Summary:Paul Krugman's “Degrees and Dollars” In his article “Degrees and Dollars” Paul Krugman states that education is not key to economic success. Technology keeps growing everyday and Paul shows that this technology is harming highly educated jobs. He also is showing that middle class jobs are becoming less popular while low wage jobs seem to be increasing. Krugman will also explain his thoughts on how to fix the economy as a whole through bring the society together as a whole. In his first section Paul says that “It is universally acknowledged that education is the key to economic success.” He is actually just stating that to make a generalization of most of the worlds thoughts on education and job success, because right after he makes that statement he goes on to say that “what everyone knows is wrong.” Krugman says that the growing technology and use of software is extremely cheaper than the “old fashioned” way of doing things.
Tuition Reimbursement XCOM/285 February 20, 2011 Glenda Powell Tuition Reimbursement After a successful and profitable year, Donnie Company [Donco] issued a task for the Human Resource Department [HR], specifically employee benefits section to analyze the cost and effect of increasing tuition benefits to all employees. Donco is trying to see whether the cost to the company for providing tuition assistance will prove a beneficial decision or a waste of company dollars. The most interesting questions to answer are whether furthering one’s education provides the company with a more valuable employee, in addition to increased loyalty and production. A company can always issue a raise as incentive, yet a raise alone may not actually increase
PROFESSIONAL DEVELOPMENT STRATEGIES - BA 2101, SECTION 011 FINAL ESSAY – 3/7/2013 INSTRUCTOR: Lindsay R. Teich Major in Success College students need more guidance in how to turn their talents, curiosity, and passions into successful careers. Most guidance offices and books on the subject will be inadequate for these purposes. The writing style is witty and engaging, and the examples are interesting and relevant. Repetition does occur in using the examples, but it's not too bad. While this book has some weaknesses in helping you select the direction you should go in, it is superb in helping you pursue your goals once they are set.
However, the amount of capital can be limited thus using appropriate budgeting concepts will help narrow down the risks. Arguably, some of the most popular methods of capital budgeting are Net Present Value (NPV), Internal Rate of Return (IRR), Discounted Cask Flow (DCF) and payback period. Businesses tend to struggle to minimizing expenses to improve the bottom line because some of these expenses are needed to ensure that certain operational goals are met, i.e., overhead and advertising. Establishing a culture of employee engagement and allowing employees to articulate their ideas can help in reducing these costs. To encourage the employees to come up with innovative ideas, a quarterly price by way of a $25.00 gift card will be given to the employee with the best idea.
Throughout the article, the author researches the behavior of American consumption pattern and the fundamental reasons that persuade society to buy. Moreover, Twitchell provided readers with examples and various authors’ works to support his claims, which portrayed him as a credible author. The author helped the readers realize that a controlled materialism can be a positive contributor to society with his article, so his work was successful in reaching the readers through his main point. Twitchell opens his claim by recognizing American culture as a powerful force that is continually fastening its pace towards an increasingly capitalist society. He refers to American material culture as a mallcondo culture; a culture that is trying to be avoided by some hopeful nations and sought after by other willing and expanding nations (28).
This essay by Ungar advocates a liberal arts college edification for all despite the current economic hardship that many Americans face. He lists seven mundane misconceptions about liberal arts inculcation and then proceeds to expound why they are not so. The first misconception that he sets straight is that vocational training is a more preponderant alternative to liberal arts in today’s economic times. He verbalizes that albeit focused vocation training may be an expeditious fine-tune, students may not always be able to find work in that one categorical field, and it is more preponderant for them to gain a broad range of cognizance. He then argues that albeit people may cerebrate that college graduates with liberal arts degrees are having a more arduous time finding good jobs, that is not the case.
Harvard has been respected for its academic excellence for many, many years and it is assumed that it has produced some of the finest minds of our time. One would typically not think to challenge this assumption. William J. Bennett did just that in 1989 with his speech entitled “Drug Policy and the Intellectuals”, in which he attacked the intellectuals and chided them about their approach, or lack thereof, regarding drug policy, legalization in particular, in the United States. Even though he does attack the intellectuals during his speech, he manages not to alienate them by giving a smooth, yet highly passionate account of his personal beliefs regarding drugs and drug policy, legalization in particular. Considering that Bennett’s audience was likely largely Harvard University students and staff, the fact that he criticized the intellectuals so thoroughly was probably not lost on anyone and was very daring.
Some try to avoid that and looking in other areas to save money. One of the areas is of course the IT department; especially the application accusation is an area that might lead to a big money saver. Even in financial difficulties times businesses need or want to improve their application environment, and sometimes it might
Criticism to Technopoly Abraham C. Vanegas University of Maryland University College Advance Writing 391 As I read Technopoly by Neil Postman my view of technology changes little by little. Although at first after reading the synopsis in the back of the book and the introduction I thought this might be just another book criticizing technology severely, I came to find the view of this author very interesting and at some point even realistic. Potsman is a knowledgeable person, his position as faculty and writer are very clear in his writing and his main idea, which is to keep one eye open when allowing technologies in our lives is actually something that after reading his book I will take into consideration. From the beginning of his book he explains how introducing new things to our life have changed the way we are in some sort of way since the old days. “A new technology does not add or subtract something.
Automated machines will displace low or unskilled workers in firms and offices. However, the servicing of sophisticated products should create more jobs than technology can destroy. The best jobs will be filled by Americans before being filtered to other countries. Americans will be able to create their own working environments and hours. Other countries’ economies present us with challenges and opportunities.