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    Jose Antonio Cova Principles of Economics (Macro) 2013 Professor Sealey September 27,2014 Keynes, one of the bastions of classical political economy of social democracy, was born in 1883 in Cambridge. After studying at Eton and graduating as an economist at Cambridge University, he went to work in the British India Office. Contact with the performance of the Indian economy was the basis of his first work, the money and finance in India, published in 1913 and well known then. During the course of World

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    Title (Australia) A Case Study Submitted to: Professor Mohtadi in partial fulfillment of the MBA course Global Political Economy Hult International Business School Submitted by: Jorge Carrasco Julia Berges
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    of “classical political economy”, Adam Smith (1723-1790) has challenged many previous political-economic assumptions, notably the Mercantilist points of view, to prosper and strengthen a state. In his most influential work Wealth of Nations (1779) and various other works of his, he has put forward his arguments, given a critique of their ideas, and formulated theories of how the market and trade should instead be. This essay will show in which ways Adam Smith, as a free economy capitalist, has

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    economist from Seoul, South Korea specializing in developmental economics. He attended the University of Cambridge in 1986 as a graduate student and earned his PhD for his thesis the political economy of industrial policy - reflections on the role of state intervention in 1992 and has taught as a professor of the Political Economy of Development at the University of Cambridge since 1990. He has served as a consultant to the World Bank, the Asian Development Bank, the European Investment Bank, as well as

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    Some historical and theoretical roots of the political economy of communication The political economy of communication (PEC) has its roots in moral and political philosophers that have established the foundations of political economy’s field, such as Adam Smith, Karl Marx, or J.S. Mill. Nevertheless, later interpreters have narrowed their works to their contributions to the field of economics, ignoring not only the political aspects of their inquiries, but also the moral foundations of their intellectual

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    Despite having more civil and political rights, including gaining the right to vote in many countries, access to higher education, and increasing paid economic opportunities, violence against women appears to be more common and egregious today than ever previously recorded (True 2012, 3). While increases in women's labor market participation has contributed more to global growth in the last two decades than growth in China, growth in India, and the rise of the Internet combined (True 2012, 31), the

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    contemporary Africa, an analysis based on a regional dimension is important. The multiplicity of strategies and methods of governance in a specific regional context can appear merging, mingling or even clashing, since regions can be understood as political and social projects, where different actors act in favour of the maintenance, protection or transformation of prevalent structures. In that way, according to Söderbaum, ''regions can be disrupted from within and from without by the same forces that

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    Author and Historian Eugene D. Genovese in his book, The Political Economy of Slavery, argues that slavery was "the foundation on which the south rose and grew." Contradicting this southern reliance on slavery was the underlying paradox that the prerequisites for this power wielded by slaveholders were breaking down, thus creating an environment where secession and the risk of war emerged as inevitable results. Placing the institution of slavery at the forefront of everyday life in the south, Genovese

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    worse case scenario would be to involve the military forces to threaten each other. The United Nation is the mediator amongst these countries to hopefully come into a state of resolution or compromise in order to reduce massive destructions. The economy and trade amongst nations often determine the power, status, and the relations amongst each country as to be either good or bad. Conflict of ideas consists of ethnic, religious, ideological, territorial, governmental, and economic. According to

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    Analyzing Political Corruption and its Effects on the Mexican Economy Gyadisha Sulvaran Palm Beach State College Macroeconomics Warren Smith 4th of April 2014   Abstract For macroeconomics, we were given an assignment to examine and analyze the causes of the business cycle in foreign economies. We were divided into groups of 6 and were given the instructions to randomly select a continent. Our continent was North America. We had to choose between Canada and Mexico. The reason why we decided to choose

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