Economics Unmasked

Download Economics Unmasked full books in PDF, epub, and Kindle. Read online Economics Unmasked ebook anywhere anytime directly on your device. Fast Download speed and no annoying ads. We cannot guarantee that every ebooks is available!

Economics Unmasked

Author : Manfred Max-Neef
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 0857840320
Total Pages : 304 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (578 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Economics Unmasked by : Manfred Max-Neef

Download or read book Economics Unmasked written by Manfred Max-Neef and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2011-08-30 with total page 304 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An inspiring outline of a new economics system, where justice, human dignity, compassion and reverence for life are the guiding values. The economic system under which we live not only forces the great majority of humankind to live their lives in indignity and poverty but also threatens all forms of life on Earth. Economics Unmasked presents a cogent critique of the dominant economic system, showing that the theoretical constructions of mainstream economics work mainly to bring about injustice. The merciless onslaught on the global ecosystem of recent decades, brought about by the massive increase in the production of goods and the consequent depletion of nature's reserves, is not a chance property of the economic system. It is a direct result of neoliberal economic thinking, which recognizes value only in material things. The growth obsession is not a mistaken conception that mainstream economists can unlearn, it is inherent in their view of life. But a socio-economic system based on the growth obsession can never be sustainable. This book outlines the foundations of a new economics, where we are not ruled by greed and injustice. Contrary to the absurd assumption of mainstream economists that economics is a value-free science, a new economics must make its values explicit.

Economics Without Illusions

Author : Joseph Heath
Publisher : Crown Currency
ISBN 13 : 0307590593
Total Pages : 354 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (75 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Economics Without Illusions by : Joseph Heath

Download or read book Economics Without Illusions written by Joseph Heath and published by Crown Currency. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 354 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "Economics is haunted by more fallacies than any other study known to man." -- Henry Hazlitt, Economics in One Lesson (1946) Every day economic claims are used by the media or in conversation to support social and political positions. Those on the left tend to distrust economists, seeing them as friends of the right. There is something to this, since professional economists are almost all keen supporters of the free market. Yet while factions on the right naturally embrace economists, they also tend to overestimate the effect of their support on free-market policies. The result is widespread confusion. In fact, virtually all commonly held beliefs about economics--whether espoused by political activists, politicians, journalists or taxpayers--are just plain wrong. Professor Joseph Heath wants to raise our economic literacy and empower us with new ideas. In Economics Without Illusions, he draws on everyday examples to skewer the six favourite economic fallacies of the right, followed by impaling the six favourite fallacies of the left. Heath leaves no sacred cows untipped as he breaks down complex arguments and shows how the world really works. The popularity of such books as Freakonomics and Predictably Irrational demonstrates that people want a better understanding of the financial forces that affect them. Highly readable, cogently argued and certain to raise ire along all points of the socio-political spectrum, Economics Without Illusions offers readers the economic literacy they need to genuinely understand and critique the pros and cons of capitalism.

Economics Without the Boring Bits

Author : Tejvan Pettinger
Publisher : Welbeck
ISBN 13 : 1802790624
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (27 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Economics Without the Boring Bits by : Tejvan Pettinger

Download or read book Economics Without the Boring Bits written by Tejvan Pettinger and published by Welbeck. This book was released on 2021-08-03 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Where does wealth come from? How is it different from money? Does division of labour mean that the best people are hired to do the job? Does government intervention prevent or create crises? What is the most effective way to protect the environment? The great Scottish historian Thomas Carlyle dismissed economics as "the dismal science", yet it is at the heart of everything we do. Economics without the Boring Bits is a clear, comprehensive and richly anecdotal guide to debt, finance, trade, money, taxation, supply, demand and all the other big issues that worry us all yet relatively few truly understand. Oxford-trained economist Tejvan Pettinger takes readers on an enlightening tour of the powerful, counter-intuitive and frequently startling insights of economic research, showing us that middlemen are good, recycling is bad (sometimes) and why some people get rich and others don't. If you want to understand the wealth of nations without wading through The Wealth of Nations, this is the ideal place to start.

