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.
Why is it that some companies immediately address high cycle times in production while others simply don't know what to do? It's because the best companies apply a dollar value to downtime and make it known by everyone. Only obvious costs of idle time can be the impetus to improving cycle times.