Добавил:
Upload Опубликованный материал нарушает ваши авторские права? Сообщите нам.
Вуз: Предмет: Файл:
posobie_Finansy.docx
Скачиваний:
1
Добавлен:
01.05.2025
Размер:
249 Кб
Скачать
☆

9. Read and translate vocabulary notes. Try to remember different meanings of the term ‘policy’

  1. A policy is a set of ideas or plans that is used as a basis for making decisions, especially in politics, economics, or business.

Ex.: a) ...plans which include changes in foreign policy and economic reforms.

b) ...the UN's policy-making body.

2. An official organization's policy on a particular issue or towards a

country is their attitude and actions regarding that issue or country.

Ex.: a) … the government's policy on repatriation.

  1. ...the corporation's policy of forbidding building on common

land.

3. An insurance policy is a document which shows the agreement that

you have made with an insurance company.

Ex.: You are advised to read the small print of household and motor

insurance policies.

  1. Policy-making is the making of policies.

Ex.: He will play a key background role in government policy-making.

  1. a policy to + inf.

Ex.: It is our established policy to treat everyone fairly.

  1. a policy that + clause; subj.

Ex.: It is company policy that all workers be/should be paid according to the same criteria.

10. Read and translate the dialogue. Discuss the following question: What should the government do? Take action? Or trust the markets to put matters right?

Bayla:

The biggest problem we have is one the government is not equipped to solve: it's that the government is just too big.

McCloskey:

Yes-high five! [They do it.]

Maria:

I don't know about that. Think of how important all the welfare programs are . . . .

Bayla:

Those programs don't even work. The government should stop meddling with the economy. Let the markets work! Laissez faire, I say!

Maria:

That's ridiculous. Without government intervention we'd be at the mercy of capricious market forces. We'd be defenseless against the rich and the powerful. There would be anarchy.

Bayla:

I'd love it. I'd be one of the rich.

Maria:

How can you be so blind to the problems they've just mentioned? For example, the poor of Jamaica and Bangladesh?

Bayla:

Well, maybe the government is one of the blind ones.

Maria:

It's easy to say that. In the meantime there are problems of unemployment, inflation, and trade deficits that have to be dealt with by somebody.

Paul:

Yeah, and how about measures to protect workers, all kinds of rules and regulations that we need for smoothly working markets?

Klamer:

Right on. You refer to the institutional policies. They are important indeed.

Соседние файлы в предмете [НЕСОРТИРОВАННОЕ]