Rent Unmasked

Author : Fred Harrison
Publisher : Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers
ISBN 13 : 9780856835117
Total Pages : 0 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (351 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Rent Unmasked by : Fred Harrison

Download or read book Rent Unmasked written by Fred Harrison and published by Shepheard-Walwyn Publishers. This book was released on 2016 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rent Unmasked explores the new economic paradigm that policy-makers need to solve global problems in the post-2008 era. With conventional economic theories discredited, the new model must equip governments with tools to re-stabilise societies in a dangerous world. Rent Unmasked explains why one paradigm only qualifies to serve this purpose: the dynamic model that reinstates time and space back into economic theorising. The Flat Earth economics of the neo-classical school is analysed by the 13 contributors to this volume, which honours the seminal role played by Mason Gaffney, Emeritus Professor of Economics at the University of California (Riverside), in exposing the way in which classical economics was debased to serve rent-seeking interests. In a world divided by dangerously misleading theories of governance, Rent Unmasked recovers the concepts that integrate macro-economics with the common good; interrogates the interface between private incomes and public revenue; and identifies strategies for lifting the stalled global economy out of the low-growth straightjacket that is blocking the rise of real wages and capital formation to levels that deliver sustainable growth.

Debunking Economics

Author : Steve Keen
Publisher : Zed Books
ISBN 13 : 9781856499927
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (999 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Debunking Economics by : Steve Keen

Download or read book Debunking Economics written by Steve Keen and published by Zed Books. This book was released on 2001-07-28 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What is the score card for economics at the start of the new millennium? While there are many different schools of economic thought, it is the neo-classical school, with its alleged understanding and simplistic advocacy of the market, that has become equated in the public mind with economics. This book shows that virtually every aspect of conventional neo-classical economics' thinking is intellectually unsound. Steve Keen draws on an impressive array of advanced critical thinking. He constitutes a profound critique of the principle concepts, theories, and methodologies of the mainstream discipline. Keen raises grave doubts about economics' pretensions to established scientific status and its reliability as a guide to understanding the real world of economic life and its policy-making.

Beyond Ecological Economics and Development

Author : Luis Valenzuela
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1000934365
Total Pages : 276 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (9 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Beyond Ecological Economics and Development by : Luis Valenzuela

Download or read book Beyond Ecological Economics and Development written by Luis Valenzuela and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2023-08-25 with total page 276 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The interrelationship among development, environment, and human needs is one of the key issues being faced by the world today. The Chilean economist, Manfred Max-Neef, was a leading thinker on this dynamic, and this book provides both an introduction to and analysis of his work and ideas. Arranged in three main sections – “Human needs and wellbeing”, “Development, growth and sustainability”, and “Methodology of economics” – the chapters in this book contribute to on-going debates on issues as important as human development, the limits of economic growth, deep ecology, sustainable consumption, entrepreneurship, climate change, interdisciplinarity, and the methodology and practice of economics. The contributors to this volume provide a broad range of different critical perspectives on these issues, and the chapters are arranged in dialogue with each other to provide the reader with a rounded view of the legacy of Max-Neef. This book is vital reading for all those interested in ecological economics, environmental economics, development economics, methodology and philosophy of economics, and heterodox economics.

Transformative Ecological Economics

Author : Ove Jakobsen
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
ISBN 13 : 1351794019
Total Pages : 279 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (517 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Transformative Ecological Economics by : Ove Jakobsen

Download or read book Transformative Ecological Economics written by Ove Jakobsen and published by Taylor & Francis. This book was released on 2017-04-21 with total page 279 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: When we look at the state of the world today, what is most evident is the fact that the major problems of our time – energy, environment, economy, climate change and social justice – cannot be understood in isolation. They are interconnected problems, which means that they require corresponding systemic solutions. Today’s global economy has brought about critical distress for ecosystems and societies and we have to go to the very root of the problems to find a way out. This volume develops a synthesized interpretation of ecological economics integrating different levels: (economic) system, (business) practice and the (economic) actor. It discusses how changes on a systems level are connected to changes in practice and development of individual consciousness. Transformative Ecological Economics delves into the insight and knowledge from different sources of inspiration (thermodynamics, Darwinism, anthroposophy and Buddhism) as well as into an integrated story describing and illustrating the core ideas, principles and values that characterize a utopian society anchored in ecological economics. Implementation of the deep changes demanded depends on our ability to write a new story, a utopian one for sure, but one which is in accordance with and based on the reality in which we live. This book will be of interest to those who study ecological economics, political economy and environmental economics.

