Political economy

the United States 1790-1860, Douglass Cecil North examined the development of the nation’s economy. This book was meant to be a study in both economic growth and the economic history of the United States. North told his story of the United States shifting from a national economy centered around foreign trade to one centered around interregional flow of capital and goods bringing the United States’ economy into the larger context of an Atlantic one, North began his book by focusing on broad…

lifestyle for the last 300 years. However, since the rise of South West Africa People’s Organization (SWAPO) to power in the Namibian government, the Himba began facing social, cultural, and political change. SWAPO perceives the Himba to be “primitive” people that needs to adapt to the capitalist, globalize economy (Champion & Shields, 2002). The…

social media, and peer-to-peer software are enabling communication and organization in ways that are fueling the formation of a new collaborative economy. ‘Access over ownership’ is becoming the new consumption model and is changing the traditional economic system by expanding the volume of commerce and boosting purchasing power. The sharing economy can be defined as an economic model involving a peer-to-peer marketplace where goods and services are exchanged for a fee, barter or free. Within…

Gate; • development of domestic tourism; • high investment opportunities of the region. • preservation of raw materials orientation of the economy; • reluctance of the locals to invest their money in financial institutions; • financial illiteracy of the locals; • post- crisis situation of the economy of the Republic of Kazakhstan; • unstable world political…

These ideas recur throughout the contextual and cultural background provided by the interactive oral. The contextual information that represent the authority of a political and economic system, reflects off the cultural considerations during Durrenmatt’s time. During the Mid-1900’s, Post WWII Europe’s historical significance with the emergence of Capitalism is integrated in Durrenmatt’s diction. Similarly to The Visit…

of a role, the economy cannot grow. If women do not have the power to work, the market will lose potential workers, which will not allow the economy to…

exports and imports is a key factor on the sustainability plan that governments have created around the country’s well-being. Not only do countries exploit their natural resources in order to maintain the demand and power they acquire in the global economy, but some solely depend on these resources to provide the purchasing and spending power necessary to sustain them. It is not often that people think of the Middle East as a region with a positive connotation.…

become big players in the world’s economy in what seems to be overnight, due to such rapid growth. In The Elephant and the Dragon: The Rise of India and China and What It Means for All of US, Robyn Meredith lays out the history along with effects of this rise in India and China. One of the main questions is what should the United States do about this rise of what could be two new super powers in the world. China and India are transforming from poor and closed economies to developmental giants.…

growth could be applied universally. In his theory, Rostow generalizes the stage of economic growth by focusing more in investment and development of the leading sectors because these sectors play the major role in uphold the overall momentum of economy. In addition, his theory is also based on situation in certain countries especially in Western countries (Ohlin & Gustafsson 1961). These two conditions make this theory probably hard to be applied in every country in the world because it seems…

factors including the fact that Walmart, the leading retailer in the world, has opened its stores in the UK and the need to compete on a global scale by having a larger market share. Therefore, the company decided to venture in to Egypt, an emerging economy with a high growth rate percentage compared to many European countries at the time and one that less international competitors to compete with. This paper discusses whether Egypt was a good choice to invest in using various…