Situating Global Capitalism Karen Ho

“Freakonomics: A Rouge Economist Explores the Hidden Side of Everything”, is a best-selling book by Steven D. Levitt and Stephen J. Dunbar. Levitt describes the book as a effort to “strip away a layer or two from the surface of modern life and see what is happening underneath.” He does this by taking two seemingly unrelated events and associates them. From comparing teachers and sumo wrestlers, to inquiring why crack dealers still live with their mothers Levitt and Dunbar manage to successfully put a spin on conventional wisdom by looking at it through very different perspectives. Unlike most books this book has no central idea, in fact in the opening chapter Levitt makes clear that this is by design. The key concern was to make people

Capitalism is more than an economic system-it is, in many ways, a philosophical view of life, a belief in how people should act and how the world should be. Capitalism even spills over into ethical decisions, based on a theory called Moral Egoism. Emmett Barcalow introduces the concept of Moral Egoism in chapter four of the third edition of his textbook, Moral Philosophy, on page 71. He describes Moral Egoism as the belief that one should make moral decisions based on one's own self-interest. Moral Egoism allows for behavior as genuinely helpful and benign as eating well and staying fit—since you would do this to boost your personal health, which is in your self-interest—and as sinister as lying, cheating, stealing, and even murdering—since

The works of Richard Robbins, Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism, and Allan Johnson, Privilege, Power, and Difference, address privilege, inequality, and capitalism through sociological and historical references. Through reading and analyzing these works along with our class lectures it has become apparent that there is a clear relationship between these systems. Capitalism causes and enforces systems of inequality and privilege. Capitalism is able to do this through the construct of social reality, the matrix of capitalist domination: segmentation of class, gender, and race, and through the manipulation of society by capitalistic culture.

In “Globalization of Eating Disorders“ Susan Bordo accurately uses the concept of globalization to explain the spread of eating disorders across the globe. In Friedman standards, globalization is a system responsible for connecting all types of people at unbelievable speeds. Bordo focuses more on the dominance of the United States. Bordo uses of globalization is very effective in this essay. The example of television in the Fiji island vividly express how influential america is to the world. WIthin 3 years span, cases of eating disorders increased dramatically solely from being exposed to America’s beauty standards through TV. When comparing Bordo’s essay with Friedman’s, the consisty is great. In general, Bordo uses the concept of the globalization

Richard Robbins explores and analyzes the creation and the upkeep of hunger in his book “Global Problems and the Culture of Capitalism. Each day, over a billion people in the world lack basic food needs. Common misunderstandings about world hunger are that it is the result of insufficient food production, famine is the common reason for hunger and that hunger is caused by overpopulation. Robbins argues against that theory and says that famines is not the leading cause of hunger and hunger is not due to overpopulation or insufficient food production. “Food production is not determined by the global need for food; it is determined on how many people have the means for it” (page 176). The documentary “The End of Poverty” reinforces Robbins belief that food is a commodity.

• Describe the concepts of capital and globalization presented in the introductory essay. Karl Marx is describing capital as a social order based on the class of people (Longhofer).

Persuasive Essay Audience: People age ranging from teenage to middle age. Purpose: To convince audience that media is one of the roots and causes of eating disorder.

One topic subject to never-ending debate that is reviewed, revised, then and disputed among scholars, is the market and the economy. In the book, "The Mind and The Market" by Jerry Muller (2002), he discusses the different viewpoints of scholars about capitalism in the market and the influence society holds on it. This writing is comprised of summaries of several reviews from a variety of authors, which will include their viewpoints, their criticism, and an overall review from Muller 's work. These authors include Brian Fox, Patrick Murray, Charles Tilly, and Fritz Ringer. Each author originates from respected and prestigious journals from different universities, programs, and other education systems. All intellectuals are experts in their field of study with a background in either philosophy, history, or economy, making their viewpoints meaningful, insightful, and relevant. Following the summary of each review will be a comparison and contrasting piece, continuing into an evaluation addressing if they captured the book in an appropriate way. Concluding the essay will have an input of my own personal review of the book. As shown, the reviews vary with their personal opinions regarding the positives and negatives of Muller 's work.