Globalism Unmasked

Author : Mark Keenan
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 204 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (969 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Globalism Unmasked by : Mark Keenan

Download or read book Globalism Unmasked written by Mark Keenan and published by . This book was released on 2020-10-12 with total page 204 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The worldwide financial system was already in crash mode prior to the Coronavirus situation. This book chronicles the false and deceptive narratives in relation to the 'Reset', banking, money creation, globalisation, economics, sustainable development, climate change, and corporate media. These areas have been utilised by a small group of people for the purposes of greed, power and authoritarian control of the world, to the general detriment of the overwhelming majority of the world population. All nations are in vast debt - this worldwide system of debt slavery run by the privately owned world banking system had reached its mathematical endpoint. The 'Reset' attempts to replace it with a fascist system of technocratic authoritarianism under cover a virus. It is an attempt by the WEF, globalist bankers and their political cohorts to retain control and push their fourth industrial revolution agenda of control under cover of a fake pandemic and the fake narrative of sustainable development. The real divide in society is fascist authoritarianism versus freedom.Decades ago, the real sustainability movement was hijacked by the deceptive political scheme of sustainable development, which endorsed unjust debt-money banking and a flawed economic system. Sustainable development is a false narrative operating under cover of continued globalisation.For decades, the international privately owned banking system has created debt-money from nothing and charged all governments and people extortionist interest on it (usury). By this and other mechanisms it bled around 35% of the profits of nations. This resulted in immense wealth and power for a tiny minority that own the private worldwide banking cartel, but placed a financial debt burden of control on the nations of the world.The GDP growth system was needed by the banking system, so that it could receive interest payments on debt-money loans, yet GDP growth caused environmental degradation, social poverty, and wealth inequity in society.The private banking cartel created boom-bust-bailout cycles at will that placed nations in further debt. The real economic welfare of society, as estimated by the GPI, decreased since 1978. The pseudo-science of contemporary economics used by all governments facilitated the process.IN 2020, limits to GDP growth and peak oil appear to be manifesting. Systemic problems in the economic system led to a multi-trillion dollar banking bailout in 2020 that took place under cover of a virus. The serious implications for the future of worldwide society and the potential collapse of industrialised society is outlined. The nefarious economic reset of worldwide societal control, the growing opposition to these fascist changes, and what we must do in the years ahead is described in detail.Having worked at the United Nations Environment Division and as a Science Advisor at the Department of Energy and Climate Change, U.K., Mark Keenan exposes the truth about subjects vital for the welfare of humanity.

Tackling Timorous Economics

Author : Katherine Trebeck
Publisher : Luath Press Ltd
ISBN 13 : 1910324876
Total Pages : 121 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (13 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Tackling Timorous Economics by : Katherine Trebeck

Download or read book Tackling Timorous Economics written by Katherine Trebeck and published by Luath Press Ltd. This book was released on 2017-01-19 with total page 121 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Timorous: adj, 1) shy, not bold 2) easily frightened. Economics: n, social science concerned with the production and consumption of goods and services. What is the best way to run a country? How long should a person be obliged to work every day? What will the economy look like after Brexit? In this new take on the Scottish economy, experts Trebeck, Boyd and Kerevan address how our economy can serve us, as opposed to the people serving the economy. They believe that current economic policies are not aligned with what we as people need in these times of rampant inequality and inequitable distribution, advocating an increased focus on the quality of Scotland's economy. Using Scotland as an example for the economic workings of any country, Tackling Timorous Economics shows a better way of how economics could work for us.

Who Gets What--and why

Author : Alvin E. Roth
Publisher : Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
ISBN 13 : 0544291131
Total Pages : 275 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (442 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Who Gets What--and why by : Alvin E. Roth

Download or read book Who Gets What--and why written by Alvin E. Roth and published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt. This book was released on 2015 with total page 275 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A Nobel laureate reveals the often surprising rules that govern a vast array of activities -- both mundane and life-changing -- in which money may play little or no role. If you've ever sought a job or hired someone, applied to college or guided your child into a good kindergarten, asked someone out on a date or been asked out, you've participated in a kind of market. Most of the study of economics deals with commodity markets, where the price of a good connects sellers and buyers. But what about other kinds of "goods," like a spot in the Yale freshman class or a position at Google? This is the territory of matching markets, where "sellers" and "buyers" must choose each other, and price isn't the only factor determining who gets what. Alvin E. Roth is one of the world's leading experts on matching markets. He has even designed several of them, including the exchange that places medical students in residencies and the system that increases the number of kidney transplants by better matching donors to patients. In Who Gets What -- And Why, Roth reveals the matching markets hidden around us and shows how to recognize a good match and make smarter, more confident decisions.

