PPT-Economy

Week of 1052015 Journal Prompt Examine your clothes and make a like of Made In country it was made in Answer the following questions How do you benefit from being able to buy clothes made in other countries. Olga . Ponizova. ,. Eco-Accord, Russia. oponizova@rambler.ru. Topics:. To share . thoughts on green economy and its importance for BRICS;. To share thoughts on . climate change process and . BRICS. m. atching long-term ambitions . with short-term actions . Dr. Hans . Bruyninckx. EEA Executive Director. Bratislava, 23 October 2014. The 7th EAP: a long term vision of sustainability . “In 2050, . Megatrends: the collisions. August 2014. www.pwc.co.uk. The Sharing Economy: Key Messages. The ‘sharing economy’ uses . digital platforms. to allow customers to have . access. to, rather than ownership of, tangible and intangible assets. This . Horizon?. Aleksandar. (Sasha) . Tomic. , Ph.D.. Trends to watch. DEMOGRAPHIC. Influx of population into SE . US. Aging. Immigration (and non-immigrants). ECONOMIC. US Economy. Labor Market. Oil prices. Markets. Market. - an arrangement that allows buyers and sellers to exchange things.. Markets exist because no one is self-sufficient. Each of us produces just one or a few products. Specialization. Government Intervention. In a market economy, individuals (businesses, corporations, etc) , along with the forces of supply and demand, answer the basic problem of scarcity.. However, there are many cases in free market economies where the government has chosen to become involved in the economy.. Problems with our economy. What is an economy . Economy - An . Economy is the wealth and resource of a country or region.. . Our U.S. Economy 6 years ago was at a stable stand point. Over the past 6 years we have dealt with some of the hardest times in our U.S. history with a huge decrease of our economy. We are at an all time low in this year of 2012. millions are out of jobs, millions are homeless, we are in $16 trillion dollars of debt, and it is hard to think things will be getting any better.. Cass R. Sunstein. What Are We Worried About?. Consumer savings? Money? Time? (“Internalities” vs. . externalities.). Greenhouse gas emissions?. Other air pollutants?. Energy security?. Anything else?. The Nazi Economy. This section of the course examines how Hitler and the Nazis tried to help the German economy recover when they came to power. . There are three questions you can be asked to discuss : . Where are we?. Circular. . Economy. Nature says : Matter Matters. What do Belgium and Wallonia say?. Are we there Yet?. Circular. . Economy. In Belgium : 95% of ALL paper products and packaging ( including plastics and metals) is collected, sorted and recycled locally or not. Dr. John Barry. Queens University Belfast. j.barry@qub.ac.uk. Basic co-ordinating institutions of human society. (Nation)-State . – 300-400 years. Market . – ‘truck and barter’ (c.12,000 years/settled agriculture), modern industrial/capitalist economy (c.250 years). Chapter 16. Section . 1: . Government . Intervention in the Economy. Our U.S. economy is a . capitalistic. economy. . Private . citizens . own. and use the factors of production to seek a profit.. Aim: To explain (B) the ways that the Nazis tried to strengthen the economy and evaluate (A) the extent to which it was successful. How did the Nazis deal with Germany’s economic problems?. Labour Service & public works. iophysical. EQUILIBRIUM AND MORAL GROWTH - . Daly. Daly, Herman . (editor).. . Toward a Steady-State Economy. . Freeman. San Francisco 1973. pp 149-174. Ben . Kreisman. ; Ecological Economics. Fragmentation of knowledge and people by excessive specialization.