Money, the first word popping into some people’s minds when depicting Wall Street, is merely one aspect of “the Street”. As the beating heart of global capitalism, Wall Street has an enormous impact on college cultures. It is ubiquitous on campus, holding recruitment fairs and offering college students job opportunities. Flooded with emails, which inform college students of the upcoming career fairs and invite them to attend recruitment presentations, students are aspiring to work on Wall Streets. In “Biographies of Hegemony”, Karen Ho explores the close tie between some of America’s most powerful and prestigious universities and Wall Street firms. (Thesis)

America’s is a low context country that values personal space, and individual accomplishments. China is a collectivistic culture, where communication is internalized rather than being relatively blunt compared to American society. With such a large barricade between supreme states, how was the world supposed to achieve globalization? In fact, attempt to amend or change our individualistic culture has manifested a new movement known as anti globalization to challenge the issue.” Anti-globalization is a transnational protest movement that is global in character and has a decentralized network organization, that is worldwide and created to preserve identities.( )” This movement is self organize and created to combat rule authority over the behavior of humans. “In protest of anti-globalization movements, large summits and meetings of the worlds largest financial institutions are regularly targeted.” Currently it is writing widely believe those in power in a globalized world will consist of the World Trade Organization (WTO) International, Monetary Fund(IMF) and World Bank. Many opponents of globalization say it leads to exploitation of the world’s poor, workers, in that

It is often said that history is written by the victor. Growing up, we have been indoctrinated that the United States and capitalism are the moral choices in the perceptions of government. These views of our history are rooted in our countries past, and since we learn from our pasts, we carry forward a view of the United States moral dominance in world affairs. Yet during the cold war, the United States was not the only country portrayed as the moral center of the world. After the end of World War Two, the Soviet Union and the United States fought a war of words, the Cold War, for supremacy and world influence. The tones of these arguments were that both sides and their opposing forms of government were the pinnacle of moral standing. This war of words extended to the battlefield as third world nations, seeking freedom from their colonial oppressors who were torn apart by allegiance to either the Communist system of the Soviet Union or the Capitalist system of the United States. It was the Soviet Union and the United States that waged the war of idealism, chastising each other’s moral vacancy, while members of smaller countries, such as Vietnam, turned to both the powers as a means of improving their own lives while caring little for the verbiage of the battling superpowers.

Capitalism started up as a system of investing and sharing money in order to increase the value of resources in the future. Capitalism was just an economic system, but then soon turned into a complex system of ethical practices. Harari defines capitalism as, “a set of teachings about how people should behave, educate their children and even think” (Harari 314). This economic system evolved along with the people that were endorsing it. Capitalism enables the rich to get richer, while the poor continue to get poorer. There are many benefits to capitalism, but there are downfalls as well, and these downfalls tend to be masked because of the rapid speed capitalists grow at. Harari first presents a definition for capitalism, and soon goes into great detail on why capitalism, while fast paced and unforgiving, is able to stand unwavered while other productions fail.

Globalization is not a new concept – trade, migration, market integration and capital flows have been practiced in various forms dating back centuries. China is at the epicenter of our globalized world and their success is attributed to the tenets of Adam Smith’s Wealth of Nations. However, opponents of the globalization believe if Smith were alive today, he would be repulsed by our modern day international business strategies. The general consensus among dissenters of globalization is the misguided belief that capitalism at any level is missing the moral sentiment espoused by Smith’s philosophical viewpoints. Even though Adam Smith would acknowledge that some Chinese citizens are casualties of globalization, he would conclude the

Theoretically this thesis engages with capitalist and neoliberal literature followed by literature on everyday narratives to be able to contextualize consequences of historical and recent developments in the Kurdistan Region (KR), addressed in literature section, and the ways people have been affected by them are connected to the aforementioned topics.

Economic globalization has become the most important feature and a general trend of present world economic development. Globalization is a phenomenon and also a process of development of mankind and human society (Hamilton, 2008). It is the essential feature of the modern age. Globalization is the cross-border flows of capital and goods, including capital, labour, technology and natural resources (Bożyk, Misala & Puławski, 2002). Economic globalization is a historical process, and the germination of it could date back to the 16th century. After the industrial revolution, capitalist commodity economy, modern industry and transportation have been developing rapidly. The world market was fast expanded and the foreign trade was