We have already noted how metal cowries, of bronze or copper, were cast in China as symbols of objects already long accepted as money. A similar process took place with regard to spades, hoes and adzes (variants of the most common tools) and also of knives. The common characteristic of ...
Stiglitz is a mainstream globalist, but still honest enough to have becomedisillusioned with the corrupt practices of the IMF and the World Bank. His first-hand witness is very insightful:International bureaucrats - the faceless symbols of the world economic order - are underattack everywhere. ...
Institutional designs often reflect such lay beliefs about what motivates others85,91. For example, a survey asked Citibank managers around the world about their employees’ primary motivation99. Compared with their colleagues in Asia and Latin America, managers in the United States were more likely...
To facilitate the deal,the Swiss central bank offered UBS around $100 BILLION in liquidityto help it take on the operations of Credit Suisse, as well as $9 billion in guarantees against losses. Although Credit Suisse had been at the heart of several major financial scandals in recent years ...
Marx said: “There is a hidden possibility in the circulation of money, that is, the coinage function of metal money can be performed alternatively by tokens made of other materials or symbols.”“The purely symbolic nature is somewhat hidden in metal money tokens, but completely exposed in ...
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A nation is known by the way it treats its least powerful. That goes for state governments, too. I award 3 un-American symbols to all you politicians and sheriffs who sold your souls and appealed to the baser instincts of the slack-jawed members of your constituencies, in order to win ...
A detailed description of the symbols can be found in Appendix A. Table 2. Physical stock-flow matrix. Empty CellMaterial reservesNon-renewable energy reservesAtmospheric CO2 concentrationSocio-economic stockHazardous waste Opening stock REVM-1 REVE-1 CO2AT-1 SES−1 HWS−1 Additions to stock ...
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–How scientific truth is determined in the right wing world Mitchell’s laws: ●Those, who do not understand the differences betweenMonetary Sovereigntyand monetary non-sovereignty, do not understand economics. ●The more federal budgets are cut and taxes increased, theweaker an economy becomes.....