...history will always bring about contrasting views on how something should work. The government’s role within a capitalist economy is debated by Milton Friedman and Mark Martinez, who each have different ideas on the level of involvement the government should play within this type of economy. Friedman believes the government’s role in a capitalist economy should be limited to the point of only acting as an “umpire” to the market (1970). Martinez, on the other hand, maintains that the essence of a capitalist economy is derived from the government’s active participation with the market (2009). In Milton Friedman’s Capitalism and Freedom, he outlines that the government’s responsibility in a capitalist economy should be limited to protecting our freedom from both an international and domestic standpoint, to maintain law and order, to uphold private contracts, and to look after competitive markets (1970). The Marxist view, given by Howard Sherman in Reclaiming Evolution, says “a pure market capitalist system means that you can buy anything, so there would be no limits on political spending” (2000:94). Friedman’s view on the government’s role understands the need for some government regulation to avoid things like limitless spending, but would have any intervention contain a meaningful purpose and a swift conclusion. Under the classical liberalism perception any additional government involvement or regulations, other than what is outlined above, would result in decreased freedom for the...
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...WE NEED GOVERNMENT? Do We Need Government? If so, What Should be its Role Abstract The topic of government has always been a large area of conflict. In the following, I will discuss why we need a government and I believe we do need a government. First, do we need government and if so, what role should be its role? I began my paper by addressing these questions by looking at the United States Constitution. “We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.” People are the ones working alongside government to carry out these mandates stated in this important document. Do We Need Government? If so, What Should be its Role Role of Government In responding to the questions Do we need government? If so, what should be its role?, my answer has to be yes. Thomas Paine’s quote, “Government, even in its best state, is but a necessary evil; in its worst state, an intolerable one.” (Paine, 1995) is as true today as it was during the Revolutionary War when he wrote it. In my opinion, we need government and the government needs us, so that Americans can continue to work together with government in harmony, to keep our country growing and developing. Our forefathers escaped to the New World, what is now the...
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...Media in America has long been a source to gain information on what is happening in the world. Of course, the media may have conflicting roles for instance, it is a main source of information and it also provides entertainment with the hopes of generating some type of profit. In addition, the media is not exempt from government regulation and must adhere to federal laws. With this in mind, the focus of this essay is to explore the way government regulates the media and how they attempt to regulate the internet. As a result, I will also mention if I personally agree with federal government regulating the internet. In any case, why should the media be forced to regulate under the federal government in the first place? To begin with, the aspects of the Federal Government to regulate the mass media involve technical considerations, ownership, and content. Moreover, in 1934, Congress passed the Federal Communications Act which in turn, created the Federal Communications Commissions. Subsequently, the Federal Communications Commission is an independent federal agency that regulates interstate and international communication by radio, television, telephone, telegraph, cable and satellite. Consequently, the FCC contained certain powers to regulate the media by...
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...What Is My Role in Managing the Contract? Introduction Introduction Approximate Length: 1 hour 45 minutes Welcome to the What Is My Role in Managing the Contract? lesson. Upon completion of the lesson you will be able to answer these questions: What Is the COR's Role in Contract Administration? Why Should the COR Talk with the KO? What Makes Up a Contract? What Else Might I Encounter When Dealing with a Contract? Print Version For a printer friendly version of this lesson, select the icon on the left. To print a single page, select the 'Print' button at the top of the screen. Page 1 of 41 Review the lesson learning objectives. Recognize the basic information (period of performance, Performance Work Statement (PWS), contract value) found in a contract to include the uniform contract format. Identify methods of tracking contract obligations using Accounting Classification Requirements Number (ACRNS) and Contract Line Item Numbers (CLINs) in a contract. Recognize the COR’s role in tracking the contract schedule. Analyze contract schedule compliance, to include all Statement of Work (SOW) requirements and Contract Deliverable Requirements List (CDRL) deliverables. What Is My Role in Managing the Contract? Introduction Know Your Contract Page 2 of 41 Animated Vignette Alternative Note: The animated vignette does not employ the use of audio. Please select the Next button when the animated vignette is complete. What Is My Role in Managing the Contract? What Is...
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...individuals and communities are at the end of the day responsible for their own empowerment, external inputs too have value. In this lecture we will be discussing characteristics of an empowered community over time; community’s role in its own development; and also the role of external input, especially that of people’s government, in this empowerment process. 7.2 Objectives By the end of this lecture, you should be able to a) explain the characteristics of an empowered community b) discuss the role of the people in their won empowerment; and c) discuss what should be the role of the government (and donors) in support of the people in their own empowerment. 7.3 Characteristics of an empowered community There are four characteristics that an empowered person or community should display. These characteristics are progressive in their arrangement and hence it should be easy to remember them. The four characteristics are a) the ability to understand one’s reality and to analyze the factors that shape that reality; b) the ability to decide what one wants to be; c) the willingness to act to change the situation for the better; and d) the ability to ensuring sustainability of those efforts. Let us now consider these one by one. As we have said previously, you should not be surprised to discover that you have covered some of these facts in one way or another during previous lectures. 7.3.1 The ability to understand one’s reality and to analyze the factors that shape that reality Many times...
