ECONOMY

a) Economic development
b) Economic models
c) Sins in the economy field
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a) Economic development

        In the beginning, God created everything and gave it all to man, to enjoy, to name and to work with. For this reason everything is for everyone’s use, without abusing it or excluding anybody. Everything is for everybody.

        The economy is the means that allows us to organize and distribute everything, and to improve our quality of life. For this reason, the economy has four characteristics:

-harmonic, in all sectors;
-global, belonging to all the different people in the world;
-sustainable, in the long run;
-ecological, with n
ever ending means.

        Economic development is good, although we shouldn’t forget about the neediest, and it should exclude:

-well-being just for the sake of well-being,
-buying and selling people or money.

b) Economic models

        The economy should follow its own working rules, since it is a human law. So, it varies with the times and it is according to the circumstances.

        Today, there are 4 kinds of economic models:

-monopoly, when one company controls all of the market (i.e. Microsoft);
-oligarchy, when different companies merge together (i.e. petrol companies);
-autarchy, when a country hires whoever they want (i.e. the national football team);
-competition, whe
n different companies fight within the sector (i.e. clothes shops).

        None of the 4 models is perfect, and none of the four are good or bad. They all must exist.

c) Sins in the economic field

        May be made in the macro-economy field:

-appropriation: privately using what is public,
-liquidating: sales, discounts…
-commissions: giving money or compensation for a service,
-swindling: stealing funds from a company,
-influencing in a market: having profitable news,
-speculation: getting rich through value assessment,
-fraud: frustrating the other interested party’s hopes,
-bribery: corrupting someone for interest,
-falsification: giving out false money, checks or invoices,
-people trafficking: buying-selling people,
-stock exchange: buying-selling money,
-capitalism: making money a priority over people,
-socialism: totalitarian idea of the public,
-strike: unavoidable resort to violence or stopping work,
-hunger: unequally sharing wealth.

        May be made in the micro-economy field:

-usury: loaning something with interests,
-interest: charge more than you should,
-oppressive contracts: profiting from the neediest,
-precarious salaries: paying less for what someone actually worked,
-paying with goods: paying with something else that wasn’t stipulated,
-price increases: specifically raising the price of something above what it should be,
-damages: destroying someone else’s product,
-fiscal fraud: cheating the government.

 

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