I argue that wealth is a multi-dimensional attribute; identify three classes of wealth that are impacted by dam construction, namely material (land, houses), embodied (knowledge, skills), and relational (infrastructure); and compare losses and compensations for each class.
Of course, he isn't frightening if you think that a reckless Top Gun personality embodies the skill set to be President and Commander in Chief.
They are the essential forces on which survival depends and can be embodied in animal skills (longevity, rebirth, magical skills), in the "ways of the ancients," or through a special hero who has provided present existence with material and spiritual benefits.
Two things are surprising about the blinkered sense of skill embodied in Republican attacks on the liberal arts.
We all know that a lot of behind the scenes rehearsals take place, but even with that, the level of skill embodied in each band member and visual performer is enviable.
They can amplify our cognitive strengths; interact with customers and employees to free us for higher-level tasks; and embody human skills to extend our physical capabilities.
This means that hundreds of thousands of Americans believe that Senator Clinton embodies the skills, expertise and vision that we would like to see represented in the president of the United States.
The conventional wisdom is that disasters, natural and otherwise, typically have only a modest effect on economic activity because human capital -- the knowledge and skills embodied in the citizenry -- survives intact.
We combine the large samples of the restricted version of the Canadian Census (1991-2006) with both a new measure of linguistic proximity of the immigrant's mother tongue to that of the destination country, and with information of the occupational skills embodied in the jobs immigrants hold.
Skills embodied in agents empower people.
