On the desert island, for an individual to consume, this person must produce something first to exchange with other producers.
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The day after the government issued the decree, if someone were to walk into your house and started taking your stuff, much like the watch thief on the desert island, you would both know what they were doing: taking your private property.
Assuming the proverbial desert island with just a few inhabitants, if suddenly a great deal of money were to fall from the sky, no real wealth or economic growth will have been achieved for the arrival of the money that on its own is not wealth.
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The consensus view is that the Bank of England is likely to remain stranded on its desert island surrounded by waves of inflation but unable to muster the strength to do anything about it.
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In the movie Madonna played a rich-bitch socialite who is stranded on a desert island with a communist sailor, who sets about humiliating her, before the pair fall in love.
Mr Edwards has the means to disappear, they say: call in the last of his chits and escape to a desert island.
Acadia National Park on Mount Desert Island in Maine is one of the most successful pieces of social and physical engineering in the United States, and it is and has always been a joint public-private effort.
This was followed by a three-year stint on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, where he was successor to the late Roy Plomley, who had created the castaway show.
"I'd learn the lines and say them, hopefully at the right time, " he told BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs.
French was a guest on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs last December, where she spoke on the programme about the end of her marriage to Henry.
At that, all of Alcina's powers are broken, the temple collapses, and her lush island is transformed into a barren desert.
In Cast Away, Hanks plays the boss at a Federal Express office in Moscow who ends up stranded on a desert island.
Appearing on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs, Ford said she would not go back in front of the camera.
Filming started in the wintry peaks of New Zealand's South Island, then moved to Cape Town in South Africa, then further north to the desert of Namibia.
The picture Mariner 9 painted of modern Mars was of a static desert, with none of the jostling of tectonic plates that makes life interesting for geologists by throwing up island chains and mountain ranges, and opening deep basins for oceans to form in.
Aswan started life here, as a garrison town on the tip of Elephantine Island, before spreading on to the east bank, where it faces the sands of the Western Desert.
Today, China -- which is roughly the same size as the United States -- is almost one-quarter desert, and the desert is advancing at more than 1, 300 square miles, approximately the size of the state of Rhode Island, each year.
Alexander Selkirk--the sailor whose true story inspired Daniel Defoe's 1719 novel, Robinson Crusoe--was abandoned on a desert island.
Speaking on BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Discs last month, Sir Terry Leahy also called some High Streets "medieval, " saying the way people lived their lives had changed.
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