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...ITR 201 – Internnational Business Assignment – Closing Case: Debating the Merits of Globalization Case Questions 1. Do you think globalization and MNE activities are creating problems for the world? What kinds of problems can you identify? What are the unintended consequences of international business? 2. Summarise the argument in favour of globalization made by the business executive. What is the role of technology in supporting company performance in a global business environment? 3. What are the roles of the states and federal governments in dealing with globalization. What is government’s role in protecting citizens from the negative effect of foreign MNEs conducting business in your country ? What kinds of government actions would you recommend? 4. What is the role of education? i) addressing the problems raised in the roundtable ii) creating societies in which people can deal with public policy issues and iii) creating citizens who can compete effectively in the global marketplace. Answers 1. I think globalization and MNE activities are causing problems for the world. Some of the problems that are obvious include the influences some of the Global companies have on some countries governments especially developing countries. They use their powers to manipulate activities in those countries. Another problem is the loss of national sovereignty, many countries lose their own cultural dresses, foods e.t.c due to the globalization and MNE. Finally...
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...American legal system by defining the different roles of the federal and state governments; and 2. Describe the Supremacy Clause and explain what happens when there is a direct conflict between federal and state law. Structure of your assignment: When writing an assignment, organization and logic should be your key components. Before you begin, you should keep the following basic rules in mind: 1. Double space throughout 2. Use Times New Roman size 12 font 3. Do not have blue citations in any part of your paper/assignment/submission. If you copy and paste your link, hover your mouse over the top of the link, right click…a vertical dropdown list will come up. Select remove hyperlink. Space and the link should be black. 4. Be sure to use hanging indents where needed in your reference page. The following will help you with hanging indents. (Note: you may also use The Owl at Purdue.) http://libguides.css.edu/APA6thEd/APAFormatting 5. Be sure to have an APA formatted cover page. 6. Note that your reference page and cover page are ‘not’ to be included in the amount of pages required for your assignment 7. Your submission is to be 2-3 pages, plus the cover sheet, and plus the reference page, for a total of 4-5 pages. 8. Do not use first person (I or my) in your submission. It takes away from the appearance of being neutral. Writing in the third person should be used in formal writing like this research paper...
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...and values are essential to success, an employee is the most valuable assets a firm can have (Mayhew, para. 1). For a business to keep running, its people must be fully engaged and satisfied with their work. According to Infographic by Bullhorn: “dissatisfied or neutral employees ranked having a bad boss as one of the top five reasons” (Lewis, 2012, para. 1). The management team should take the first step in understanding the reasons for their employees’ dissatisfaction. Core Canadian values, as defined by the citizens themselves are the foundation for the social contract. The social contract reframes the roles for government, citizens, business and the communities. Citizens insist that political leaders continue to be responsible for pooling economic, social and public safety risks on behalf of the citizens. This is important for the role for the citizens that are highly valued; who are contributing to a “working society” for without this, Canadians will not be able to maintain or improve their quality of life (MacKinnon, 2004, p. v-vi). This explains that the government plays a key role in structuring values in the society and in the workplace for the wellbeing of its...
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...overbearing state to control us. Jeremy Bentham argued that the state should only intervene in cases in which an individual’s freedom imposes upon another’s. However the modern liberal T.H Green suggested that people have a natural desire to enhance others’ welfare as well as their own. Modern liberals have a more optimistic view of human nature. Hence, people’s egoism is tempered with a sense of social responsibility. Therefore according to modern liberals this philanthropic instinct suggests that the state should help those in need, enabling them to achieve the same fulfillment as others through the provision of state welfare. Therefore liberals agree on the primacy of the individual and in the pursuit of maximum freedom but they are divided over the role of the state to achieve these. Liberals disagree about the concept of liberty, and as a result the liberal ideal of protecting individual liberty can lead to very different conceptions of the task of government. Classical Liberals believe in negative freedom. This conception of freedom is ‘negative’ in that it is based on the absence of external constrains on the individual. Consequently the state is regarded as a ‘necessary evil’. Evil in that it imposes collective will on society thereby limiting the freedom of the individual but necessary in that, it lays down the conditions for orderly existence. Classical Liberals thus believe in a minimal state whose legitimate role is limited to the protection of ‘life, liberty and...
