Market
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After all, in a totally free labor market, we could find jobs for pretty much everyone.
Because it is a bit of a niche market, and there's not much work going on, especially where I'm from.
As I say, we go in and shake up other industries, and I think, you know, we do it differently and I think that industries are not quite the same as a result of Virgin attacking the
market.
This is the
market
leader in malware distribution, the Black Hole Exploit Pack, responsible for nearly one third of malware distribution in the last couple of quarters.
They had to look at computer projections for the housing
market.
At this moment I knew, clicking profile after profile that looked like this, that I needed to do some
market
research.
It's happening, the recourse to
market
mechanisms and
market
thinking and
market
solutions, in bigger arenas.
We've drifted almost without realizing it from having a
market
economy to becoming
market
societies.
The difference is this: A
market
economy is a tool, a valuable and effective tool, for organizing productive activity, but a
market
society is a place where almost everything is up for sale.
It's a way of life, in which
market
thinking and
market
values begin to dominate every aspect of life: personal relations, family life, health, education, politics, law, civic life.
Why worry about our becoming
market
societies?
There's a second reason apart from the worry about inequality, and it's this: with some social goods and practices, when
market
thinking and
market
values enter, they may change the meaning of those practices and crowd out attitudes and norms worth caring about.
I'd like to take an example of a controversial use of a
market
mechanism, a cash incentive, and see what you think about it.
Some economists have proposed a
market
solution: Offer cash incentives to kids for getting good grades or high test scores or for reading books.
And people disagree about what the effect will be, but that seems to be the question, that somehow a
market
mechanism or a cash incentive teaches the wrong lesson, and if it does, what will become of these children later?
In those domains, bringing
market
mechanisms and cash incentives may undermine or crowd out nonmarket values and attitudes worth caring about.
In fact, during the past three decades, when
market
reasoning and
market
thinking have gathered force and gained prestige, our public discourse during this time has become hollowed out, empty of larger moral meaning.
It's capitalism as it was ultimately meant to be, meeting important needs, not incrementally competing for trivial differences in product attributes and
market
share.
It's no surprise, then, that even at the depths of the private capitalism crisis, President Obama said, "The question before us is not whether the
market
is a force for good or ill.
The other option is for the West to cooperate, and by cooperating I mean giving the emerging
market
countries the flexibility to figure out in an organic way what political and economic system works best for them.
Well, one way to express choice is through the
market.
The great Indian economist, Amartya Sen, was awarded the Nobel prize for demonstrating that famine is not so much about the availability of food supply, but rather the ability to acquire or entitle oneself to that food through the
market.
He comes to the
market
when prices are lowest, with the meager fruits of his hard labor, just after the harvest, because he has no choice.
Well, we don't need, now, any more Nobel prizes to know that farmers want a fair shake at the
market
and want to make money, just like everyone else.
We know from our work around the continent that transaction costs of reaching the market, and the risks of transacting in rural, agriculture markets, are extremely high.
In fact, only one third of agricultural output produced in Africa even reaches the
market.
Africa's markets are weak not only because of weak infrastructure in terms of roads and telecommunications, but also because of the virtual absence of necessary
market
institutions, such as
market
information, grades and standards, and reliable ways to connect buyers and sellers.
I have measured that 26 percent of the marketing margin is simply due to the fact that, because of the absence of grades and standards and
market
information, sacks have to be constantly changed.
In fact, in my view, there is no region of the world and no period in history that farmers have been expected to bear the kind of
market
risk that Africa's farmers have to bear.
This kind of
market
risk is mind-boggling, and has direct implications for not only the incentives of farmers to invest in higher productivity technology, such as modern seeds and fertilizers, but also direct implications for food security.
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