Marxism and National Socialism Lenin's version of socialism, which became the model for the Soviet Union, China, Cuba and other underdeveloped nations that underwent revolutions in the 20th Century, was highly centralized, hierarchical and authorita Continue Reading...
The stability is evident in the statistics as well. Between 1880 and 1914, the golden age of the gold standard, inflation averaged 0.1%. Between 1946-2003, even with Bretton Woods, inflation average 4.1% (Bardo, n.d.). Short-term price changes, howe Continue Reading...
The Japanese economy stagnated since 1990: when real Gross Domestic Product (GDP) grew at an average of just 1.2%. Since 1995, growth was extremely slow averaging less than 0.7% on year-to-year basis." ("Banking Crisis... "5) During the last quar Continue Reading...
China's Economy The Sustainability of China's Present Economy The Sustainability of China's Present Economy In the past thirty years the Chinese economy has exhibited phenomenal growth, especially when compared to what the country had seen for the Continue Reading...
China and the Economy Chinese Enterprise therefore is needed to better facilitate growth in China. In regards to China, private enterprise growth has lagged substantially behind that of State owned enterprises (SOE). Private enterprise, particularly Continue Reading...
He determines that "the age old problem of theodicy consists of the very question of how it is that a power which is said to be at once omnipotent and kind could have created such an irrational world of undeserved suffering, unpunished injustice and Continue Reading...
Louis Althusser (1918-90) was one of the foremost Marxist theorists in the Western world, and advocated an especially orthodox version of Marxism that was always close to the Communist Party line. He regarded Bertolt Brecht as one of the great Marxis Continue Reading...
United States, the Sioux Indians 1850, industrial a nature society ( assimilated) relationship environment. Include elements making contrast. 1.The environmental values societies. Sioux vs. Industrialism The issue of industrial societies contrasti Continue Reading...
S. history. He has held teaching appointments at Brandeis University, the University of Hawaii, and the University of Maine. He serves on the boards of several environmental organizations. His publications include An Unsettled Country: Changing Lands Continue Reading...
A b) Consider the articles on behavioral economics at http://myweb.liu.edu/~uroy/eco54/histlist/behav-econ/index.html. Summarizethe main thrust of some of these articles. Based on these articles, what's your opinion of behavioral economics? Do you Continue Reading...
War's Effect on the United States and the World The Second World War (1939-1945) was a watershed event in the history of the 20th century. It saw the emergence of the United States and the Soviet Union as the two major world powers and the eclipse Continue Reading...
history of events in the twentieth century, one might surmise that the twenty-first may not be all that different. Why? Because human nature and the pursuit of self-interest has not changed from one century to the next. To explain what drives intern Continue Reading...
War and Occupation: The Effects of the U.S. Occupation on Japan's Government and Politics The recent change in the American foreign policy direction which has seen the replacement of its traditional anti-colonialist tilt by the neo-conservative beli Continue Reading...
A consequence has been the increasingly common act by states and cities of slashing budgets which either eliminate child welfare agency resources or even the agencies themselves. Today, in the anticipated aftermath of the rash of scandals pockmarkin Continue Reading...
China's Taiwan Policy China -- the most populous country in the world -- has exhibited remarkably high levels of sustained economic growth in the two decades since it reformed its economy following the death of Mao Zedong in 1976. According to some Continue Reading...
Racist Beauty Ideals and Racial Self-Hatred This paper examines Toni Morrison's novel the Bluest Eye from the perspective of three different interest groups: Those who would interrogate the paper on the basis of issues related to gender, or of the Continue Reading...
Great Depression and the New Deal The Great Depression The Great Depression was caused by the stock market crash of 1929. The 1920s had been a roaring good time for Americans: credit was easy and investments were going up. In the 1920s, it was know Continue Reading...
Revolution of 1958 inevitable? Cuba. This island is known everywhere in the world. Everybody knows such names as Fidel Castro and Che Guevara. Also Cuba is associated with Caribbean crisis, which had frightened both the U.S.A. And USSR. That's all Continue Reading...
During the 1980s, to help spotlight international concern regarding the unprecedented nuclear arms race, India joined the Six-Nation Five-Continent joint. Amidst India's resolve to maintain its commitment to nuclear disarmament, it consistently op Continue Reading...
Europe faced after WWII and the fall of communism in 1991: How has Europe managed the transition away from communism? After World War II, Europe was devastated physically and economically from the conflict in a manner far different from the United Continue Reading...
