ENGL 141 Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: David Graeber, Francis Fukuyama, Human Frailty
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Money and currency - an item used for payment of good or services, accounting, repayment of debts, and stored value. Bureaucracy - the administrative system governing any large institution or group, whether it is in the public sector (as in governmental) or private sector (as in business). Triple bottom line - while the bottom line typically refers to the financial profit of a company, the triple bottom line concept supports companies in looking at social and ecological indicators of success as well as financial. Sometimes this is summarized as people, planet, and profit. Was a professor at yale until the school did not want to renew his contract. Actual reason of why his contract was not renewed is unknown. Theory is that he defended a grad student that was an union organizer that the school wanted to kick out from the grad program. Yale has a lot of union issues.
