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In general, it is fair to say that these activities are performed more efficiently as a result: People whose skills are worth, say, $50 per hour spend more of their time earning $50, rather than performing chores “worth” $10 or $20 per hour.
Thanks to highly productive surplus economies, they can spend a lot more time being economically inactive.
Do we spend more on “communications,” meaning the hardware and infrastructure, even as the real value is unaccounted for?
Will the world of cognitive surplus make it easier for us to be environmentally responsible, guided also by the inclusion of externalities in the prices of physical goods, so that we end up “consuming” fewer physical things and spend more on virtual value?
The attention economy is one in which people spend their personal time attracting others’ attention, whether by designing creative avatars, posting pithy comments, or accumulating “likes” for their cat photos.
NATO has been trying for years – without success – to get its member states to spend the required 2% of GDP on defense.
In Nigeria, for example, 80 million people have no access to electricity, and another 60 million spend $13 billion annually to run polluting diesel generators, which could be displaced by mini-grids.
Whereas the US is willing to spend $147 billion next year in the name of an implausible democracy in Iraq, it refuses to spend any imagination or money to shore up one of the most creative models of peace and democracy in the Islamic world.
The EU will spend over 30billion euros integrating its new members into the Union.
The bottom line is that Europeans should worry and talk less about the Euro exchange rate, and spend the time they save trying to address their real problems: low productivity, market rigidities, fiscal polices constrained by the Stability Pact, and bankrupt pension systems.
Assuming that the average wedding costs roughly 300,000 rupees ($5,700), Indians spend about Rs3 trillion on weddings each year – roughly one-third of which is allotted to the meal.
Workers who otherwise would not have a job now have one, and may spend some of their income on goods and services produced by other people, creating a multiplier effect.
The best way to understand this effort, said German Minister of Defense Ursula von der Leyen, is as an answer to Trump’s demand that Europeans spend more on defense.
In the discussion at Jackson Hole, someone asked whether international pressure could be exerted on the surplus countries to spend more and save less.
If democratic societies allow people to spend money to buy environmental advantages for children, how can they prohibit parents from buying genetic advantages?
More than half of middle-income households spend more each month than they earn.
Consistent with the idea that households at lower income levels were “keeping up with the Vanderbilts,” the non-rich (but not the really poor) living near high-spending wealthy consumers tended to spend much more on items that richer households usually consumed, such as jewelry, beauty and fitness, and domestic services.
Before these two leaders irreversibly doom their two countries to spend the next decades locked in a devastating and avoidable conflict, they should carefully consider what that would mean not just for the US and China, but for the entire world.
Coming to office after 17 years of right-wing authoritarian rule, the temptation to promise handsomely and spend lavishly was enormous.
A useful point of comparison is what industrialized countries spend on their statistical services.
For example, the Norwegian and British governments spend about 0.2% of GDP.
So we need to know where additional data will have value for improving a decision and how much we should spend to get it.
So where is it best to spend more first?
Poor people spend money reasonably effectively on investment as well as on consumption.
Households whose members have steady jobs borrow from micro-financiers to pay the fees, and then spend the rest of the year repaying the loan.
Compounding the problem, donor-country populations often overestimate the amount of money their governments spend on aid.
The stores of transitory wealth that were created seemed real enough to everyone at the time – real enough to spend, and real enough to hurt those who were obliged to pay them back.
And, in a world in which many citizens spend an increasing proportion of their time in virtual space, de facto condominialism is already happening.
The growing concentration of wealth – and a significant reduction in taxes on it – has meant less money to spend on investments for the public good, like education and the protection of children.
American states like California spend about as much on prisons as on higher education – and sometimes more.
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