WHO is convening 11 leading figures in economics, health and development from around the world as the first members of the WHO Council on the Economics of Health for All. The Council’s role is to provide independent advice to the Director-General on addressing interrelated health and economic challenges and mapping out a way forward that supports communities and countries to build healthy societies.
The Council is holding its inaugural meeting today, kickstarting a robust and wide-ranging process to gather insights and develop actionable plans and forward looking practices built on real-world examples and lessons learned from the COVID-19 pandemic.
Here's why it may be time for much-maligned home economics classes to make a comeback -
The oft-misunderstood field spans science and nutrition and promotes that cooking and cleaning is undervalued as a form of labor. Home economics has been a "back door for women to enter science" that turned into an "empire of jobs and influence," Danielle Dreilinger writes in "The Secret History of Home Economics."
Home economists can be credited with the invention of the federal poverty level, the consumer-protection movement, school lunch and the Rice Krispies Treat.
"Everything you know about home economics is wrong" - Marketplace
The age of coronavirus brought renewed attention to the work of running a household. Stories about a resurgence of cooking and sewing flooded the media, and domestic labor has become part of the national conversation about infrastructure.
That's all you need to know to realize that everything you thought about home economics is wrong. Home economics was far more than baking lumpy blueberry muffins, sewing throw pillows, or lugging a bag of flour around in a baby sling to learn the perils of parenting. In its purest form, home economics was about changing the world through the household.
Economics Major Encourages Others to Pursue His Passion for Data Science - Georgia State
ATLANTA—Gregorio Macias Garcia (B.S. in Economics '21) of East Point, Georgia, has a head for numbers. What he really enjoys, though, is being able to quantify real world events and then make decisions with that knowledge. That's why he plans to pursue a master's degree in economics and eventually become a data scientist.
"I took the econometrics for my major and really enjoyed the courses, so want to get a deeper understanding of econometrics and economics in general," he said. "I knew I was interested in economics but didn't know I was interested in the deep data aspects of it. The advanced degree will help me improve my skills in economic forecasting."
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An Ex-Spotify Exec Breaks Down Modern Music's 'Tarzan Economics' - Rolling Stone
When did you start forming the idea for this book?
I felt like I needed to develop a plan B after Spotify went public [in 2018]. My passion has always been in teaching economics, especially to people who don’t think they can understand it, and it’s always been an ambition of mine to teach it at scale.
Tarzan Economics talks a lot about music’s “Napster moment” in 1999 and argues that industries need to find ways to work with disruption, not against it. Is music in another “Napster moment” now?
I am convinced the labels won the war against piracy when they stopped fighting it. Attacking people for stealing would not solve the problem — I think the legal perspective of “we’ll teach them a lesson!” was black or white.
DePaul economics professor Michael Miller: ‘This is the chance for workers to get their cut
DePaul economics professor Michael Miller joins John Williams to explain what would entice people to return to work after receiving unemployment benefits for a long time due to the pandemic. And he describes what those people can do to make those offers worth their while.
ATLANTA (AP) — Atlanta Mayor Keisha Lance Bottoms announced Thursday she will not seek a second term, an election-year surprise that marks a sharp turnabout for the city's second Black woman executive who months ago was among those President Joe Biden considered for his running mate.
Whiting column: Political strategies can't be isolated from economics | PostIndependent.com
Economics may seem complex, but it's actually common sense, which explains why politicians have difficulty considering the economic effects of their legislation.
Regardless, economics always wins; it dictates results and ramifications of legislative actions regardless of political postulation.
Newton's third law "for every action there is an equal and opposite reaction" equally applies to economics. If supply goes down, price goes up. If taxes increase, disposable income decreases. If interest rates rise, business declines. Demand goes up, price goes up; may not seem opposite, but it is given consumers' desires.
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