Subtle Disapprobation of Labor Conditions The Harbinger's magazine article, "Female Workers of Lowell," which was initially published November 14, 1836 by an unidentified author, is one of the earliest surviving accounts of conditions of labor (not Continue Reading...
Kant was no exception to the paradigmatic priorities (i.e. objectivity as knowledge) of the era, and brief reference to the episteme is serves accuracy in discursive analysis of this heritage within American politics and policy thought. For instance Continue Reading...
Industrialization After the Civil War Introduce your paper with your previously crafted thesis statement. After the Civil War, the United States became a much-industrialized society. The country was characterized by several industrial developments. Continue Reading...
Civil War Between 1865 and 1920, industrialization had diverse effects on the life of Americans. While it improved the life of Americans, it also created problems for the society. Following the civil war, the amount of city jobs and factory jobs in Continue Reading...
Firms with what organisational patterns are more likely to acquire existing firms? In what stage of internationalisation is acquisition more likely? Such research should not assume that such decisions are always rational. It may be that irrational f Continue Reading...
Rampell, C.R. And Saltmarsh, M. (2009, September 2). A reluctance to retire means fewer openings. The New York Times. From the earliest years of the program, Social Security has been a three-legged stool steadied by a precarious balance of retireme Continue Reading...
He was the typical immigrant who sought to make his way in America but the harsh realities of American capitalist system left him battered and broken with a dead wife and child. After wandering through a life of crime and corruption, Jurgis is final Continue Reading...
The slaveholder was the "father" who needed to take care of his slaves spiritual and material needs, and to protect him or her. Early in the nineteenth century, slaveholders began to view their slaves as property that needed protecting. Conditions Continue Reading...
California's Electoral System of Today -- No return to the New York Tammany! It would be tempting to view the defeat of the Tammany Hall Political Machine by the opponents of political corruption as the clear triumph of good over evil. But the victo Continue Reading...
Industrial Revolution What Was Changed How it Changed the Economy Examples (one from 1900, one from Today) The main thing that changed was the United States shifted from an agrarian society to one that was industrial and manufacturing in nature Continue Reading...
Industrial Revolution of Trade Beyond Britain In a period around the 1500s-1600s, the Industrial Revolution was a confine of Britain mainly due to technological breakthroughs tailored to suit British conditions and not profitable elsewhere. However, Continue Reading...
Capitalism vs. Democracy Curing Neoliberalism with Democracy Pope Francis, never one to shy away from controversy, attacked contemporary forms of capitalism as not only exclusionary, but also deadly (Downie). To support his claim, Francis notes tha Continue Reading...
rise of business and the new age of industrial capitalism forced Americans to think about, criticize, and justify the new order -- especially the vast disparities of wealth and power it created. This assignment asks you to consider the nature and me Continue Reading...
Marx Historical Context Classical sociological and economic theories like those of Karl Marx emerged in Western Europe when it was experiencing the Enlightenment, the emergence of scientific method, a growing sense of individual autonomy over one's Continue Reading...
Mill and U.S. Constitution None of the issues being raised today by the Occupy Wall Street (OWS) movement are new, but rather they date back to the very beginning of the United States. At the time the Constitution was written in 1787, human rights a Continue Reading...
" Slavery actually began to lose favor in the United States as capitalism began to gain popularity. In the Northern part of the country capitalism was taking hold and thousands of workers found themselves employed for wages that would barely cover t Continue Reading...
Innovation Ethic In Chapter 4 of Perils of Prosperity, John Sarno argues that American industry does not really have an innovation ethic, and as a result it has been very badly damaged by the system of global capitalism and free trade that the U.S. Continue Reading...
Federalist Papers, the U.S. Constitution was ratified in the late 1780's by the original 13 states. But this new nation would experience a myriad of other changes by the turn of the century. With a new political system, westward expansionism and man Continue Reading...
LABOR UNIONS IN THE U.S.: Evaluation of Social Theory as Applied to the Concept of Organized Labor CHAPTER IN BRIEF INTRODUCTION history of labor unions, their composition and development in the U.S. over time, discussion of the "building blocks" of Continue Reading...
53). He points out that four countries (in 1917) -- England, France, Germany, and the United States -- own 80 per cent of the world's finance capital; thus, in his view, the whole rest of the world is subjugated, that is, indebted to and tributary t Continue Reading...
