The possibility and power of a new social contract via sustainably conscious consumers is evident.
They will begin to bring down this inequality that is eating away at our social contract.
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Generations to come cannot possibly have the same social contract as their parents or grandparents did.
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Even as the old social contract between employers and workers fades, the new one is still unclear.
Though the social contract in America still holds, it has been substantially weakened and the understanding has changed.
In other words, where capitalism is a social contract, financial reporting is more than just a form of manipulation.
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There is a social contract that we as Americans have with one another.
It poses two logically identical problems, one cast in general terms and the other in terms of a social contract.
But this list is different from the principles behind Britain's post-war social contract which embedded the idea of statutory responsibilities and individual rights.
"We have a definite social contract with the community, " says Jesseman, who acquired the company in 1985 and created an ESOP.
Red Queen Sustainability is an inevitable outcome of business stepping away from the now defunct social contract between business and society.
This requires a reinvention of the social contract around security and benefits.
His fourth caveat is a call for a social contract for globalization.
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"The social contract between companies and workers was broken with the recession of the early 1990s, " says Susan Ascher, a Roseland, N.
Consumers often face situations in which the law prohibits actions they would otherwise take and support for the old social contract is crumbling.
"We have a definite social contract with the community, " says Jesseman, who acquired the company in 1985 and created a share-ownership program for employees.
But part of the underlying social contract is you take a hunk of that and pay forward for the next kid who comes along.
Since then, with the confluence of computers, increased trade and weakened unions, the social contract has collapsed, and worker-employer matches have become harder to make.
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It is rare in American politics to arrive at a moment in which the debate revolves around the fundamental nature of American democracy and the social contract.
Worse, obsessed with the idea that globalisation threatens the social contract in rich countries, Mr Rodrik almost forgets that both rich and poor countries stand to benefit enormously from trade.
Eventually, a new social contract and economic model will emerge but until we have a consensus about what the contract is, we will not know what laws will support it.
In an attempt to resolve the paradox, Mr Gazzaniga locates the origin of personal responsibility outside the brain, as a consequence of a social contract between two or more individuals.
First, note that this claim in effect rejects the entire basis of the social contract tradition, a tradition one might easily think that Jerry is defending and extending rather than rejecting.
It suggests that "state-funded schools which do not adopt some responsibility for the wider well-being of their neighbourhood may not be fulfilling the social contract that people might reasonably expect of them".
Some media and blog commentators argue it has arrived too late for The Times to keep its social contract with readers to report the news "without fear or favor, " in a phrase embedded in Times lore.
The longer term solution would be to develop an appropriate social contract: conducting ourselves online under the same civilized behavioral norms that keep us from, say, stealing stuff from one another's homes even though we could probably get away with it.
In youth sports, that social contract would be re-instituting sports, at least on an intramural level, at schools, from elementary on up, so kids have a more equal shot at being exposed to athletics, and a more equal shot at succeeding.
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He intends to, in part, be his own secretary of state, focused on re-sculpting America's global social contract and working in partnership with a diverse team of hard-edged policy players like Clinton to make even his rivals do his direct bidding.
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