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Because the baser tendency of self-centeredness is a trait to be overcome by the greater jihad, one who engages in this jihad is concerned not only with perfecting himself, but also with perfecting the world. Just as one must wage jihad to mold oneself into a form with which God would be pleased, one must also wage jihad to mold the world into such a form. Islamic scholar Mahmud Taleqani says that in religious texts, “the term jihad is always attached to the locution ‘fi sabil ilah...

Author: By Nura A. Hossainzadeh, | Title: Tawhid and Jihad | 10/15/2004 | See Source »

...large and very real. Of course, the adjustment costs associated with getting these gains are coming from firms closing, from workers having to get new jobs. Historically, these adjustment costs have tended to be discounted. We can no longer afford to ignore them. We must address them explicitly. Rising wage disparities tell us something about where policies should be directed...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Think Globally, Act Locally | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

...innovation, you need educated, experienced, motivated workers. So, are we cranking out these kinds of workers in the U.S.? Income inequality across skills--the earnings of a college graduate relative to a high school graduate--is widening. The really highly skilled group, they've had pretty good real wage growth in the last three or four years. It's everyone else that's had virtually no real wage growth...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Think Globally, Act Locally | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

BAUMOL: Trade policy is not the way to deal with unemployment. But you are right, the bargaining power of U.S. workers and the U.S. worker's wage is very heavily affected by globalization. Paul Samuelson has just written on the subject. He said if you believe this doesn't affect American wages, you also believe in the tooth fairy...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Think Globally, Act Locally | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

MANN: There are two sets of issues with respect to labor- market adjustment. One has to do with people who have lost their job in an area where there's no replacement. That has to be addressed through wage insurance, through unemployment insurance, through the portability of health care and pensions. So if you lose your job, you don't lose everything else with it. But there is a different problem: firms do not have an incentive to, say, take people who are programmers and train them to be systems-integration network engineers. We ought to have some kind...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Think Globally, Act Locally | 10/11/2004 | See Source »

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