Fighting Climate Change: The Role of Government

In order for government to achieve change in a more or less democratic society,  it is necessary to combine good policies, education and social solidarity. While  authoritarian governments can simply impose policies on the population and  enforce their provisions with the threat of violence if required, democratic  governments must enroll the citizens in the process. If there is large-scale  resistance to a policy, whether it is active resistance or passive resistance,  then the goals of the policy will not be achieved.

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Entrepreneurship: Government Markets

Although the nature of the relationship between the private and public sectors varies considerably from country to country, that relationship is nevertheless one of considerable important in determining economic and commercial growth. In the context of this series of article, the government sector represents one of the biggest markets for entrepreneurs wishing to acquire new business and can be very remunerative, although there are certain characteristics of that market which have to be learned.

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Business Ethics: The Business of Business Is Business

It is rather an old-fashioned concept now but there are still people who will argue that ‘the business of business is business ‘ – that is, people involved in business should be able to concern themselves purely with the making of money and, not only need they not think about anybody else but nobody else should concern themselves with what they are doing.

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Business Ethics: The Role of Government

Without national and regional level government agencies, it would be completely impossible for business (or anything else) to survive beyond a few days. Government provides the physical and virtual infrastructure necessary for civilization to proceed and only governments will do it for remote communities when the costs are much higher than could ever be recovered from any kind of capitalist investment.

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