Economics - October 2006

Upgrading into a knowledge economy requires a different mindset. Encouraging this mindset, however, defy cultural and social value, and norms. Discuss. Relate to the Singapore context.

2006-10-08 06:42:59 · 1 answers · asked by hye212 1

2006-10-08 06:30:49 · 7 answers · asked by Anonymous

Cures for the great depression

2006-10-08 04:57:44 · 3 answers · asked by JenDaSkeetleManiac 1

Republicans and Democrats
They are all crooks,they have been there to long

2006-10-08 04:30:47 · 7 answers · asked by beaujeff1 1

I'm not complaining, just curious, after staying in a hotel in Andover recently where all the staff were from other countries - mostly Portugal, I'd guess. They were perfectly competent, charming and helpful, but I did wonder why local young people were not used. What benefits do hoteliers gain by employing youngsters from other countries?

2006-10-08 04:13:30 · 14 answers · asked by mad 7

Q: Suppose in a change from State A to State B the sum of compensating varations (CV) is positive. In addition, the sum of equivalent variations (EV) is negative. If actual compenstation is paid to losers, is it true that social welfare will increase regardless of income? Explain with any assumptions you need to make.

A: So, for example, say if total CV is +10 and EV is -15...I guess the overall social welfare decreased by -5? Therefore, it is false that social welfare will increase regardless of the distribution of income? Is this even right? I'm just trying to guess a bit here...

2006-10-08 03:45:29 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I was hurt while I was in high school I would like to work, I need something to do, Help!

2006-10-08 03:42:47 · 3 answers · asked by Carrie L 1

1] is it true that everyone is a money-fool relative to the most money-cunning person?

[eg, the foolish ppl [virtually 100% of ppl] who allowed the moneysupply to go into private hands - ie, free license to pump money endlessly into their private accounts - they know when the supply is going up and down, so they know when to buy and sell, an inside-trader's dream]

2] is parting a fool and his money theft, injustice, overpay, money without work? - is overpay political overpower, eroding democracy? - is overpower power to steal, to legalise thefts, to foment wars for profit, to use millions as cannonfodder. to legally steal by any method the ppl havent cottoned on to, or that u can hide -

does overpay [money without work] create underpay [work without money, wageslavery] creates righteous anger creates violence destroys safety peace happiness freedom democracy and the state, which is not in yr interests, therefore immoral?

greed = theft + selfdeception?

greed = enemy??

2006-10-08 03:27:17 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

1] is it true that everyone is a money-fool relative to the most money-cunning person?

[eg, the foolish ppl [virtually 100% of ppl] who allowed the moneysupply to go into private hands - ie, free license to pump money endlessly into their private accounts - they know when the supply is going up and down, so they know when to buy and sell, an inside-trader's dream]

2] is parting a fool and his money theft, injustice, overpay, money without work? - is overpay political overpower, eroding democracy? - is overpower power to steal, to legalise thefts, to foment wars for profit, to use millions as cannonfodder. to legally steal by any method the ppl havent cottoned on to, or that u can hide -

does overpay [money without work] create underpay [work without money, wageslavery] creates righteous anger creates violence destroys safety peace happiness freedom democracy and the state, which is not in yr interests, therefore immoral?

greed = theft + selfdeception?

greed = enemy??

2006-10-08 03:26:31 · 3 answers · asked by Anonymous

[u s senate committee in 1950s said big business was more powerful than the us govt - eisenhower warning against military-industrial complex - ?kennedy killed for opposing defense budget, fed reserve - robber baron opposition to anti-trust laws - league of nations formed to try to stop arms dealers fomenting wars]

what if there is legal theft? [monopolies, manufactured scarcity, manufactured oversupply of labour, insider trading, capital gains, inheritance, gambling] - money without work is theft [overpay] causing work without money [underpay], causing [righteous] anger, causing violence [war and crime], which must escalate endlessly, leading to nuclear winter [soon, unless we wake]

avarice is a very popular error [ie, false happiness strategy] - legal can mean merely that people are still ignorant of an evil - there had to hav been a time before people understood that a law against murder would be good

