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Everyone stood to benefit: the companies would profit handsomely, while Iraq would gain new technology and vast sums to rebuild the country’s devastated infrastructure.
Additionally, prosperous countries and oil-producing states should phase out their carbon-dioxide emissions no later than the middle of the century; turn away from “unethical profit from the environment”; and invest in a green economy.
Profit margins have expanded to record highs as companies have cut costs, delayed infrastructure investments, borrowed at ultra-low rates, and taken advantage of weak labor markets to avoid raising wages.
This means that an increase in real wages for workers will have the most immediate impact, even if the downside is lower profit margins for corporate America.
Panama’s annual GDP growth averaged 8.2%, despite the fact that it did not profit directly from the commodity bonanza that benefited Colombia and much of South America.
Profit maximization does not guarantee a reasonable distribution of income or a safe planet.
Under the current constitution, local governments have the right to exploit (and profit directly from) oil extracted from new sites beneath their territory, while only a share of the income from existing sites must go to Iraq’s central government.
But when lots of easy money pushed by a deep-pocketed government comes into contact with the profit motive of a sophisticated, competitive, and amoral financial sector, matters get taken far beyond the government’s intent.
Who benefits from evidence that an industry is too concentrated, its profit margins are too high, and consumers are being ripped off?
True, the blind pursuit of profit is not the invention of any one people.
As Dani Rodrik has well put it: “If economics were only about profit maximization, it would be just another name for business administration.
They could profit from smartphones with simple adaptations that can be used in a range of health-screening tests (for example, for cardiovascular disease, HIV and other pathogens, or malaria), with the results being sent straight to hospitals for an immediate response.
The G20 and the OECD have already outlined measures to counter tax-avoidance methods such as base erosion and profit shifting.
So even if companies do invest in breakthrough drugs, cheaper options will soon be available, reducing profit margins considerably.
He aggressively challenged the prevailing international system of profit sharing between oil-producing countries and foreign companies, which had allowed the companies to control crude oil’s “posted price,” from which their fees to the government were derived.
Some 14 countries, including Senegal, are involved in the implementation of the Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project, which seeks to create greater transparency in taxation regimes.
Second, the profits and earnings of corporations and financial institutions will not rebound as fast as the consensus predicts, as weak economic growth, deflationary pressures, and surging defaults on corporate bonds will limit firms’ pricing power and keep profit margins low.
“In every major religion, a version of the following question is asked: what does it profit us to gain wealth and power if we lose our moral values?
Similarly, for Greece (and Europe more widely), it defies logic to allow private investors to profit today from the destruction of the political economies required to generate tomorrow’s wealth.
As long as powerful financial actors profit from this short-sighted approach, insufficient financing will flow toward developing and deploying renewable energy.
In the popular mind, science is blamed for deadly weapons and environmental pollution, even if the decisions to produce weapons are political, not scientific in nature, and the main reason for pollution is the profit motive, not scientific progress.
The need for profit encourages employers to give genetic tests to workers to discover who may be most productive, or who may be prone to illness that might lead to costly claims for compensation.
But above all, pressures from a biotechnology industry that stands to profit from the proliferation of tests drives the expansion of genetic testing.
But the stigma of socialism was stronger than the instinct to make a profit.
In America, for example, it is illegal to ship wine privately from California to Massachusetts because wine wholesalers in Massachusetts managed to have a Federal law established that protects their huge profit margins.
The critical point here is that a retail price includes not only the price of the goods but also distribution costs - wages of shop personnel, rent, advertising, profit margins, etc.
These superfunds, whose managers do not necessarily share the same passion for profit as private investors, are said to be squeezing the life out of interest rates and exchange rates.
Finally, finance has long had an interest in stable monopolies and oligopolies with high profit margins, while the public has an interest in competitive markets with low margins.
Indeed, the average for banks is nearly four times that for Chinese companies as a whole, for which the average profit is just over 6%.
In the private sector, the market mechanism provides the elements of a self-organizing system, thanks to three interconnected structures: the price system, the profit motive, and capital markets.
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