Dr. Neil Postman
Field of reference: Education
Description: From the book "The End of Education"
"The idea of public education depends absolutely on the existence of shared narratives and the exclusion of narratives that lead to alienation and divisiveness"
"The history of learning is an adventure in overcoming our errors. There is no sin in being wrong. The sin is in our unwillingness to examine our own beliefs, and in believing that our authorities cannot be wrong."
"At its best, schooling can be about how to make a life, which is quite different from how to make a living. "
“The idea of public education depends absolutely on the existence of shared narratives and the exclusion of narratives that lead to alienation and divisiveness. What makes public schools public is not so much that the schools have common goals but that the students have common gods. The reason for this is that public education does not serve a public. It creates a public.” (pg. 17)
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Douglas A. McIntyre
Field of reference: Economics
Description: Unemployment plague is destroying Europe's future. Includes Statistics on different countries in Europe.
"Joblessness has virtually crippled the region in a way that will make a broad economic recovery in this decade impossible. There are no solutions to the problems right now."
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Dr. Margaret w. Linn, Richard Sandifer, Dr. Shayna Stein
Field of reference: Health
Description: A research comparing the health of employed and unemployed individuals
"Results from this study strongly suggest that unemployment had an adverse impact on psychological function, with the unemployed becoming more anxious, depressed, and concerned with bodily symptoms than those who continued to work."
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Dr. Terry Barker
Field of reference: Economics
Description: Cut the working week to a maximum of 20 hours, urge top economists.
"The Objectives
It is vital that two social problems be solved. The first is the obvious degradation of the planet and its atmosphere by over-consumption and over-production through the exploitation of resources in pursuit of monetary gain. The second problem is the toxic pollution of the global money supply, also obvious, caused by financial practices over the past twenty years, led by the investment banks of Wall Street and the City of London.
The problems are related: both arise out of the pursuit of self interest, sanctified by the crude economic utilitarianism that underlies equilibrium economics; both are non-liner catastrophic events, although on different time scales; and arguably both can be described, in different ways, as the greatest market failures in human history.
The Trust has been founded to promote new thinking in economics that does not rely on equilibrium and instead recognizes the inherent uncertainties in the understanding of behaviour and accepts that nearly all economic activity is social in nature, not individual; that human beings are social animals; and that successful economies are based on trust and integrity."
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New Economics Foundation
Field of reference: Economics
Description: Cut the working week to a maximum of 20 hours, urge top economists.
“Are we just living to work, and working to earn, and earning to consume?”
“If everyone worked fewer hours – say, 20 or so a week – there would be: More jobs to go around, Employees could spend more time with their families, and Energy-hungry excess consumption would be curbed.” "The government should legislate a maximum working week."
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