Occupational Therapies Without Borders E-Book

Author : Dikaios Sakellariou
Publisher : Elsevier Health Sciences
ISBN 13 : 0702065102
Total Pages : 672 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (2 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Occupational Therapies Without Borders E-Book by : Dikaios Sakellariou

Download or read book Occupational Therapies Without Borders E-Book written by Dikaios Sakellariou and published by Elsevier Health Sciences. This book was released on 2016-09-23 with total page 672 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The new edition of this landmark international work builds on the previous two volumes, offering a window onto occupational therapy practice, theory and ideas in different cultures and geographies. It emphasizes the importance of critically deconstructing and engaging with the broader context of occupation, particularly around how occupational injustices are shaped through political, economic and historical factors. Centering on the wider social and political aspects of occupation and occupation-based practices, this textbook aims to inspire occupational therapy students and practitioners to include transformational elements into their practice. It also illustrates how occupational therapists from all over the world can affect positive changes by engaging with political and historical contexts. Divided into six sections, the new edition begins by analyzing the key concepts outlined throughout, along with an overview on the importance and practicalities of monitoring and evaluation in community projects. Section Two explores occupation and justice emphasizing that issues of occupational injustice are present everywhere, in different forms: from clinical settings to community-based rehabilitation. Section Three covers the enactment of different Occupational Therapies with a focus on the multiplicity of occupational therapy from the intimately personal to the broadly political. Section Four engages with the broader context of occupational therapy from the political to the financial. The chapters in this section highlight the recent financial crisis and the impact it has had on people’s everyday life. Section Five collects a range of different approaches to working to enable a notion of occupational justice. Featuring chapters from across the globe, Section Six concludes by highlighting the importance and diversity of educational practices. Comprehensively covers occupational therapy theory, methodology and practice examples related to working with underserved and neglected populations Gives a truly global overview with contributions from over 100 international leading experts in the field and across a range of geographical, political and linguistic contexts Demonstrates how occupational injustices are shaped through political, economic and historical factors Advocates participatory approaches which work for those who experience inequalities Includes a complete set of new chapters Explores neoliberalism and financial contexts, and their impact on occupation Examines the concept of disability Discusses theoretical and practical approaches to occupational justice

Inside Barefoot Economics

Author : Patrick Thomas Kletzka
Publisher : Logos Verlag Berlin
ISBN 13 : 3832553460
Total Pages : 176 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (325 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Inside Barefoot Economics by : Patrick Thomas Kletzka

Download or read book Inside Barefoot Economics written by Patrick Thomas Kletzka and published by Logos Verlag Berlin. This book was released on 2021-08-24 with total page 176 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "... the practice of barefoot economics requires more than simply the lived experience of poverty-related phenomena. In contrast to the prevailing positivist paradigm within the scientific discipline of economics that tends to cultivate particular ways of economic thinking by taking their linguistic presuppositions for granted, barefoot economics involves challenging one's own horizon of possibility for economic thought by putting commonly accepted academic jargon in abeyance."

First Steps to Seeing

Author : Emma Kidd
Publisher : Floris Books
ISBN 13 : 1782501878
Total Pages : 162 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (825 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis First Steps to Seeing by : Emma Kidd

Download or read book First Steps to Seeing written by Emma Kidd and published by Floris Books. This book was released on 2015-06-18 with total page 162 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the twenty-first century we are confronted with a rapidly changing world full of social, economic and environmental uncertainties. We are all inherently connected to this changing world and in order to create the best possible conditions for life to thrive, we must each develop an inner capacity to respond and adapt to life in new, creative and innovative ways. The author of this visionary book argues that the path to a happy, healthy and peaceful world begins with the individual. By learning to recognise our cognitive habits of interrupting and defining life through our fixed ideas, labels and judgements, we can begin to develop a dynamic way of seeing that enables us to perceive and respond to life with greater attentiveness. First Steps in Seeing reveals a practical set of stepping stones that guide the reader into this dynamic way of seeing and relating. Using personal stories, practical exercises and real-world case studies in development, education and business, the author takes the reader on a journey to explore how to give our full attention to life, and how to enliven the world that we each co-create. An inspiring guide for all those working for social change in youth work, business, education or research, or simply seeking fresh paths in life.

