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4.1 Institutions, markets and development: Working Out of Poverty
One of the leading thinkers about the importance of institutions and rules to making markets work for development, Nobel laureate Professor Douglass North, has explained that societies evolve institutions to “reduce uncertainty by providing a structure to everyday life”. He argues that this is essential to organizing the productive division of labour and that “institutions affect the performance of the economy by their effect on the costs of exchange and production”. He also stresses that many of the rules guiding daily behaviour are informal and that effective institutions for governing markets are a blend of socially accepted norms and laws underpinned by shared values.

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It is ironic that in an industry that has as one of its main aim the protection of reputation, people with public relations jobs are often not regarded very highly by the rest of society. They are called spin doctors for the way they are uniquely able to turn the truth into what they want it to be. As a result, while they might be considered good at what they do and well regarded within the industry, within society at large, they are looked down upon.

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Financial Success Strategy: Diversify Or Die...Regarding Financial Success, One Of Anything, Leads To Negligent Fatality!
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We have to renew limited government in the United States, or the entire world will enter a new era of darkness the likes of which no one can foresee. There are at least ten limits we could impose on government (and, in some cases, on what I see as quasi-governmental U.S. institutions) that would have a remarkable turn-around impact on our economy - and on our society. And one of the first, if not THE first, is to limit government spending....
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