economy
Economy and the area of production, distribution, trade, and consumption of goods and services.
Shaumik Saha on the Events Industry during the COVID 19 Lockdown
Alongside travel, tourism, and hospitality, the events industry was one of the first to be directly affected by the COVID 19 outbreak. Bans on travel, public gatherings, and more recently complete lockdowns render events an impossibility.
By Shaumik Saha6 years ago in Journal
Top Occupations That Have Earned a Bigger Name Thanks To The Coronavirus
The COVID-19 coronavirus pandemic has caused the world to stop and disfunction. Almost all the countries at lockdown, people are being forced out of their jobs and being locked up in their homes. Although most people are home, everyday heroes are back at their job and providing service to everyone. Here are some of the jobs that have earned more respect.
By John Tasci6 years ago in Journal
Are We Doing Enough Demarketing in the Face of the COVID-19 Threat?
Introduction Quick, name a doctor? Odds are that these days, the first name most folks would say would be Dr. Fauci! And that’s very reasonable, as in the wake of the global COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic, Dr. Anthony Fauci has become perhaps the face of this historical event - being both the Director of The National Institute of Allergy and Infectious Diseases and an influential member (and perhaps the most influential member) of the President’s Coronavirus Task Force and a constant on all our screens. For many Americans, Dr. Fauci has become the most trusted expert in this uncertain and worrisome time, even as every TV doctor - from Dr. Oz to Dr. Sanjay Gupta seems to be on all day every day!. And when epidemiology is suddenly on all our minds and in the news well, it is the news - 24/7, America seems to have found - and seems on the surface at least to be listening to - this most prominent of epidemiologists.
By David Wyld6 years ago in Journal
Searching for Health Info, Products and Hope on the Internet in the Time of COVID-19
Introduction What did we search for online in regards to health info, medicine, treatment options and yes, products that may - or may not - really help us in the midst of the COVID-19/coronavirus pandemic? In short, Americans - scared, quarantined, and with plenty of time on their hands - used the Internet a whole lot (in the best academic term this expert can muster) while they began to face life in isolation and lockdown in the face of this epidemiological Black Swan event!
By David Wyld6 years ago in Journal
What We Want Online During the Pandemic, And What That Says About Us
Introduction Today, we have pretty much become accustomed to the idea that Internet giants like Google, Amazon, Facebook, Twitter, Netflix and more know everything about us - perhaps even more than what we would like to admit to ourselves. These indispensable Internet giants make gazillions of dollars based on being able to not just manage this data for their own use, but to also be able to tell advertisers what sites we visit, what we search for online, what we buy online, and what video content we watch. And for the most part, we have come to accept the Faustian bargain that this represents to us as we trade off our anonymity for the convenience that these tools give us in our lives.
By David Wyld6 years ago in Journal
COVID-19 ... in this Gig Economy?
Self isolating is alarmingly easy when you are an introverted home-based worker. One thing is for sure, when this blows over I need to get my arse outside and join a book club or something, so little of my routine has changed, its scary. However, this unfortunately does not apply to work flow.
By EP Jenkins6 years ago in Journal
Covid Crisis, Cash Flow, and Culinary Business Mitigation Plan
In Q1 2020, I currently am 25 years old and this is my first time experiencing world crisis after I reach adulthood. The first time I knew about coronavirus in December 2019, I thought it is only going to affect healthcare and political systems; yet, after the Wufan’s lockdown, I knew it is soon going to be economical. And it is our first world crisis after social media interconnectedness-digital era that human mankind is facing new lethal virus with its unique challenges including hoax, mass paranoid, and over sharing for their preventive actions to protect themselves from the virus. The virus is not as fatal as plague in 14th century, influenza, SARS or H1N1 but the crowds’ character has changed. They started to stockpile masks, hand sanitizers, and food like it’s WW3; and the panic spreads faster than the virus itself.
By Yulia Ratnasari6 years ago in Journal
Alarming Job Loss Stats and Facts
Even the most developed countries, which we call “the first-world countries,” have to battle unemployment daily. Even though the unemployment rate is relatively low in many countries of the world, the question of the rising population brings up many other issues. Governments everywhere have to create new jobs to prevent brain drain.
By Stefan Ateljevic6 years ago in Journal
Dire Straits: The Future of Australian Literary Journals
Close the submissions. Batten down the hatches. The absence of funding has claimed another literary journal. In the Australian print world, journals have subsisted since Southerly came into existence in 1939. These journals have given pages to some of Australia’s most talented emerging writers, launching careers with a body of work which allowed their book to get picked up by publishers. There is no argument to be made to the significance of Australian literary journals, their immense contribution to Australian writers and writing is undeniable. They have weathered storms that mirror the struggles of their country, World War II, civil rights movements, flood, fire, the digital age and an ever-shifting change of taste from their readership. A strong canon of publications has followed Southerly, some offering poetry, short fiction, commentary, art or a combination of those forms (Peterson, 2019). They are the vessels of the best writing Australia has to offer, sailing through generations and hundreds of issues. However, what capsizes some of these print publications is money.
By Em Readman6 years ago in Journal
