Amsterdam has created a bicycle friendly city that promotes a healthier, more active lifestyle for its residents. With people meeting face to face instead of bumper to bumper, the city challenges u...
Amsterdam has created a bicycle friendly city that promotes a healthier, more active lifestyle for its residents. With people meeting face to face instead of bumper to bumper, the city challenges us to rethink our car centered-lives here in the United States.
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Great Dutch good? LOL. I'm an American living in Amsterdam. While I agree with everything else about this video, Dutchies have no clue about food. Oh... and it's pronounced "FEETSDAHK" (throaty soft K sound).
See below posts, but another point is that getting people to ride a bicycle saves on health costs. By spending money on cycleways Denmark is saving money in the future. For every Kilometre travelled by bike rather than a car, the country saves around 80 US cents. As an economics student I thought you would appreciate that fact.
So spending on getting people to cycle should be seen as an investment. This is aside from the enormous social benefits.
As an economics student I hope your lecturer's give you a balanced presentation of the economic theories. JM Keynes said long ago that people and markets dont behave rationally. If you look historically at the economic theories prior to the great depression and now you will see we have repeated our mistakes. Economists expected people and markets to behave rationally then, and surprise surprise they didnt. By the way, the Keynesian days saw unemployment at record low levels.
The problem with market theory is that people dont behave rationally, as you have admitted to..
You will find that historically countries have had lower unemployment rates when they have had gvts that have asstd.
Going back to the point of this blog, I say that when you see a country with less crime, happier people, better action on the environment, it is smart to copy what they are doing not bag what they are doing.
Are americans not lazy for driving 500 metres to get a burger?
As an economics student you should get an understanding of this.
The mistake that Denmark could make, is to adopt the Euro as its currency. This step would lead to its own loss of some of its soverignty. As it has a floating soverign currency, Denmark could use a budget defecit to pump up its economy if it fell into a deep recession. If it adopts the Euro its currency hence does not become soverign and this limits its ability to fight any downturn.
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So spending on getting people to cycle should be seen as an investment. This is aside from the enormous social benefits.
You will find that historically countries have had lower unemployment rates when they have had gvts that have asstd.
Going back to the point of this blog, I say that when you see a country with less crime, happier people, better action on the environment, it is smart to copy what they are doing not bag what they are doing.
Are americans not lazy for driving 500 metres to get a burger?
As an economics student you should get an understanding of this.
The mistake that Denmark could make, is to adopt the Euro as its currency. This step would lead to its own loss of some of its soverignty. As it has a floating soverign currency, Denmark could use a budget defecit to pump up its economy if it fell into a deep recession. If it adopts the Euro its currency hence does not become soverign and this limits its ability to fight any downturn.