Populism, as the residue of the properly political, is the ultimate symptom of the post-political condition. Firstly, the post-political consensus itself tends towards populist gestures as a substitute for the properly political.
Comment(0) Step 3 of 3 The business cycle affects output and employment in capital goods industries and consumer durable goods industries more severely than in industries producing consumer nondurables because the spending on the former goods could be postponed but it is difficult to cut back on the latter.
The state of the economy has an important influence on every career field. In general, a robust and growing economy is good for the majority of workers, while an economy in decline has a negative effect. The amount of influence varies from profession to profession, but there are few career fields where the influence of the economy is more directly felt than in social work.