woman From a Small, Developing Country End the Stalemate in Climate Change Negotiations?

The feeble outcome of the December 2009 Climate change talks in Copenhagen was a huge disappointment for many. Now, however, the UN's appointment of Costa Rican Christiana Figueres as the new head of the Climate Change Convention (UNFCCC ) offe...

Environment  environment climate change food global environmental economic
Political-Economic Approach to Local Economic Development

The political-economic approach to local economic development is rooted in Marxist theory (Harvey, 1973). Although Marx never focused on urban economic development as a central theme, several of his followers have worked to develop a Marxist theory o...

Government  government development economic urban political shlay public
Summer’s Interest Rate Mystery

The end of the Spring brought an end to the Federal Reverse’s view interest rates need to positioned in a way of stimulating the economy. For most of the past few years interest rates consistently moved downward as the Federal Reserve launched an a...

Business And Finance  business finance rates term economic federal interest trade
Globalize to Survive

Globalize to SurviveByWilliam CatePublished September 2004[http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/][http://home.earthlink.net/~beowulfinvestments/globalvillageinvestmentclubwelcome/]Civilization in the 21st century is in serious trouble. Moder...

Business And Finance  business finance government economic rights assets
Online AdSense Businesses and Economic Development

Elected officials understand that they have few powers of their own to stimulate economic growth, that capital is becoming increasingly mobile, and that the citys creditors are deeply interested in knowing whether economic activity is on the upswing....

Online Business  online business public economic interests cities
Online Business Development: What Works?

The last quarter century has witnessed a steady decline in the positivist hegemony over social science scholarship. This has, of course, been welcome news to positivisms detractors, but the range of alternate theoretical and methodological perspectiv...

Online Business  online business development economic been
Prosperity, Community and Liberty

The fair and equitable distribution of public resources has been a pressing preoccupation, for those in quest of theoretical just as much as practical understanding, since Plato’s Republic. Calls for one or another notion of distributive equity hav...

Government  government development economic policy
The Vision to Prevail in an Economic Slowdown - Peripheral That Is

It's Spring. It's warming. In the last few weeks, the temperature at jump altitude has moderated. The blast of air as we roll up the door on the skydiving plane at 15,000 feet is no longer frigid. Two days ago, it was even a relatively mode...

Self Improvement And Motivation  self improvement motivation spring economic time itaposs
Immortality and Mortality in the Economic Sciences

rtality and Mortality in the Economic Sciences by: Sam Vaknin, Ph.D. Roberto Calvo Macias, a young author and thinker from Spain, once wrote to me that it is impossible to design a coherent philosophy of Economy without accounting for the (sad?)...

Business And Finance  business finance economic life human