The Spanish, Portuguese, French, British and Japanese utilized their military force and the created innovation to extend their domains and searching for more regions. ... From Cape Coast in modern Ghana to Luanda in Angola, founded in 1579 by the Portuguese, Atlantic port towns nominally under European control helped to foster a cosmopolitan society where European and African bloodlines and influences merged. ... Some of the major colonizers known to date are France, Denmark, Spain, Italy, and the United Kingdom (LCN). ... As the former improved the basis of help for specialized routines, th...

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They particularly point out the success stories of the cooperative culture in Spain and the social/solidarity economy movements in Quebec to highlight post-development theory in action. The success of the Mondragon cooperative in Spain has been based upon the ethical principles of open admission, democratic organization and inter-cooperation, to name a few. ... According to Gibson-Graham, through centuries of influence from development through, Spanish colonization, and, subsequently, American occupation, the Filipinos are much more reluctant to stray from the current structure of developmen...

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Liberals argue that trade benefits everyone because it helps people concentrate on what they are best at (the formal version of this argument is the theory of ˜comparative advantage'). ... Globalization has helped to reduce transport and transaction costs so the potential gains from specialization are increased. ... The internationalization of economic activity in Europe first took off in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with the development of new shipping technology that led to Spanish colonization of Latin America. ...

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