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Laborer Impacts of Changes to the Economy

and early 20th centuries that workers began believing that they, too, had rights. Throughout the prosperous 20s and into the Depre...

Morocco and National Security

and the domestic and external threats faced by The Kingdom of Morocco are often something that appears to belong in an earlier cen...

Benefits of Marijuana Legalization

that has always been associated with the civilization of a society. Yet, it appears that once a society is considered civilized it...

Sustaining Development and Buddhist Economics

existence (Schumacher, 1999). This is a good point. Work is produced by individuals but it often serves others outside of the comp...

Black Plague of the Fourteenth Century and Economics

or black spots on the skin gave the plague the name, Black Death. Because so many would die from this, it inevitably placed Europe...

Film Gung Ho

relied formerly on oil, for instance, Japan was able to diversify during the oil crises of the 1970s into the manufacture of elect...

Gross Domestic Product and Gross National Product

takes into account only the final product: for example, the revenue gained from selling raw materials to a manufacturer is not inc...

Laissez Faire and its Development

for the expansion; trade with the colonies, and those that undertook the trade wished to see the profit from their efforts, and re...

John McMurtry and Harold Innis on Trade Globalization

the society was able to strike a balance between the two types of communication: Innis also felt that social change tended to come...

Malthus, Ricardo, Smith and the 'Invisible Hand'

trade tariffs and taxes, but also measures such as minimum wages legislation as well as production limits. The policy that was fou...

Changing Thinking with Wealth of Nations by Adam Smith

the concept of free trade is one that separates economists into ideological camps even today. Smith further believed that the prac...

Democratization of Russia

addition, have proven to benefit from the mindset expansion that accompanied the political fall. "A new breed of Russian civil se...

Pirating Computer Software

result from governments failing to ensure that their own agencies use only legal software...Solving this problem would do more tha...

Development and Research

current products that is in constant need of research and development is in the video gaming industry. The research and developme...

Unemployment's Importance

is on the way down, and certainly other economic indicators suggest positive changes, there are still many people out of work. Eco...

Capital Costs and How to Calculate Them

calculations the best course of action may be projected by looking at the changes any change in the capital base will create it is...

Fast Food and the World Economy

Introduced by The Economist magazine during the late 1980s, the Big Mac index tries to examine if currencies are at the correct le...

Is Attaining 'the American Dream' Realistic?

in a double-wide trailer. Others see economic success as comfortably being able to pay the costs of living in a city, without eve...

Comparative Metropolitan Research of Vancouver, British Columbia and Seattle, Washington

fastest growing fields" (CANMET, 2003) there is good reason to believe Vancouver will continue to seek out viable options for its ...

Inflation and the Late Twentieth Century Economy of Israel

Triple-digit inflation and the fact that currency as a means of payment was stuffed in mattresses (instead of invested in financia...

Child Labor Practices in Asia

child population) as opposed to 80 million in Africa (40 percent of the total African child population) and 17.5 million in Latin ...

Spain and Global Business

bankruptcy. Steel mills (ENSIDESA and Altos Hornos), coal mines (HUNOSA), shipbuilders (AESA and Astano), and defense companies (B...

Management Practices and Factors That Affect Them

and concerns (Olsten Forum Reports, 2002). And, in terms of organizational culture, the Internet allows companies to have more int...

Global Trade Influences

aspects such as morals, ethics and the use of tools such as empowerment (Veiga, 1993). For example, in Muslim cultures there are g...

Business Cycles and Joseph Schumpeter

force of the economy, as one who would introduce new innovations, which would lead to profit, competition and ultimately recession...

The Effects of Fiscal and Monetary Policy on Business

achieve the desired results. The central bank has kept interest rates low, the federal government has instituted tax cuts and ana...

1990s' Globalization and Resulting Changes

the premise of cultural melding, but instead considers the connection between countries in a world that is being shaped by a break...

Post 1970 Oil Prices

not meet demand the prices will rise, and this will happen until the demand drops off due to the price increase and supply and dem...

The Independence of the Central Bank

way the internalisation of costs for riskily lending is forced onto the financial intermediaries. This creates greater efficiency ...

Faith Community Hospital Management

aware that Faith Community hospital deals in "product" much more valuable than anything that could be produced by a factory or dea...