The Hidden Life of Clothing

Author : Rachel Worth
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1350180955
Total Pages : 217 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (51 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Hidden Life of Clothing by : Rachel Worth

Download or read book The Hidden Life of Clothing written by Rachel Worth and published by Bloomsbury Publishing. This book was released on 2023-06-15 with total page 217 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Since the democratisation of the clothing industry in the early 19th century, buyers have become increasingly disconnected from the creative and human aspects of the production of clothing. Arguably clothing is now valued less for its aesthetic qualities or because of the hours spent in its making, but more for the extent to which it serves current 'fashion'. In a climate of increasing anxiety about the environmental and social impact of the contemporary global fashion industry, Rachel Worth suggests that, rather than seeking solutions only in the present, looking to history can assist in understanding better the challenges consumers face today in making decisions about the contents of their wardrobes, which, in turn, will impact on the nature of the future global fashion industry. She does not seek to offer simplistic historical solutions to contemporary problems, but explores ways in which it might be possible to bridge divides between knowledge of the past, current individual choice, and possible directions for future action. The more we know about our clothes, the less likely it is that we will wear an item of clothing only a few times before replenishing it with newer purchases that are 'on trend'. By taking ownership of our personal clothing choices rather than feeling pressurised to respond to sophisticated marketing and to 'influencers', this book suggests how we might rethink our wardrobes in philosophical and practical ways in order to create a sense of order and beauty in our lives and to wrest control back from the increasing chaos of seemingly endless choice that perpetuates unsustainable, impersonal and fast fashion.

A Leap to an Ecological Economy

Author : Derek Paul
Publisher : Archway Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1480851728
Total Pages : 137 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (88 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis A Leap to an Ecological Economy by : Derek Paul

Download or read book A Leap to an Ecological Economy written by Derek Paul and published by Archway Publishing. This book was released on 2017-12-04 with total page 137 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is the present economy working for you and those around you? Is your government in debt? In your country, is there a real drive to deal with climate change? Are you aware of the great urgency of doing this? Are you aware that many economists consider that one cannot address climate change and other urgent problems within the economic system we now have? If it seems to you that the world has come to an impasse, theres a solution in the form of a new kind of economic thinking, with many practical changes to match. Its called an ecological economy (EE). It calls us to put the health of all life on this planet as the central issue. The EE will focus on resources rather than only money. Money will no longer rule us; rather it will help us do what needs doing. And well measure capital in natural units, not money. Therell be employment for those who want it; and the extra jobs will be found in projects that will be directed at the health of the ecosphere; and that includes your health. The fields and forests that have been denuded of nutrients will, over time, be restored; carbon dioxide emissions from fossil fuels will be eliminated. The costs of such projects will be assessed in terms of resource requirements and the needed human effort, with money as the servant, not the boss. The nations will learn to cooperate betterit will be in all of their interests. The worlds burgeoning population will halt its expansion, just in time to give wild life the breathing space it needs.

Race Unmasked

Author : Michael Yudell
Publisher : Columbia University Press
ISBN 13 : 0231537999
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (315 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis Race Unmasked by : Michael Yudell

Download or read book Race Unmasked written by Michael Yudell and published by Columbia University Press. This book was released on 2014-09-09 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Race, while drawn from the visual cues of human diversity, is an idea with a measurable past, an identifiable present, and an uncertain future. The concept of race has been at the center of both triumphs and tragedies in American history and has had a profound effect on the human experience. Race Unmasked revisits the origins of commonly held beliefs about the scientific nature of racial differences, examines the roots of the modern idea of race, and explains why race continues to generate controversy as a tool of classification even in our genomic age. Surveying the work of some of the twentieth century's most notable scientists, Race Unmasked reveals how genetics and related biological disciplines formed and preserved ideas of race and, at times, racism. A gripping history of science and scientists, Race Unmasked elucidates the limitations of a racial worldview and throws the contours of our current and evolving understanding of human diversity into sharp relief.

The Economics of Arrival

Author : Trebeck, Katherine
Publisher : Policy Press
ISBN 13 : 1447337859
Total Pages : 320 pages
Book Rating : 4.4/5 (473 download)

DOWNLOAD NOW!

Book Synopsis The Economics of Arrival by : Trebeck, Katherine

Download or read book The Economics of Arrival written by Trebeck, Katherine and published by Policy Press. This book was released on 2019-01-15 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What do we want from economic growth? What sort of a society are we aiming for? In everyday economics, there is no such thing as enough, or too much, growth. Yet in the world’s most developed countries, growth has already brought unrivalled prosperity: we have ‘arrived’. More than that, through debt, inequality, climate change and fractured politics, the fruits of growth may rot before everyone has a chance to enjoy them. It’s high time to ask where progress is taking us, and are we nearly there yet? In fact, Trebeck and Williams claim in this ground-breaking book, the challenge is now to make ourselves at home with this wealth, to ensure, in the interests of equality, that everyone is included. They explore the possibility of ‘Arrival’, urging us to move from enlarging the economy to improving it, and the benefits this would bring for all.