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Manfred Davidmann
Manfred Davidmann is an internationally well-known and respected scientist and consultant, and author of a number of books and reports which have had and are having considerable impact, playing their part in improving the quality of life and the standard of living, worldwide. His work usually breaks new ground and opens up new understanding and is written in meaningful and easily understood language. Outstanding is that his work is generally accepted as factual, objective and unbiased.
Nearly 7 million copies of his reports have been downloaded from the Solhaam website so far, and have changed and are changing the way in which people live, think and behave.
Books by Manfred Davidmann
- ISLAM: Basis - Past - Present - Future
- God and People: The Social Laws and Social System
Underlying Judaism, Christianity, Islam and Democracy
- THE HUMAN MIND AND HOW IT WORKS:
Group Minds in Action: How the Human Group Mind Shapes the Quality of Our Life and Living
- COOPERATIVES AND COOPERATION:
Causes of Failure, Guidelines for Success
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Management and Leadership:
Local, National, Multinational (Global), Principles and Practice
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The Real World in Which We Live:
The Social Rules and Social System under Which We Suffer, Struggle, Survive and Prosper
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Messianic Struggle: The Worldwide Struggle for a Good and Secure Life for All, Here and Now
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Judaism: Basis - Past - Present - Future, Part 1
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Judaism: Basis - Past - Present - Future, Part 2
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Christianity: Basis - Past - Present - Future
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Towards a Better Future
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Chemical Engineering, Chemical Plant Contracting,
Chemical Industry.
Work and Pay, Work and Remuneration of Directors,
Community Leadership and Management
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Social and Economic Problems of Israel and Democratic Countries
Policies for a Better Future
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Theme of the Week (Current Events, Current Problems)
Theme:
- The social costs of unemployment to people as
individuals, to their families, and to the community as a
whole, are:
- INDIVIDUALS
- Poverty, lack of spending money
- Frustration, despair
- Young people without full-time work experience
- Social disillusionment
- Ill health
- Reduced life span
- Mental illness
- Increasing suicide rate
- Drug abuse, crime
- FAMILIES
- Increased family breakup
- Homelessness
- Domestic violence
- COMMUNITY
- Higher and rising crime rates
- Brutalisation of lifestyle
- Lost Income:
- (1) Loss of income tax from those now
unemployed.
- (2) Loss of National Insurance
contributions which would have been
received from both employees and
employers.
- (3) Loss of Value Added Tax as the
unemployed reduce their spending.
- Increased Expenditure
- (4) Increased cost of Unemployment Benefit
(Among developed countries, the British
rate of benefit appears to be one of the
lowest).
- (5) Increased cost of Social Security
support payments.
- (6) Increased costs for Health Service,
Police and Prisons.
Note that persistent lack of care and consideration
towards its members leads to a view of society as being
hostile and unrewarding. We now see this taking
place and see its effects.
The social cost of unemployment to the community is the
total cost to the community, is the sum of all the items
listed here.
Prices used to be based on 'cost plus reasonable mark-up', and unhindered competition was meant to ensure that the mark-up was reasonable. Prices are now based on what people can be persuaded to pay for what they can be persuaded to buy. The mark-up between producing in a low-wage country, and then selling in a high-wage country, can be enormous.
Manfred Davidmann pointed this out in 1996, also saying that imports were now being priced at what the market will bear, or just under. The enormous profit margins then cause production to move from high-wage to low-wage countries. The consequence is a lowering of standard of living in high-wage countries to that in low-wage countries, instead of a raising of standard of living in low-wage countries to that in high wage countries.
- The large additional profits which result from transferring operations abroad then do not result from doing a better job, or from providing better, or more needed, or more effectively produced, goods or services. These additional profits result from importing unemployment into the UK, are the result of dismissing British employees.
- See Exporting and Importing of Employment and Unemployment
- It is an accepted principle of economics, that the social costs of an enterprise's operations have to be paid by the enterprise, expressed by the maxim 'The polluter pays'. In other words, the social costs of unemployment have to be paid by the enterprise which caused the unemployment.
- See Community Economics: Principles
To the extent to which an enterprise fails to allow for, and pay, the social costs of its operations, to that extent are its profits derived from passing its operating costs to the community, is it making profits at the expense of the community, is it exploiting the community and its members.
The social costs of unemployment, however, are in the end paid by the unemployed (who are part of the community) and to some extent by the community as a whole. So the enterprise has passed on to the community this part of its operating costs, is making a profit at the expense of the community.
Owners and directors in this way profit from the unemployment and the lower standard of living their operations cause in the home-country. They will continue to profit from increasing unemployment and its consequences as long as they do not have to pay these social costs of their operations. In other words, as long as they are allowed to pass this part of their operating costs to the community.
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Exporting and Importing of Employment and Unemployment |
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Discusses exporting and importing of employment and unemployment, the underlying principles, effect of trade between low-wage and high-wage countries.
Shows what is required to halt and reverse the trend
towards increasing unemployment and falling living
standards in high-wage countries.
Shows what is required to make the
system work, as well as the controls required to prevent
misuse of the system and to protect people.
There are sections about transferring operations abroad,
about importing from low-wage countries, about social
costs of unemployment, about community objectives and
community support for enterprises, about ownership rights
and about ensuring that the way in which enterprises operate is
socially responsible.
See 'Press Notices'.
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Community Economics: Principles |
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Allows for the needs of the community and for the basic causes of real-world problems and global needs. Includes sections on owners, directors and managers, actual rewards and differentials, social responsibility, social costs and accountability, misuse of the system, irresponsible behaviour, motivation.
There are sections on problems and their causes, on profit motivation. The roles of owners, directors and managers are described and discussed, as are their social responsibilities and the consequences of irresponsible behaviour.
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