minority‚ shifted the emphasis from skilful work to credit-worthy consumption. The work is now done by automated processes at home in the domestic market and elsewhere in the global free-market via the intensified exploitation of people and their environment. Capitalists need consumers to buy products. To ensure that this facet of capitalism exists‚ social structures and processes have evolved which support and stimulate acquisitiveness in a specific social culture called the "consumer society" (Jones
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The environment is something you are very familiar with. It’s everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth—the air we breathe‚ the water that covers most of the earth’s surface‚ the plants and animals around us‚ and much more. In recent years‚ scientists have been carefully examining the ways that people affect the environment. They have found that we are causing air pollution‚ deforestation‚ acid rain‚ and other problems that are dangerous both to the
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Environment Environment may refer to: • Built environment‚ constructed surroundings that provide the setting for human activity‚ ranging from the large-scale civic surroundings to the personal places. • Environment (biophysical)‚ the physical and biological factors along with their chemical interactions that affect an organism. • Environment (systems)‚ the surroundings of a physical system that may interact with the system by exchanging mass‚ energy‚ or other properties • Environmental
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Economic Commentary About: Demand‚ Supply and Price Control Source of the article: Internet (business-standard.com) Name: Sang Hyun Jeon Section and Grade: 11 C Mentha oil rises on industrial demand Press Trust of India / New Delhi November 04‚ 2011‚ 12:04 IST Mentha oil prices rose by Rs 9.40 to Rs 1‚354.90 per kg in futures trade today‚ as traders enlarged their holdings tracking a rise in the industrial demand in spot markets. Restricted supply from the growing belts of Chandausi‚
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MGT 405 1. (10 pts) Because a government subsidy increases the number of mutually beneficial trades‚ it increases social welfare. Uncertain. A Subsidy is like an inverse tax. Consumers and producers benefit. The demand curve shifts down shifting the equilibrium‚ lower price for consumers and greater quantity sold for producers. Consumer surplus rises and producer surplus rises (area under the new price they receive). However the welfare is the sum of the new consumer surplus and the producer
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1. Plot the demand function Qd = 60 – 4P. 2. Plot the demand function Qs = 100 + 2P. 3. The annual demand and supply for coffee are given by Qd = 10‚000 – 50P Qs = 20P Where price is in dollars per 50-kilogram bag and quantity is in thousands of 50-kilogram bags. Calculate the equilibrium price and quantity in this market. 4. Assume a competitive market where demand is given by Qd = 980 – 90P while supply is given by Qs = 200 + 40P. It can be determined that the equilibrium price in this
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Sweetpotato (Ipomea batatas) is considered a staple crop in many considerable parts of Africa. According to FAOSTAT (2013)‚ sweet potato has been considered as the seventh important food crop in the world. Agriculture has become more market oriented and sweetpotato is one of the many crops that help farmers obtain income and subsistence food security (Wheatly and Loechl‚ 2008). Sweetpotato are mainly eaten as staple food‚ consumed directly from the farm in a subsistence economy across the sub-Saharan
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COUNSELLING MICROSKILLS: OVERVIEW IMCT© Skills to be trained • Counselling Microskills I The Four Corners Reflection of Feeling and Content Opening and Closing Questions 5-minute exercise I-Wish brainstorming Mind Maps • Counselling Microskills II Self-disclosure Advanced Accurate Empathy Immediacy Confrontation • Counselling Microskills III Summarization Goal Setting Therapeutic Alliance Suicidality and its Assessment Counselling Checklist THE FOUR CORNERS The Four
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For Profits: The Unethical Side of Micro-Lending The original principle of micro lending is to provide start-up or expansion business loans to people living in less advantaged or impoverished countries who are unable to apply for traditional loans due to lack of credit history and/or collateral. Micro-financing is a great tool to create venture capital for those who would have no other means to secure it. The primary goal of micro lending‚ as established by Muhammad Yunus‚ the godfather of microcredit
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ENVIRONMENT ISSUES TODAY There are considerable environmental issues that require urgent attention to make the ecology friendly. Climate change is changing our economy‚ health and communities in diverse ways. Scientists warn that if we do not aggressively curb climate change now‚ the results will likely be disastrous. Carbon dioxide and other global warming pollutants are collecting in the atmosphere like a thickening blanket‚ trapping the sun’s heat and causing the planet to warm up. In addition
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