The mercantilist system rested on private property and the use of markets for the basic organization of economic activity. ... Parliament, under the control of merchants and capitalist classes, passed a series of laws that lands previously held by tenant farmers to enclose their land into large private farms worked by a much smaller labour force. ...
Ultimately, it is the nation-state that guarantees the ownership of private property and the means of production and provides support for disciplining the work force. ... While it had been normal in other forms of slavery for the slave to be legally defined as a thing, a piece of property, in America it also has become a form of capital. ... Besides being a piece of property, the American slave was transformed into part of the plantation machine, a part of the ever-growing investment in the master' mushrooming wealth. ... To counter this, a series of acts were passed which legally estab...
Control and income basically relate to property rights and property ownership while incentives are mechanisms used in a system to motivate the participants. ... Hierarchical organizations tend to be centralized where the decisions are made by the principal and passed on to the agents while in associations, the decision making process is decentralized. ...
The fear was because; in a communist system there is no private ownership of business or property. ... In response to this formation, a Crimes Act was passed in Parliament which stated that if any person supported the overthrow of an existing Australian Government by violence, they would be guilty of a crime punishable by imprisonment. ...
Thus, the almighty "Iron Curtain" was breached by allowing East Germans to pass into Austria through Hungary and then onto West Germany. ... Moreover, Marxist ideology faded in the wind as Gorbachev championed for private ownership of property by 1990. ...
Two of the key pieces of legislation passed during the 1920's will also be considered, the Universal Suffrage Bill and the Peace Preservation Law, both of 1925, as together they illustrate the cautious balance between progress and retreat that punctuated interwar Japanese politics. ... However, this piece of legislation was by no means unconditional – it was passed almost simultaneously alongside the infamous Peace Preservation Law, an unforgiving attack on dissenting activity that will be considered later on in this essay. ... Again, the constitutional makeup of the Japanese state me...
In 1917, the US government made a law which gave the Secretary of Labor the power to arrest or deport any alien advocating or teaching destruction of property or the overthrow of government by force. ... After all the unfair legislation passed by the government, everything was soon to become a disaster. ... In October 1918, Congress passed the Alien Act, which gave the Secretary of Labor the power to deport any alien who, at any time after entering the United States, is found to have been at the time of entry, or to have become thereafter a member of any anarchist organization. ...
In these learning environments as time passed the learning environment became a place to assimilate the native Indian, and keep the lower class of students into a certain knowledge base. ... In 1917, the US government made a law which gave the Secretary of Labor the power to arrest or deport any alien "advocating or teaching" destruction of property or the "overthrow of government by force." ... After all the unfair legislation passed by the government, the scene was set for a disaster. ...
Again, it was best said in the Communist Manifesto, while interchanging the word communist for environmentalist: "The communist revolution is the most radical rupture with traditional property relations; no wonder that its development involves the most radical rupture with traditional ideas."" In the particular case of environmentalism, the traditional idea of property ownership must be abandoned, for environmental problems are tans boundary, a single country's environmental disregard may affect all other nations, regardless of power, wealth, or any other traditional hierarchal standard....
Romania - a Special Case - Corruption, Deficiencies of the Party System, Authoritarianism - Not quite two years before local elections, one and a half years before parliamen-tary elections and two years before presidential elections, Romania seems to be standing at a crossroads. Thus, the ruling post-communists, the Romanian Social Democrats (PSD) of prime-minister and PSD party leader Adrian Nastase have to decide on how to continue the required political, social and economic transforma-tion process. Can they afford social unrest due to required reforms of the eco-nomic and social sys...
