The Future of a People

One People? ◽  
1993 ◽  
pp. 196-228
Author(s):  
Jonathan Sacks
Keyword(s):  
A Value ◽  
Religious Idea ◽  
The Future ◽  
Secular Age

This chapter reflects on the value of Jewish unity. Unity is, as it always was, a religious value: a fact of covenant, a mutual commitment and faith. That it has become problematic should therefore occasion no surprise. It is a symptom of the tenuous hold of religion over the modern Jewish mind. But that it remains as a value is perhaps the most telling evidence that Jewry has not yet abandoned its religious roots. Habits of thought, senses of obligation, and gestures of action can persist long after the beliefs which gave them cogency have lost their hold. The concept of Jewry as ‘one people’ is a religious idea; surviving in a secular age, it is in need of resuscitation. The chapter then considers Jewish self-understanding, covenantal dualism, and the importance of inclusivism. Inclusivism is a statement of Jewish ecology: of the complex totality of Jewish peoplehood.

scholarly journals The Value Added Tax: A Preliminary Look at Effects on the Agricultural Sector

1972 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 165-170 ◽  
Author(s):  
J. B. Penn ◽  
G. D. Irwin ◽  
R. A. Richardson
Keyword(s):  
Agricultural Sector ◽  
Task Force ◽  
Value Added ◽  
Business Taxation ◽  
Value Added Tax ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Press ◽  
The Future

Discussion of the possibility of a value added tax (VAT) has recently become a lively topic for the press, public, and politicians. The President's 1970 Task Force on Business Taxation recommended that the tax not be imposed immediately, but that the possibility of using the VAT in the future be given more exposure and discussion. A number of states have also considered enacting a VAT, and a few have done so.

The Diversity Horizon

2021 ◽  
pp. 231-250
Keyword(s):  
College Students ◽  
Potential Role ◽  
Job Market ◽  
Careful Planning ◽  
Crystal Ball ◽  
A Value ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future

As they prepare for graduation, college students often make numerous plans for the future. They consider the job market and prospects for marriage, family, and other relationships. Pursuing a diversity-rich future is also important, and in this chapter, the five interviewees discuss the potential role of culture in their post-college lives. Additional considerations include looking at the world through a global lens, approaching diversity as a value, and engaging the outrage of those who have suffered at the hands of injustice. Though even the best crystal ball cannot predict what will happen tomorrow, today's careful planning with sensitivity towards culture may be sufficient for ensuring a brighter road ahead.

Distribution of agricultural productivity gains in selected Feed the Future African countries

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (1) ◽  
pp. 78-90 ◽  
Author(s):  
Charles B. Moss ◽  
Andrew Schmitz
Keyword(s):  
Value Chain ◽  
African Countries ◽  
Maize Production ◽  
Content Type ◽  
Traded Goods ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Future ◽  
Cassava Production ◽  
Feed The Future ◽  
Productivity Gains

Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine investments in selected Feed the Future countries in Africa. Design/methodology/approach The authors examine three investments in Feed the Future countries (e.g. Rwanda and Uganda) in the context of non-traded goods, exports and imports. These investments include research and development in Ugandan cassava production, a value chain intervention in the coffee market channel in Rwanda and a program to increase the use of fertilizer for maize production in Rwanda. The authors also stress the importance of distributional impacts in terms of policymaking. Findings The results show that while there can be net gains from each investment discussed, the distributional effects of each are very different. Originality/value The findings will be useful for the development community and agribusiness policymaking.