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...During 1500-1600 the church had many roles in the lives of the people and in the government. The church ran everything which made it very powerful and controlling. Since the church was so powerful and controlling, people had faith in it and were willing to devote time and money to the church. Throughout the Renaissance the power of the church began to decline rapidly. Although the role of the church changed throughout the Renaissance it was the base to everything in this time period, such as art, literature, poetry, and government, etc. Since the role of the church changed during the Renaissance everything the church was involved in also changed. Art was being controlled by the church during and before the Italian Renaissance. Every piece...
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...is today playing a decisive role in corporate governance. But what does CSR actually mean? It can be defined as the company’s responsibility towards the environment and society. However, businesses have the primary ambition to maximize profits, which sounds in a first way difficult to combine with CSR, at least in a short-term view. Correspondingly, we could ask ourselves to what extend CSR should be totally voluntary work of companies, or in other words, what role should the government play in business, particularly in relation to social and environmental responsibility? Government certainly has to interfere in business concerning CSR, because it affects not only the companies but the whole society. But how far is government really able to influence, and owing to which measures? First of all, companies are often pushed by their own greed of gain, difficult to combine with social and ecological responsibility, which makes an intervening of the government indispensable. Influenced by shareholders and their rational desire of obtaining high returns, companies are supposed to think in a short way and do often not recognize the necessity and also the opportunities of CSR in their company. However, recent studies clearly indicated that a corporation’s commitment concerning social and environmental aspects has a positive impact on productivity of employees on the one hand and on the company’s reputation on the other hand. Therefore the government, which naturally profits from...
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...through which people make, preserve and amend the general rules under which they live. Politics is the process of who gets what, when, and how. Lastly, politics is a process of allocating scarce values.2 Various theorists and concepts define what the role of politics is in order to help us get a better understanding of how the study of politics is useful. Politics help us to understand the relationship between the government and the state’s minority citizens. Plato, the student of Socrates, defined politics in his own way. The ideal government proposed by Plato was the adherence of each individual to “universally valid principles” aimed at improving the lives of all the citizens instead of increasing power, prestige, or material wealth of a select few. Plato believed that this ideal government would be ran by individuals ho were full of wisdom and virtue instead of charisma and cunning. This is because in Athenian democracy, leaders were irrationally chosen based on irrelevant details such as family background, wealth, good looks, and persuasive speech. Being that Plato was born a aristocrat, he believed the common or average citizen was incapable of thinking and reasoning intelligently enough to make decisions about governmental affairs. Plato believed that only the most wise and intelligent should rule the state and each individual be allowed to do what he or she was best qualified to do...
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...GOVERNMENT OF INDIA MINISTRY OF EDUCATION THE ROLE OF GOVERNMENT OF INDIA IN EDUCATION By J. P. NAIK 1.One of the major educational controversies today refers to the role of the Government of India in education. Prima facie education is a State subject. Entry 11 of the List II of the Seventh Schedule to the Constitution lays down that “education including universities, subject to the provisions of Entries 63, 64, 65 and 66 of List I and Entry 25 of List III” should be a State subject. But there are some other provisions in the Constitution itself which contradict the almost absolute delegation of authority suggested by this entry in the State list; and what is even more significant, the Central Government has since shown an unprecedented activity and interest in the field of education ever since the attainment of independence. In 1947, it appointed a University Commission and has since been engaged in evolving common policies in Higher education such as the introduction of the three-year degree course. This was followed by a Secondary Education Commission which tried to introduce a number of uniform trends in a field where the Centre has had hardly any constitutional authority. No Commission was appointed in the field of Primary education. But the scheme of Basic education was declared to have gone beyond the stage of experimentation and was also adopted as the national pattern at the Elementary stage. The interest of the Central Government in Technical education and...
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...(competitors) and supply. The basic element of the market (consumers – producers – demand – supply) is freedom, each consumer and producer chooses freely what to buy and what to produce, as a result a healthy and natural competition. Freedom makes demand and supply more efficient because production methods are focused to maximize profits, by using the resources efficiently. The essential part of this system is that competition is automatic and balanced, not controlled by external factors. Adam Smith and various liberal thinkers support that the economic system and competition of any country or area should work like this; without manipulating any of the factors that affect demand and supply, in order to create the best profit in the market and utilize resources efficiently. Mercantilism supports the prosperity o a nation, the nation authorities or government is responsible of the capital supply. Capital is supported by bullion (example gold) which creates a positive and “healthy” balance trade among nations. Mercantilism supports government as the “father” of the market, where they must protect certain actors as producers or consumers in order to achieve a balance in the economy. Therefore the point of view of the mercantilists brings as a result unfair competition, compared to the liberals, certain mechanisms of government do not let the market flow and work for themselves, thus creating gaps. Because of these deficiencies the market is no able use resources efficiently...
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