Questão de Língua Inglesa
Enunciado
Read the text below in order to answer questions 27 to 30:
FINANCIAL ENGINEERS
Financial engineers don't wear white lab coats. They don't experiment on rats or perform gas chromatography. Their raw material – money – isn't as jazzy as what biologists and physicists investigate. But the innovations they produce will contribute just as much to economic growth.
Maybe more, in fact. Because without the science of finance, all other sciences are just a bunch of neat concepts. Ideas begin to contribute to human betterment when they're financed – by venture capital, stock offerings, loans, or buyouts. A smoothly operating system showers money on good ideas. Equally important, it cuts off funding to tired ideas and tired companies, so their assets can be deployed more efficiently elsewhere. ( The lack of such a process in Japan helps explain why that nation remains part of the old economy.)
The process of allocating funding only to the most productive sectors
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