Relationship marketing: looking backwards towards the future

2017 ◽  
Vol 31 (1) ◽  
pp. 11-15 ◽  
Author(s):  
Adrian Payne ◽  
Pennie Frow
Keyword(s):  
Relationship Marketing ◽  
Research Priorities ◽  
Customer Relationships ◽  
Customer Relationship ◽  
Dark Side ◽  
Future Research ◽  
Policy Makers ◽  
Content Type ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Future

Purpose This paper aims to review the growth and development of the field of relationship marketing and, through a consideration of this body of work, identifies key research priorities for the future of relationship marketing. The paper also delineates the frequently confused associated concepts of customer relationship management and customer management and considers how they fit within the broader concept of relationship marketing. Design/methodology/approach This paper undertakes a review of the relationship marketing literature, supplemented by the authors’ on-going interactive research with managers. Findings The paper reviews alternative approaches to relationship marketing, reflects on the development of the field of relationship marketing and identifies three critical priorities for future research in relationship marketing. Practical implications The research priorities that are identified in this paper represent important priorities for scholars, managers, regulators and policy makers. Originality/value Although there is now a substantial body of research on relationship, marketing, much of this work focuses on the customer-firm dyad, with a smaller body of work focusing on a broader range of stakeholders. This paper argues for the broadening of the role of relationship marketing to consider ecosystems; the need for firms to shift from a value-in-exchange to a value-in-use perspective when addressing customer relationships; and the critical need to address “dark side” behaviour and dysfunctional processes in relationship marketing.

scholarly journals Analisis Rantai Markov untuk Mengetahui Peluang Perpindahan Merek Kartu Seluler Pra Bayar GSM (Studi Kasus Mahasiswa Fakultas Pertanian Unsrat Manado)

Jurnal MIPA ◽  
2013 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 17
Author(s):  
Denis G. Allo ◽  
Djoni Hatidja ◽  
Marline Paendong
Keyword(s):  
Markov Chain ◽  
Large Percentage ◽  
Primary Data ◽  
Markov Chain Analysis ◽  
A Value ◽  
Chain Analysis ◽  
The Future ◽  
College Population

Penelitian ini bertujuan untuk mengetahui peluang perpindahan konsumen merek kartu seluler GSM ke merek kartu seluler GSM lainnya serta membuat prediksi peluang perpindahan konsumen merek kartu seluler GSM dikalangan mahasiswa pada masa yang akan datang. Data yang digunakan dalam penelitian ini adalah data primer yang dikumpulkan melalui penyebaran kuesioner pada mahasiswa Fakultas Pertanian Universitas Sam Ratulangi Manado. Total sampel dalam penelitian ini adalah 87 orang mahasiswa. Berdasarkan hasil analisis Rantai Markov dengan menggunakan software QM 2.2 for window , diperoleh bahwa pada mahasiswa Fakultas Pertanian UNSRAT pengguna GSM untuk merek AS dan Simpati yang pada awal mendominasi persentase pengguna dan bahkan pada tahun-tahun berikutnya cenderung tetap mendominasi jumlah pengguna GSM. Pada tingkat kedua merek GSM IM3 dan GSM Tri yang mendominasi pengguna GSM, dimana keduanya masing-masing mencapai nilai antara 5-10% dari total pengguna.Dan selanjutnya, merek GSM XL, hanya mampu mencapai angka di bawah 5% saja.Sedangkan merek GSM Axis dan Mentari belum mampu untuk masuk pada pasar dalam populasi mahasiswa Fakultas Pertanian UNSRAT Manado.This study aims to determine the changes of consumers switching between brands of GSM and make predictions of consumer migration opportunities of each brand GSM among students in the future. The data used in the study is primary data collected through a questionnaire on the students of the Faculty of Agriculture, University of Sam Ratulangi Manado. The number of samples taken was 87 students. Based on markov chain analysis using QM 2.2 sofware for windows, found that the students of the Faculty of Agriculture UNSRAT brand GSM users AS and Simpati as a large percentage of users in early and even in later years tend to continue to dominate the numbers of GSM users. On the second level brand GSM users IM3 and Tri dominating users, where each of them reaches a value between 5-10% of the total users. The next brand GSM XL, only able to reach below 5%. While the brand GSM Axis and Mentari has not been able to enter the market in the agriculture faculty of the college population University of Sam Ratulangi Manado.

