Externality

Even though we live in a world that always changes and advances, the media continues glorifying Eurocentric standards and ideals unto us in our everyday lives. Although the media is beginning to be more culturally and racially diverse, physical features and characteristics remain the same. Fair skin, light eyes, straight hair, thin bodies and thin noses are mostly seen in media, even though it’s “racially diverse”. Children growing up in this culture are learning that Eurocentric ideals are…

One potential way meant to resolve this problematic ontology is Allison 's two aspect view. Instead of there being an ontological distinction between phenomena and noumena, the two aspect view holds that this is merely an epistemic distinction.23 We can consider an object both spatiotemporally in, the manner of sensible conditions and we can also view them as things-in-themselves.24 The most notable example of this is found in Kant 's view of freedom: the human subject can be viewed as both…

1) Oligopoly: Oligopoly is a type of market structure in which very few sellers or firms holds the majority of the market. Oligopoly is resulted from a wide range of collusions which makes the competition to be lower and makes high prices for consumers. There is no specific limit for the number of firms but the number should be minimum. The actions of one firm will automatically effect the others firms.…

David Neumark’s article, Age Discrimination Legislation in the United States, provides a summary, critical review, and synthesis of what is known about age discrimination legislation. The author outlines the legislation history and the law cases related to age discrimination, he then discusses the implementation of the law. Neumark continues to talk about the research that addresses the rationale for the legislation, its effectiveness and criticisms. Overall, he concludes that age…

Understanding the motivations and root causes of corporate tax behavior is integral to reforming tax code. In general, taxes generate income that funds local, state, and federal government activity. Furthermore, taxes can be used to control negative externalities that businesses would otherwise be incentivized to produce (think emission taxes). Under the CBS news headline “Expert debunks claim U.S. corporate taxes are too high” a California law professor…

Paid maternity leave is offered to women and the policy even extends to men for a lesser time frame around the globe. Countries have offered as much as 12 to 18 weeks paid leave and some private sector organizations overseas can offer up to a year of maternity leave. Countries that are rapidly growing within their economic development have also extended policy centered around maternity leave which begs the question: Why is the United States lagging behind our global counterparts in providing…

While working at The Scholarship Foundation of St. Louis I wanted to do more within the organization. However, leadership roles require higher education, so I decided to go back to school to pursue my Master’s degree focusing on Nonprofit Leadership Management. I was first introduced to Orvin Kimbrough while working at The Scholarship Foundation. Orvin was a former recipient of the Foundation’s Interest-free Loan Program. When I worked at the Foundation, Orvin was a successful recipient, working…

“Get big or get out” shook our nation in the 1970s as the ‘agribusiness’ boom spread in sweeping waves. Planting from “fence row to fence row” dandelions was replaced by corn and soybeans. Hands were replaced with complicated machines, time was replaced with fertilizers and varied crops by pesticides. Soil and worms were degraded to dust. Cows grazing in open pasture were replaced by concentrated-animal feedlot operations (CAFOs). Farm houses and barns were abandoned, burned to the ground,…

addition to this, there are more chronically undesirable influences, increasing social costs. To manufacture more goods and services, more inputs have to be injected and in this process, non-renewable resources like fossil fuel are gone and negative externalities are created such as air pollution[picture7] arousing respiratory disease and noise population, traffic jams increasing stress index, which degrades life standard…

This section looks into the maximum potential of solar PV and battery storage in Singapore based on several technical case studies. Given the small land area of Singapore, one of the most important considerations for the deployment of solar PV is the availability of space for panel installations. Indeed, land constraint and the resulting high land prices have often been cited as major impediment factors. As shown in Figure X, Singapore’s average per square meter land prices ranks as the second…