overpay = 99% underpay + war + crime, but ppl stll thnk wealth is good

2006-10-08 02:28:38 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-08 01:58:55 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

th fnding fathers, first thing after signing decl of ind, prohibtd entail & primogeniture, fixed clergy salaries [see letter jeff to adams, oct 28, 1813] to limit fortunes - they believed limitatn of fortunes is essential for capitalism, democracy, justice, survival, law, order, liberty - everything good - they were against wealth concentration - they warned that the corporation would get round their provisions to prevent wlth cncntrtn

they knew that money is power, & therefore huge fortunes are overpower, unjust, theft, monopolous, corruption, and tyrannous - they fled tyrannies, they wanted to establish liberty, they knew that superwealth = superpower = tyranny = warmongering, cannonfoddering of the people

overpower is power to steal & kill [war, conquer, plunder] with impunity, home & abroad - overpower is above the law & govt, buying, owning law & govt

monoply = pricegouging = theft [causes boom & bust, depressions]

ovrpay = undrpay = starvtn, war [kills 100mn/yr]

2006-10-08 01:52:48 · 4 answers · asked by Anonymous

everyone 'knows' that billionaires make money, but is it true?
all the money stands for all the work - no wrk, no products, money worthless - twice the wrk, same money, money buys twice as much wrk [products, wealth] - but in transaction [exchange, deals, trade], the workvalues of the items HAVE to be diffrnt, ie x and x+y, so transactn HAS to be fair exchange no robbery [x for x] plus 'robbery' [=y]

y can be large - eg, monoply prices - eg, new technolgy [demand high, spply small [indstry gearing up]] - eg, land, whch is monopolistic, called by economists a right of private taxation, eg, close the commons, herd workers into cities, cheap labour - eg, preventing import of grain in famine, big profits - eg, making big farms instead of small farms to reduce output [small farms 16 times more productive, eg, china & sudan, 30 times agri. efficiency of usa]

billionaires are the effect of big y's, ie robberies

they own 1000s times more prdcts [gds servcs] than they create - no?

2006-10-08 01:03:00 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

it seems false when put this way

what if the people want to outlaw murder?

so it seems the people have a right, indeed a duty, in their pursuit of happiness, to outlaw things they think are bad

but what if the people decide that unlimited fortunes are bad [as they should have done 1000s of years ago, imo, as unlimited fortunes kill 1000s of times more than murder does]

ppl argue that if the people want to outlaw unlimited fortunes, it is wrong, it is invasion of liberty

but what if the people decide [realise, as the founding fathers did, and as every wise person did] that unlimited fortunes are theft, tyranny, the death of democracy, justice, order, law, freedom, peace, happiness, the state [and now, thanks to e=mc2, all humans and all life]

what if the people realise that 'the state built on injustice cannot stand' [roman], that 'equality breeds no strife' [athenian], 'power corrupts' [or: the corrupt seek wealth-power more ardently], the powerful break the law?

2006-10-08 00:17:55 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

After all we know it is profitable. We should get some of the benefits. Perhaps as a community or cooperative we can make ourselves some CA$H as well. Time is running out and prices of goods and services are rising. We would also be doing the nation a great service by paying the Nat'l War Debt. Let's really stimulate the economy and get the US rolling again. With the left over money we could inverst in a lobby or more!

This would be truly maxmizing on the entrepenurial spirit. We could get very rich. Now let's get those ideas out there. I talking business to you. Square,square, square, business.

You know when Mr. Opportunity knocks and you do not answer, you see his sister, Miss Fortune.

There must be something we can sell to make this happen.

We will call ourselves the Yahoo War Profiteers & Nat'l Debt Payers Group. A mouthful you say? I am open to better suggestions. My requriement is a mere 23 1/2% of the take!

