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The traditional battle between labor and capital has been about the latter, with workers and owners fighting over their share of the pie.
The second study showed that high-net-worth African business owners accorded education the highest priority in their charitable activities, with more than 90% already engaging in education-related philanthropy.
Building the institutions of a market economy should be the main focus, not alignment with expensive EU standards in food production or the environment;The EU should gradually phase out its Common Agricultural Policy, which primarily benefits owners of large farms, and instead develop new instruments of financial assistance for its own poor regions and its new neighbours;Current EU members and successful candidate countries could make available large-scale training programmes in market-relevant disciplines for the young generation in CIS countries;Taking as a model the Stability Pact in the Balkans, the EU could offer concrete incentives, such as economic assistance and the prospect of closer integration, to stimulate parties to end unresolved regional conflicts in the Caucasus, Transdniestria and Central Asia;The main actors providing international assistance - including the World Bank, International Monetary Fund, EBRD, the EU itself and the United Nations Development Programme - should ensure a minimum level of co-ordination to avoid duplication and waste.
These are informal structures, even if they have owners and access to them is regulated.
A policy that leaves owners of risky financial assets impoverished is a policy that shuts down dynamism in the real economy.
Fostering a more dynamic, innovative SME sector that will produce tomorrow’s globally competitive large companies requires removing disincentives to growth, such as the inheritance-tax exemption for family-owned businesses, which rewards owners for keeping their businesses small.
Numerous honest owners of privatized firms and new private businesses are included.
In the early twentieth century, a congressional district’s rich landowners were likely to own the local banks as well, or to be related to, or friends with, bank owners.
White equity owners were required to sell shares to blacks in equity deals that were often highly leveraged and publicly financed.
Owners of capital control the means of production, which bestows on them power over labor.
Emancipation, as Tambo called it, implies the “return of the wealth of the country” – ownership of capital – to its rightful owners, either directly, or through a state that represents them.
But in Africa, this type of journalism has historically kept the media honest by forcing owners to focus more on public good than on profit.
It also means holding media owners accountable.
Before DFCU got involved, women accounted for 40% of small-business owners, but received only 10% of available credit.
From this perspective, the critic who exposes a fake Rembrandt does the world no favor: The owner of the picture suffers a loss, as perhaps do potential viewers, and the owners of genuine Rembrandts gain little.
Italian taxi drivers would be prepared to allow more competition if they were sure that Italian pharmacy owners were willing to do likewise.
As it stands, a lack of confidence in institutions is not only discouraging long-term investment; it is also driving roughly half of Latin America’s small-business owners to operate in the informal economy, thereby avoiding laws and taxes they believe will applied unfairly.
Supporters of such legislation – including advocates in the United States of a recently proposed Arizona law that would have permitted business owners to refuse service to gays on religious grounds – argue that it reflects an organic popular backlash against a threat to “traditional” values.
Where are our societies headed if company owners consider that quality is too expensive and that workers must be made insecure in order to make them less demanding?
For this reason, it is dangerous to maintain the outdated legal concept according to which a company belongs only to its owners or shareholders.
Car owners are an affluent, socially active, and easily organized group.
This is partly because, under the United Nations Convention on the Law of the Sea, which all of these countries have ratified, these outcroppings’ sovereign owners can claim a full 200-mile Exclusive Economic Zone (enabling sole exploitation of fisheries and oil resources) if they can sustain an economic life of their own.
Otherwise, sovereign owners can claim only 12 nautical miles of territorial waters.
The supposedly scientific evidence that government economic intervention is almost always counter-productive legitimized an enormous shift in the distribution of wealth, from industrial workers to the owners and managers of financial capital, and of power, from organized labor to business interests.
Under feudalism and slavery, suzerains and plantation owners grew enormously wealthy from the unremunerated work of serfs and slaves.
Various treasures have been unearthed from Tripoli mansions that were hastily vacated by their owners, and what happened to the tortured, the murdered, and the missing is beginning to be revealed.
Rather than imposing the costs of the ECB’s and EFSF’s losses on European taxpayers, the banks’ creditors could give up some of their claims in exchange for receiving shares from the banks’ owners.
Apart from avoiding the excess burden and injustice of taxation, they also have the benefit of inducing banks’ owners to choose a prudent investment strategy, while persuading creditors to scrutinize and select carefully the banks to which they want to lend.
The fact that Peabody Energy is still operating, and thus technically not stranded, is probably of little comfort to its owners.
But the long-term trends identified – a rise in capital owners’ share of income and the concentration of “primary income” (before taxes and transfers) at the very top of the distribution in the United States and other major economies – remain unchallenged.
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