Most productive activity was small enterprise, often family conducted and sometimes with a few other workers.
The West needs to focus on direct productive activity and focus on it hard.
Although government interferes with those efforts, it usually does not totally eliminate productive activity.
Incentives are consequently slashed for productive activity, such as savings, investment, work, business expansion, business creation, job creation, and entrepreneurship.
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Incentives are consequently slashed for productive activity, such as saving, investment, work, business expansion, business creation, job creation, and entrepreneurship.
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The forecaster has to look at whether worsening government policy will outweigh productive activity by millions upon millions of people.
The marginal tax rate is the rate on the next dollar to be earned from any investment, enterprise or productive activity.
The whole point of SOC is to facilitate DPA: direct productive activity.
As well as actually spending on providing an improved platform for economic activity, governments need to tear down barriers to direct productive activity.
That powerfully increases the incentive for more productive activity, such as savings, investment, starting new businesses, expanding businesses, creating jobs, entrepreneurship, and work.
The best way to stay in the "sweet spot, " Dr. Moser says, is to channel the anxiety into productive activity like studying and acing the test.
But the developed world has lost sight of direct productive activity.
Even when the difficulty of registering businesses and land is overcome, entrepreneurs face other hurdles that make their productive activity riskier and less likely to succeed.
The taxes to support that further redistribution would sharply slow economic growth by slashing the reward for productive activity, as would the equalization payments to the recipients.
The states of the developed world need to stop talking about indirect benefits and spinoffs of spending and focus on direct benefits, the direct benefits to direct productive activity.
Even without all the necessary cuts that should occur, a reconnection of social overhead capital to direct productive activity would reinvigorate the economies of the developed world and trigger the growth so desperately needed.
Tax rate cuts promote economic growth and prosperity because they increase the proportion producers can keep of what they produce, which increases incentives for productive activity such as saving, investment, starting businesses, expanding businesses, job creation, entrepreneurship, and work.
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This process may be great for the capital, but it's awful for productive economic activity that occurs outside the city limits of Washington, D.
The first point to note is this: It is not possible to just wish away the problem of conflict of interest in dealing with any productive human activity.
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Properly understood, the concept reimbursement means the exact repayment for expenses incurred and applies almost exclusively to transactions such as travel expenses for employees and the like, not to productive economic activity.
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Housing is the result of otherwise productive economic activity, not the driver of it, so when real estate markets reached frothy heights from 2004-06, some, including this writer, warned that the rush to the real (authored by a weak dollar) was an ominous signal.
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We will create entirely new economies to buy the products that the new economic activity and productive capability will generate instead of allowing it degenerate into destructive inflation.
Although such payments may be justified as part of a social safety net, rewarding non-work and penalizing productive effort reduces jobs and economic activity.
What it would do is shift economic activity from the less productive government sector to the more productive private sector, thereby stimulating aggregate output and growth.
If they then start to actually use that investment in some productive way that pays wages and earns a profit, then they start to generate additional value-added from that activity, and that value-added continues to be created as long as they keep doing that productivev activity.
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