Language can also negotiate social contracts in a way that pantomime and body language can't.
The new initiative would merely extend that, enabling them to bid for all government social contracts, not just welfare ones.
For problems cast as social contracts or as questions of risk avoidance, by contrast, non-psychopaths got it right about 70% of the time.
The Wason test suggests that analysing social contracts and analysing risk are what evolutionary psychologists call cognitive modules bundles of mental adaptations that act like bodily organs in that they are specialised to a particular job.
This makes political leaders a huge source of patronage, in the form of business contracts, social benefits, jobs and tax breaks.
And we're in the process of implementing and expanding charitable choice, the principle already established in federal law that faith- based organizations should not suffer discrimination when they compete for contracts to provide social services.
One route the group explored was the possibility of a "phoenix" company, preferably a social enterprise, taking on the contracts and activities of Remploy's Dundee operation.
More than 5.4m Germans are on part-time contracts that are not subject to social-security contributions, up from 3.9m in 1991.
More to the point, if the employers are able to negotiate to hire more workers at a lower salary that will be more expansionary than if union contracts, minimum wage laws or social convention leads them to hire fewer workers at higher salaries.
The finance minister said his department already tries to build in the concept of what social good can be extracted from money going into contracts, and that there was no room for complacency in procurement.
Even now, many staff in the children's department want to leave, and more than half the staff in some social-work teams are hired from agencies on expensive temporary contracts.
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Our political and civic institutions distribute goods and services, along with the income derived from those goods and services according to the contracts we negotiate at the individual level and the social contract we negotiate whenever we elect the people who we hope will serve our enlightened self-interest in governing the country.
The data, from the Information Centre for Health and Social Care, refers to spending on NHS dental care before new dental contracts started in April 2006.
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She said it should be replaced by a guideline to award contracts to "the most advantageous contract in terms of economic, social and environmental benefits".
As the old rules have been loosened, firms have hired more workers, often on short-term contracts or as part-timers, with less strict job protection and lower social-security contributions.
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