Institutions
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But thanks to the diversity, we've got around 500 amazing Rembrandt object artworks from 46
institutions
and 17 countries.
That is your itinerary, you will probably travel 53,000 kilometers, visit around, I think, 46 institutions, and just FYI, you might release 10 tons of CO2 emissions.
Nonviolent struggle works by destroying an opponent, not physically, but by identifying the
institutions
that an opponent needs to survive, and then denying them those sources of power.
We always felt that this was something that could be done through partnerships with governments, industry, educational institutions, a myriad of other companies and, frankly, even competitors.
The reason journalists are scared of technology is this: the profession's largest
institutions
are going through tough times because of the changing way that people are consuming news.
And this has plunged journalism into crisis, forcing those
institutions
to reexamine how they function.
Now when this works, it's because there are large
institutions
underwriting every 1 or 0 that changes on a computer.
And when it doesn't, it's often the fault of those large
institutions.
These
institutions
are standing in the way of innovation.
The same thing happens when
institutions
control the money supply.
In a digital world, money can reach much farther and is much faster, but we're at the mercy of these gatekeeper
institutions.
When we combine software and currency, money becomes more than just a static unit of value, and we don't have to rely on
institutions
for security.
In a programmable world, we remove humans and
institutions
from the loop.
With programmable money, we decouple the need for large, trusted
institutions
from the architecture of the network.
We have weak institutions, and sometimes nonexistent institutions, and I think this gives way for corruption.
We have to create those
institutions.
According to research on the worldwide investments in cluster munitions producers by Pax, a Dutch-based NGO, financial
institutions
invested billions of US dollars into companies that make cluster munitions.
The majority of these
institutions
are based in countries that have not yet signed the Convention on Cluster Munitions.
This period, though, was also marked by widespread nonviolent organizing in the forms of strikes, sit-ins and the creation of parallel
institutions.
And all of us need policies that protect us from exploitation by employers and financial
institutions.
It's widely talked about how trust in
institutions
and many corporate brands has been steadily declining and continues to do so.
It would be easy to conclude that institutional trust isn't working because we are fed up with the sheer audacity of dishonest elites, but what's happening now runs deeper than the rampant questioning of the size and structure of
institutions.
Whether it's the World Trade Organization or it's the IMF, the World Bank, the Bretton Woods Accord on currency, these were American institutions, our values, our friends, our allies, our money, our standards.
They've studied the
institutions
that facilitate our trade, like legal systems, corporations, marketplaces.
Now, one of the first people to really explore the idea of
institutions
as a tool in economics to lower our uncertainties about one another and be able to do trade was the Nobel economist Douglass North.
And what he meant by
institutions
were really just formal rules like a constitution, and informal constraints, like bribery.
These
institutions
are really the grease that allow our economic wheels to function, and we can see this play out over the course of human history.
As our societies grew more complex and our trade routes grew more distant, we built up more formal institutions,
institutions
like banks for currency, governments, corporations.
These
institutions
helped us manage our trade as the uncertainty and the complexity grew, and our personal control was much lower.
Eventually with the internet, we put these same
institutions
online.
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