Economic progress in capitalist society means turmoil.
The labor of women in the house certainly enables men to produce more wealth than they otherwise could and in this way women are economic factors in society. But so are horses.
I really think that elected officials should be focused on how you create sustained economic growth how do you create jobs and all of these issues that made people - segments of our society believe are really important are diversions politically.
If you ask an economist what's driven economic growth it's been major advances in things that mattered - the mechanization of farming mass manufacturing things like that. The problem is our society is not organized around doing that.
If capitalism is to remain a healthy vibrant economic system corporations must participate in taking care of the society and the environment in which they live.
In this time of budget cuts we cannot forget that basic science is a building block for scientific innovation and economic growth in the information age.
First I think the science of monetary economics has clearly gotten better.
If I wasn't doing this I'd be in school studying political science or socioeconomic something. I love visiting different cultures and finding out how they make up a society.
Much of what Tea Party candidates claimed about the world and the global economy during the 2010 elections would have earned their adherents a well-deserved F in any freshman economics (or earth science) class.
Economics has never been a science - and it is even less now than a few years ago.