War of 1812, the nation settled into a sense of smugness that would be known as the Era of Good Feelings. The Era of Good Feelings was a term coined by a Boston-area newspaper in 1817, during newly elected President James Monroe's fifteen-state tour Continue Reading...
Growth Within a Country The issue of development and growth within a country or across countries is such that attracts that attention across board. There are screaming headlines of different economic measures taken by economists and financial analy Continue Reading...
Wealth of a Nation to Be: The American Colonies on the Eve of the Revolution" by Alice Hanson Jones. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1980.) xxxvi, 494 p.: ill.; 24 cm, (HC104.J67). This book is a more modern look than some of the other books Continue Reading...
SWOT Analysis of the U.S. Economy economy has historically been the strongest economy in the world. The economy boasts leadership in areas such as innovation, entrepreneurship, higher education, communications infrastructure, capital markets, and bus Continue Reading...
railroad industrialized America, a Track That Unified a Nation How the railroad industrialized America In the nineteenth century, the railroad system of the United States of America came to life. The systems' sole purpose was to transport people a Continue Reading...
Chain migration refers to the migration of a population, whereas hierarchical migration refers to the migration of a certain segment of a population. As can be gathered by these factors that influence population growth, community interactions plays Continue Reading...
Growth Rate Slow model (1992) is an economic tool used to analyze a country economic growth. The principal conclusion of Slow model is that the accumulation of capital could not only account for the growth rate per person. To address the central que Continue Reading...
S. effort must follow certain guidelines in any such efforts, like for example, it must perforce be for the innate purpose of changing, or propping up the regime. It must also deploy large numbers of U.S. ground troops, and it must also involve these Continue Reading...
Tariffs Describe a specific tariff, an ad valorem tariff, and a compound tariff. What are the advantages and disadvantages of each? A specific tariff is a fixed amount of taxation, placed by a government, per physical unit of an imported product. ( Continue Reading...
8%) and all were s-commerce users. 58.2% were Korean natives, 14.6% were Chinese and 10.8% were American. 9.7% were European and 6.7% were Japanese. The majority used s-commerce to purchase tickets for entertainment (44.5%) and 67% had been using s-c Continue Reading...
Economic Globalization a positive trend? In order to fully understand the complexities of economic globalization, one must first sufficiently define the term in regards to how it is viewed in today's world. Thomas L. Friedman defines globalization Continue Reading...
Nations and Nationalism Exist: Comparison of the Work of Laitin, Geertz, Hobsbawn, and Anderson The objective of this study is to compare the work of Laitin, Geertz, Hobsbawn, and Anderson and to answer as to which argument is the most persuasive f Continue Reading...
Policy Advisement on Efficacy of Nation Building in Iraq Dear Mr. President and Mr. Secretary of State, After a decade to examine the consequences of America's decision to invade Iraq -- and engage in a massive nation building effort after successf Continue Reading...
So the economy is stuck in an equilibrium well below its production and employment potential, even as gross domestic product resumes modest growth" (p. 3). As a public sector employee for the State of New Jersey Division of Criminal Justice, this m Continue Reading...
Smart GrowthChinitz (1990) examines the fallacy of composition in the context of land policy and growth management. The basic idea of the fallacy is that what is good for the individual is not necessarily good for society as a wholewith the normal ap Continue Reading...
GDP GNI GDP and GNI Discussion: China and Canada The country selected for our analysis is China, a nation that has experienced an apparent increase in the rate of its growth in concurrence with the shifts in the global economy. As free trade has op Continue Reading...
Economics of New Ideas and Innovations This research paper discusses the economics of a new idea. Without new ideas and inventions, the economy might very well become stagnant or decline, as predicted by many early economists, who did not understand Continue Reading...
Antecedents and Outcome of Russia's Currency Crisis Although the former Soviet Union has collapsed, losing much of its territorial possessions, Russia is still the largest country in the world and what happens to the Russian economy can have a profo Continue Reading...
Executive SummaryThis paper provides an analysis of Herb Kellehers leadership of during his tenure as CEO of Southwest Airlines from 1971 to 2001. Under the charismatic Kellehers servant-leadership approach which placed a high priority on employee em Continue Reading...
Unemployment, CPI, Taxes, and GDPIntroductionAssessing the health and well-being of an economy involves examining various indicators and factors that influence overall economic performance and the standard of living. This paper will examine the reaso Continue Reading...
Growth of Tourism Capitalism, as an economic system, is doing much of what democracy, as a political system could not. China has long been known as a communist country, but this truly applies to both political and economic policy, although the Marxi Continue Reading...
Governments will not provide public goods to those they mistrust, as they will not expect to be able to collect taxes at a later date. In Africa, this again can be related to ethnic tensions -- governments and regions from different ethnic groups ma Continue Reading...
In the mass national media our contemporary gossip culture creates a sense of intimacy and knowledge about the rich and famous through television, if not personal interaction. New York thus had a paradoxical culture of mass communication and segmen Continue Reading...
Family businesses and small artisan shops provided the main means of employment before the Industrial Revolution, after which urban-area factories became a dominant economic and social force. Because factories attracted large numbers of domestic and Continue Reading...
Israel has a long standing history of conflicts of a religious nature with the Palestinians, but also with Lebanon and other Middle Eastern states; despite the numerous attempts at peace, armed conflicts still occur; this brings instability and fear Continue Reading...
The country has traditionally relied on growing its workforce as a means of increasing its economic capabilities. While Hong Kong has done the same in the past, its policy has diverged at this point. Faced with an influx of labour from the PRC, Hong Continue Reading...
As the wealthy people no longer had to live in the center of the city, the central business district was characterized by retail shops, office buildings and light manufacturing. In America, the industrial revolution started just before the beginnin Continue Reading...
"Forecasts by Moody's Economy.com now use a 20 percent drop in median existing-home prices from their 2005 peak as a baseline, with prices weakening through at least mid-2009" (Shinkle, 2008, p. 44). Moody's director of housing economics Celia Chen Continue Reading...
Opportunity Costs How a college education increases one's human capital It is a universal belief that a more educated workforce leads to an incredible human capital. Therefore, the thought of retaining higher educated graduates is important towards Continue Reading...
Political Realignment Curse a) Are we in the midst of a political realignment in America? Political realignment is an aspect, which is in evitable in America. It is evident that the political scenes in America today are changing from one state to Continue Reading...
Concurrently, while the agrarian sector and movements suffered from the effects of urbanization and the nation's laissez faire form of government, cities flourished as more and more economic progress happened in the area of industrialization. New t Continue Reading...
FDI Ireland experienced a brief economic boom in the mid-1990s, which was a time of relative boom across the Western world. A number of factors contributed to this boom, including a low corporate tax environment, and Ireland positioning itself as a Continue Reading...
sustainable development and economic growth? Within a global economy, it is very important that as people that we start to rethink the basis of economics for the reason that with the economic system we are gifted with today, sustainable development Continue Reading...
International expansion is one of the growth strategies that are embraced by companies in order to improve their bottom-line/profitability. In this paper, we present an elaborate international marketing strategy for Red Bull energy drink. The marketi Continue Reading...
