Guest guest Posted May 5, 2003 Report Share Posted May 5, 2003 The Research Project Index The Economics Of Love: Varna-Asrama Dharma The 38 areas of research for this project are listed below. The Index Raghu 1) Total Cost of Vice Research Project: Calculate the total cost of vice to America and then to each country. Calculate how much it would save the average American family and then by each country. 2) What is the Added Retail Cost Research Project: How much would be added to the retail cost of each vice if buyers paid for all their social cost upfront. 3) Legal, Political, Commercial Precedence for ROOPA Research Project: Reference these precedents PREMISE: All Activities Have Economic Outcomes 4) Quality Of Life in Religious Practice Research Project: Find studies (I found a couple) demonstrating the 'better quality of life' for those with a religious practice vs. those without one. Show the contrast between religious and non religious communities-if any. 5) Principles That Make Religion 'Good' Research project: What are the common principles and life style attributes so common to most religions that offer the positive benefits that make up the 'good' of those religions. To what degree does each religion practice each of the identified principles? How does it compare to Varna ashram? 6) Contributions & Liabilities of Different Religions Research Project: Find studies that trace the social economic contributions and liabilities of different religions by way of work, recreation, community service, cultural diversity, health and life style habits etc. 7) Cost of Vice Over A Life Time Research Project: Find studies demonstrating the social cost of one engaged in vices over the course of their life time and the savings by those who refrain. Follow it by each vice. Those with a gambling habit multiplied by a drinking habit, multiplied by a smoking habit etc. 8) Persons Added Performance Per Social Benefit Research Project: How much does each social service increase the economic performance of a person and community? Social services include health care, social security, education, infrastructure, etc. How much do cuts in each of these areas degrade that economic performance. 9) Inflation: Labor or Bank Interest? Research project: Inflation is often blamed on labor cost. Others say flooding the money supply and bank interest is the cause. Who are the parties of this debate? What are their points? 10) War Economy vs. Social Programs; Reagan's Cold War Research Project: Which produces the greatest wealth for a country: war economy or social development programs. 11) FDR Policies Review Research Project: Were FDR's social (welfare) policies the cause of America's dramatic economic turn around or was it exclusively the war as assumed by many? 12) What is the Correlation Between Market Expansion and R & D. 13) Cost Of No Heath Care vs Economic Return & Revenue for Added 50 Million Americans with it. 14) Republican vs. Democratic Administration Performance via measuring debt ratio, standard of living, education, ecological degradation etc. A) Money rises to the top: B) Economic activity is the exchange of money. Therefore, money at the lowest rung of the social latter creates greater economic activity then money kept at the top because it must exchange that many more hands to get to the top. C) Greater the economic activity, greater the wealth of the wealthiest. D) Inflation: $$ failing to circulate to the poorest. 14 a.) Confirm Theory 14 b) Correlation Between Wage/Benefits & Economic Performance 15) Cost Per Vice (inter)Nationally Research Project: What is the individual social cost of each vice to the US, then by each country-globally. Then we can say drinking cost $164 billion in the US and $400 billion globally, etc. 16) Cost of Alcohol Research Project: Reconfirm figures for Drinking in the US & then by each country. 17) Cost of Gambling Research Project: We need to know the cost of gambling, 'illicit' sex and meet eating. 18) Cost of Stock Market Research Project: The social cost of the stock market to the US & then by each country. See if the rate of loss is about equal to a Las Vegas Casino. It should be. 19) Research Project: Cost of Illicit Sex: 20) Economic Ramifications of 4 Regs Research Project: How would the principles of freedom (the four regulated principles of no meat eating, intoxication, illicit sex or gambling) translate by way of debt reduction, added services for less cost and reduced disparity? 21) Effectiveness of Rising Price vs Regulation Research Project : Provide examples where the rising price reduced consumption. How effective was this reduction against other government regulations or public programs attempting the same goal. 22) Tobacco Settlement for Smokers Healthcare vs. Today's System 23) How Much Savings in Taxes & Insurance if Settlement Spent on Smokers Healthcare. 24) What Insurance Companies, Smokers & Attorneys Would Support ROOPA? Identify ROOPA supporters 25) No Taxation Without Representation Research Project: money collected for a cause must use 80% of it for that cause. What legal/political precedence for this? 26) Benefits for Smokers if 80% of Settlement Used for Smokers Research Project: It would be interesting to see who many healthcare benefits and up grades could be provided to smokers if 80% of the money collected from the tobacco court settlements was in fact used for covering smoking related health care. Using it for everything else but smoking is in fact a 'bate and switch.' It is cheating smokers out of the benefits for which they paid. 27) Reforms of No Taxation Without Representation Research Project: How would our budget look if the government had to spend 80% of all monies collected under the name of each of the causes for which they raise our taxes. No more then 20% of such collections should be used at government discretion. 28) What are Cost Savings of Mom care vs Gov't Family Care Research project: How much do we spend in government or social services on family care per person and per family. What are the ramifications of failing to have family care? Examples: crime, drug abuse etc. Who is more cost effective for providing these services: families or government? What is the price difference? 29) Good & Bad of both Family & Gov't Care. Research Project: how would this effect our taxes and budgets as well as the quality of family care if provided by families vs. government. What are the strengths & weaknesses of each and then how do they compare to each other. 30) Number & Success of Mom (family) Programs Research Project: How many family/ mother oriented programs are there? How successful have they been. What areas are they most successful? 31) Model for Family Care: Family Franchise Research Project: How much would the US save in taxes and insurance if such services were provided by the family for half the cost? What would such a model look like? What other programs do this? Research The Family Franchise model presented in Volumes 4 through 6. 32) Correlation of Family Care vs Gov't to Varna Asrama Research project: how does family care vs government care correlate with varna asrama? 33)Moral Correlation to Economics Research Project: How accurately does morality correlate economically? 20% or 50 or 90% of the time. How much more effective is ROOPA over today's system of taxation and regulations? 34) Social Cost: Modern vs Organic Research Project: Delineate the social environmental cost of modern manufacturing and agriculture against that of the organic and cottage industry production. 35) ROOPA Index: 6 Phases Of Social Cost 1 Resourcing- were & how the raw materials are gotten 2 Manufacturing - were & how the product is produced 3 Distribution - how the product is distributed 4 Consumption - the impact upon its consumers and society. 5 Disposal - how the product is then disposed upon being consumed. 6 Politics - last but not least, each product has its own political cost involved in securing it. 36) Assessing Systems & Products Research Project: Assessing a products social cost using each of these measures will allow us to find the true cost of each product and accurately compare the most cost effective systems and products against one another. ROOPA finally introduces the only true system of 'free market economics' wherein every area of a products socio-eco subsidies are calculated. Today's 'free market system' is only a pretense of this ROOPA system. Chart the ROOPA phases that index the 'true cost' at each step and provide a contrast between products and technologies. 37) US vs. Vedic Life Style Research Project: Contrast the social cost/contribution of the average follower of Vedic Culture against the average person of the American lifestyle. 38) ROOPA USA Research project: How would the US look under ROOPA. Would insurance companies, attorneys, most government regulations, bureaucrats and political corruption be out of business? How much money would be saved? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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