scholarly journals TOLERANCE AS A VALUE OF A FUTURE HIGHER EDUCATION TEACHER

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (14) ◽  
pp. 22-26
Author(s):  
Liudmyla Levytska ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Higher Education ◽  
Professional Training ◽  
Future Teacher ◽  
Future Teachers ◽  
Education Teacher ◽  
A Value ◽  
The Future

Approaches to the interpretation of the term "tolerance" are revealed. The preparation of the future teacher for the formation of tolerance as an important component of the system of his professional training is outlined. The organizational and pedagogical conditions of activity of the institution of higher education which provide preparation of future teachers for formation of tolerance in them are defined.

scholarly journals The AI Creation Meme: A Case Study of the New Visibility of Religion in Artificial Intelligence Discourse

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 253 ◽  
Author(s):  
Beth Singler
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Human Hand ◽  
Cultural Artefact ◽  
Religious Imagery ◽  
The Future ◽  
Secular Age ◽  
Post Humanism

Through a consideration of examples of the AI Creation Meme, a remix of Michelangelo’s Creazione di Adamo featuring a human hand and a machine hand nearly touching, fingertip to fingertip, this article will tackle the religious continuities and resonances that still emerge in AI discourse in an allegedly ‘secular age’. The AI Creation Meme, as a highly visible cultural artefact appearing in a variety of forms and locations, will be analyzed and discussed for its religious, apocalyptic, and post-humanist narratives, along with reference to earlier work on the New Visibility of Religion—specifically, Alexander Darius Ornella’s consideration of the New Visibility of Religion and religious imagery of the 2006 film, Children of Men. Work that outlines the aspects of critical post-humanism, speculative post-humanism, and transhumanism in relation to the contemporary post-secular age will also be addressed to expand on the implicit apocalyptic messages of the AI Creation Meme. Such a consideration of repeating and remixed imagery will add to the scholarly conversation around AI narratives and the entanglements of religion and technology in our imaginaries of the future.

Whitman and Democracy: The “Withness of the World” and the Fakes of Death

Secular Lyric ◽  
2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
John Michael
Keyword(s):  
William James ◽  
The World ◽  
The Future ◽  
Secular Age

Extending the reading of metonymy in the previous chapter to enchain the figure of the reader as the future presence of Whitman’s poem, this chapter also considers Whitman’s vexed relationship to particularity and to the ethics of democracy in a secular age. I argue that this remains an ethics of alterity not identity, an ethics of the surface and of the limits that surfaces pose when considering alterity. Whitman emerges as the poet of democratic problematics rather than the simple singer of democracy or the word en masse. The modernity of his voice emerges in his consistent refusal to allow meaning to reduce alterity, an alterity that in a secular age is the primary fact of what William James called the withness of life.

The burden of choice

2021 ◽  
pp. 121-138
Author(s):  
Christopher Dye
Keyword(s):  
Health Promotion ◽  
Disease Prevention ◽  
Consumer Demand ◽  
Empirical Studies ◽  
Business Practices ◽  
A Value ◽  
Health Gains ◽  
The Future ◽  
Behavioural Risks

Consumers are ultimately responsible for ‘behavioural’ risks to their health, but the behaviours in question are also those of manufacturers and governments, and the burden of choice on consumers is lighter when shared. Governments, in particular, have the motives, means, and powers to intervene between commercial supply and consumer demand. Among the most effective instruments of government are taxation and regulation, especially for the control of single, major causes of illness such as tobacco and sugar. Taxes put a value on the future, today: consumers and manufacturers can choose to pay immediately for the costs incurred to society in future, or switch to healthier lifestyles and business practices. In practice, governments under pressure from lobbyists tend to under-tax harmful commodities, so other enticements are needed too. In this context, empirical studies show health promotion is complementary to disease prevention—making health gains while avoiding health losses—especially when the joint benefits for health are large.

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