2006-10-08 00:10:25 · 3 answers · asked by LeBlanc 6

some ppl unreally argue that 'if th $15/hr person's skills, talents, knowldge are worth more, they'll get paid more' - ie, they believe that pay is proportnl to merit [in capitalism], and critcsm of others' high pay is envy [not a sense of justce]

is this because these ppl are still thinkng in a hunter-gatherer mindset? ie, are they thinkng: if a person is more successful in the hunt, then it is only envy to resent it, and unjust to think you have a right to part of it? ie, they are still thinking in terms of a pre- job-specialisatn- trading- pooling- money society? - we had to trade when we specialised in jobs - and money came along to facilitate trade - effectively wealth [products of work] are pooled - but trade introduced the imp of transaction [workvalue of items traded HAVE to be diff, richgetricher] causing ever-escalating violence, violence [war and weaponry] and injustice growing for 1000s of yrs, culminating soon in nuclear winter, universal death

our root error???????

2006-10-07 23:47:54 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

What are the positive and negative aspects of the employees, managers, and directors of their relationship with business ??

2006-10-07 23:12:29 · 1 answers · asked by kindle_beauty24 1

2006-10-07 22:03:56 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous

2006-10-07 22:03:35 · 3 answers · asked by punnu m 1

give some information too.

2006-10-07 19:14:46 · 2 answers · asked by nitin j 1

plzz give me more photos with details also

2006-10-07 18:39:35 · 1 answers · asked by vik 1

The short-run elasticity of demand for gasoline is estimated to be about 0.11, but the long-run elasticity is about 0.9. Explain, based on the determinants of elasticity, why the short-run elasticity is so low (inelastic), but why elasticity is far higher (though still inelastic) in the long run.

2006-10-07 18:09:02 · 1 answers · asked by youthebest 2

work hard for normal amounts of money? - does it seem utterly mad to you that people being paid $15 an hour are not bothered by people being paid $150 an hour, $1500 an hr, $15,000 an hr, $150,000 an hr, $1,500,000 an hr, $15,000,000 an hour?

[bill gates, 1998, paid $18,000,000,000, = $27 billion in 2006 dollars = average of $1 billion per fortnight = $10,000,000 an hr, means peaks up to circa $15 million - bill gates av income US$500,000, for every hr he has worked]

i would think that people's sense of justice and injustice would be activated and outraged by $150 an hr - after all, who can work 10 times harder per hr? - but people arent bothered by A MILLION TIMES AVERAGE PAY

how can this be?

plus the fact that money is power, so someone being paid a million times average has a million times as much political power - ie, undemocratic, above the law, corrupt [eg, buying judges, buying politicians, buying hitmen, 'enforcers']

the law: like spiders webs - th grt brk thru

2006-10-07 12:56:35 · 6 answers · asked by Anonymous

Is it realistic to believe that energy conservation can solve eminent electricity shortages, gasoline shortages, and water shortages?

2006-10-07 10:41:43 · 6 answers · asked by EmAnnEm 1

...apart from reducing the unemployment figures, and increasing time for families to interact, it would also prevent accidents due to tiredness, who agrees with these sentiments?

2006-10-07 09:26:06 · 19 answers · asked by chris s 3

2006-10-07 08:38:40 · 12 answers · asked by SpaceMonkey 1

these days there is much talk on India as the fastes growing economy and being the leading economy soon .My worry is do the people who make these statements judge economies on the basis of output and population size . If INDIA will get 100bn more than the leading ecnomies , do they consider the nature of $ they will have to spend on welfare in relation to their geographical and demographic size?

2006-10-07 08:21:46 · 2 answers · asked by Anonymous

I am curious.... To further clarify question, the consumption, per amount of people consuming, in a given size area (state) and of course location. I know it is a cold weather state. I can only guess...

2006-10-07 07:52:19 · 1 answers · asked by Anonymous

Can someone please tell me how the Real GDP affects the DELL corporation and the computer and technology industry as a whole? Thank you.

2006-10-07 02:59:19 · 2 answers · asked by Kira H 1

Can someone tell me how the real GDP affects the DELL corporation and the computer and technology industry as a whole?

2006-10-07 02:53:36 · 1 answers · asked by Kira H 1