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• 99:0 The Social Problems of Religion
  ...il]] with [[good]] within the existing social order of [[political]] and [[economic]] [[culture]]. [[Religion]] has thus indirectly tended to perpetuate the [[ ...society]] to adapt its usages and [[adjust]] its [[institutions]] to new [[economic]] conditions and cultural requirements.
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• Economics
  ...ernative uses." Absent scarcity and alternative uses, there is no economic problem. Briefer yet is "the study of how people seek to satisfy needs and wants" a ...[https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Physiocractic_school physiocratic school]. Economic reasoning has been increasingly applied in recent decades to social situati
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• Scarcity
  '''Scarcity''' (also called paucity) is the fundamental [[economic]] problem of having seemingly unlimited human needs and wants, in a world of [[limite
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• Mathematical model
  ...he problem of rational behavior in this model then becomes an optimization problem. ...quilibrium theory, particularly to show existence and Pareto optimality of economic equilibria. However, the fact that this particular formulation assigns ''n
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• Widow
  ==Economic position of widows== .... However, even in some [[patriarchal]] societies, widows could maintain [[economic]] [[independence]]. A widow could carry on her late husband's [[business]]
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• 121:3 Among the Gentiles
  121:3.1 Although the [[social]] and [[economic]] condition of the [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ancient_Rome#Republic Rom ...stinctions as being unjust or wrong. [[Christianity]] was in no sense an [[economic]] movement having for its [[purpose]] the amelioration of the miseries of t
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• 71:5 The Evolution of Competition
  ...nd to prevent unfairness in [[personal]] [[initiative]]. Here is a great [[problem]] in statehood: How can you guarantee [[peace]] and [[quiet]] in [[industry ...dingly wasteful and highly ineffective, but no attempt to eliminate this [[economic]] lost [[motion]] should be countenanced if such [[adjustments]] entail eve
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• 2012-07-06-Dissertation on Prejudice
  ...t will unfailingly lead you to the wrong conclusion. In that instance, the problem is not your coming to a pre-judgment, but your basing it on wrong, insuffic ...f certain color or age, male or female, obese or skinny, rich or poor. The problem is how you use this information – as a means to a better ministry of love
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• 2021-02-07-Your Coach to Eternal Life
  ...e reason that he would not take sides in present-day political, social, or economic disputes. He would remain grandly aloof while teaching you how to perfect y ...ge that love, compassion, empathy, and respect should play a major role in problem-solving since most issues arise from a blatant disregard of love-in-action.
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• Cooperation
  ...e jurisdictions because they alter the [[nature]] of access by others to [[economic]] or other resources. Thus, cooperation in the form of cartels or price-fix ..., and cooperation to be rewarded more, than the single-shot version of the problem would suggest. It has been suggested that this is one reason for the [[evol
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• German Philosophy
  ...t to place it on firmer grounds. They were also greatly concerned with the problem of freewill as understood through Kantianism: practical reason presupposes ...al work of economics called [[Das Kapital]], which consisted of a critical economic examination of capitalism. [[Marxism]] has had a massive affect on the worl
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• Conundrum
  ...rds: called in 1769 conundrumical question. b. Any puzzling question or problem; an [[enigma]]tical statement. ...um is also used to describe a paradoxically difficult problem, such as the problem faced by economists in the second half of the twentieth century of how to a
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• 2020-06-12-Promote a Culture of Peace
  ...ached emotionally-loaded situations. He witnessed discriminations based on economic wealth, race, gender, religious beliefs, education, and more. In no way, wa ...e and was able to ‘reasonably’ and thought-provokingly become an effective problem-solver while making the point that no one can take the Kingdom of Heaven by
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• Exponential
  ...on much because doubling processor speed merely allows you to increase the problem size by a constant. E.g. if a slow processor can solve problems of size x i ...tial Growth of the Earth Population. ''Mathematical Modeling of Social and Economic Dynamics'' / Ed. by M. G. Dmitriev and A. P. Petrov, pp. 367–9. Moscow: R
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• Collapse
  ...[[systems]] like [[human]] [[societies]] is an important [[scientific]] [[problem]]. That genuine structural collapse seems, in many cases, the only plausibl ...ly an endpoint for that [[form]] of [[administering]] the [[social]] and [[economic]] life of a [[culture]], it can be as another kind of change of administrat
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• 2010-06-14-About Slavery
  ...ften regarded as not the problem of the purchaser if a producer resorts to economic slavery to make a product and obtain vast profits due to greed; it’s simp ...the West Indies in appalling conditions to work in the plantations, or the economic slavery we see in India, Africa, China and many other countries. It is unfa
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• 2014-07-19-Monjoronson Dialogues
  ...rnment, that violence only begets violence. Violence is not a cure for any problem and in fact will only breed further, more intractable problems in its wake. ...sion to pursue aggression as opposed to cooperation is also evident in the economic sphere of banking, finance and international commerce, where greed is the a
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• War
  ...It is characterised by [[extreme]] [[violence]], social disruption, and [[economic]] [[destruction]]. War should be understood as an actual, [[intentional]] a ...Smalley Richard E. Smalley] identified war as the sixth (of ten) biggest [[problem]] facing the [[society]] of mankind for the next fifty years. In the 1832 t
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• Biological Warfare
  ...t in large numbers of civilian fatalities and cause severe disruption to [[economic]] and [[societal]] [[infrastructure]]. Many countries, including signatorie As a tactical weapon for military use, a significant problem with a BW attack is that it would take days to be effective, and therefore
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• Social movement
  ...ometimes argued that the freedom of expression, education and [[relative]] economic independence prevalent in the modern Western [[culture]] is responsible for ...argues that the early growth of social movements was connected to broad [[economic]] and political changes including parliamentarization, market capitalizatio
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