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.
A business cycle refers to the periodic expansion and contraction a company experiences. While the concept often is used in relation to the larger economy, its phases have applications to each particular business or industry. As generally defined, the business cycle has four components -- contraction, recession, expansion and peak. It takes years for the domestic economy to cycle through all four components, but these components can occur on an annual basis for seasonal businesses.