The post-civil war period was one of great economic expansion for the United States. ... Although railroads were being built in the U.S. since the 1930's this industry bontributed greatly to economic development after the Civil War. ... This sparked economic growth in the post-cilil war era. ... Civil War. ...
This course is offered as part of the History Department program. It is structured to provide the student with a broad appreciation of the historical traditions and methodology of business administration of capitalist enterprise in the broader context of American economic development. This course ex...
United States plays a crucial role for war-devastated Korea in the 1950s. ... Authoritarian rule of General Part era might not be approved by most democratic nations at the time but for Korea, it seemed necessary. ... The Vietnam War provided economic opportunity at the right time. ... Another was the construction boom in the Middle East, which came just as the Vietnam War winding down (Eckert et al., 1990, p. 411). ...
Since most scholars would agree that East Asia was far more advanced than the West before the eighteenth century, it draws a peculiar attention that how the "West" was able to achieve the "World Power" after the eighteenth century. In The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers: Economic Change and Milita...
Pre-WWII World War I permitted Japan, which fought on the side of the victorious Allies, to expand its influence in Asia and its territorial holdings in the Pacific. ... The postwar era brought Japan unprecedented prosperity. ... Rising from the ashes of World War II, Japan achieved an economic growth "miracle" that made it the envy of many other countries. ... When Japan lost World War II, six million Japanese had to return home from the colonies Japan lost. ... Americans started to help Japan out by not making them pay reparations for war damages and opened Japanese trade to other countrie...
Some kind of 'cost benefit analysis' is not so easy when globalisation is perhaps the most over used and under specified concept in the international policy sciences since the passing of the 'Cold War'. ... In so doing, it will address three general charges often laid at economic globalisation's door: (i) That it is widening the income gap between rich and the poor and generating uneven development both within states and between states; (ii) that economic liberalisation has proceeded too rapidly and this has led market failures, especially in financial markets of the ...
For the purpose of plan fulfillment, Soviet-era statistics tended to exaggerate actual output. ... Foreign Debt Developments of the Post-Soviet Era The following table and chart demonstrate the amount of foreign aid in loans received by Russia since the collapse of the Soviet Union: 1992 1993 1994 1995 1996 1997 1998 1999 2000 Foreign Loans (in billions of dollars) 9.6 3.4 3.3 7.6 14.3 7.3 17.5 1.4 1 This makes a total of more than $65 billion, less than the Soviet debt that Russia took on, but a respectable sum nonetheless. ... Parliamentary elections, an unpopular war ...
Assignment Discuss the intellectual history of Anglo-American economic geography since the Second World War. ... In this essay the specific economic geography of Anglo-America will be explored following the Second World War. ... In the UK the years immediately following the Second World War were a time of rebuilding a crippled economy. ... Following a period of austerity the 1950s and 1960s saw a period often referred to as the 'golden era' of capitalism (Burke & Puty, 2004). ... The post-war economic boom ended in the early 1970s. ...
Phillips finds a Reagan-era report crediting six of the seven deadly sins for producing the modern economy--and that's not counting all the television and fast-food fortunes that have sloth to thank. ... Among other things, he cites ''financialization,'' a preoccupation with success in ''finance, technology and services'' and the neglect of ''basic manufacturing,'' speculation and the recurrence of bubbles and manias (from Dutch tulips to America's dot-coms), the export of capital and jobs, the reliance on foreigners to fill...
First, it had been argued that the period after the end of the Second World War witnessed a rapid growth of trade, which indicated a greater interconnectedness in the nature of the economy (O'Brien & Williams, 2010: 163). ... Thus, they conclude that the contemporary process of trade and investment is no more than a continuance of economic integration from the pre-1914 era (Hiest and Thompson, 1999: 28). ... While it is true that the economic fate of states is bound together in patterns of interdependence due to economic integrations, it is also important to note that states did not enjo...
In 1841, the government of Britain proclaimed itself as the global leader of the liberal world and declared war on the illegal movement and trade of narcotics. ... The duration of World War II was viewed as the era of incomplete globalization. ... The era of civil rights and cultural based explanations for local development resulted in the creation of cultural supremacists. ...
Removal of state subsidies and tariff barriers may have adversely affected the standard of living of workers and the growth prospects of certain industrial sectors in the periphery, but they were needed medicine in order to get the prices right Western development institutions, notably the IMF, the World Bank and their major members attributed poor records to the prevailing policies and strategies of development which had been pursued in the post-war era. ... As Adrian Leftwich notes, the aim of adjustment was to shutter the dominant post-war, state-led development paradigm and overcome the p...
During the industrialization era, many productive activities that took place within families, were moved to factories as society was industrialized (Aulette 139). ... When the men went off to war, women took over their roles as laborers in the workplace. ... The Great Depression ended with WWII, which stimulated the economy with new demands for war materials and ended unemployment with the draft. With the men gone to war, industries had no where lese to turn but to hire women, thus changing the family dramatically. ...
In the modern era, the globalization had an early bloom toward ends of the XIX century that embraced to the countries that nowadays are rich or developed, for many of which the trade currents and capitals in connection with the GDP ended up being similar or superiors to those that register at the present time. That acme of the globalization declined in the first half of the XX century, time that was characterized by the increase of the protectionism inside a mark of national wars and among the big powers, world wars, revolutions, peak of the ideologies authoritarian and vast economic uncertain...
Interestingly, during the Second World War, Brazil's Gross National Product was among the highest in the world – with a 7.4%. After the war was over, investments geared towards what seems to be one of the biggest problems the country faces today: infrastructure. ... " Players like Ronaldo, Adriano, Robinho, Alexandre Pato and Ronaldinho have been a part of this new soccer "era". i. ...
In this era crops were grown and sold in the marketplace as a means of income. ... This is the era in which the division of labor as we still know today was born. ... There was also a substantial rise in the women's labor force during World War II when the men went off to war and the women were needed in the factories. But when the men returned from war, there was a considerable decline in the women's labor force as the men reclaimed the jobs that were once theirs. ...
Today we live in America which is known as the land of opportunity. This is the reason why millions of people seek refuge here in the United States. Each person and each family, in this great nation, has the same opportunity to succeed. Material wealth seems to be the one driving force behind the...
Drucker (1999) and Florida (1995) recognised an epochal transformation from a mass production labour driven economy to an era of 'innovation-mediated production' where the principal component of economic growth would be knowledge. ... Increasing competitiveness by actively exploiting technological advancements is essential for leaders to be a formidable contender in the war for talent (Kane, 2012). ...
In 1981 the country entered "The Era of Reaganomics" and experienced the longest era of economic expansion in peace-time ever-for any country in the history of the world.2 This paper will show how the Reagan Administration's policies affected the economy of the 1980's. ... One problem was that the Reagan Administration was fighting the Cold War, trying to outspend the Soviets in the military, making ours far superior to theirs and giving them no hope for victory. ...
On 1st October 1949 after defeating the KMD in the Chinese Civil War, Mao announced at the gate of heavenly peace that he was now the leader of Peoples Republic of China. ... What was a agrarian undeveloped population evolved into one which developed the role and women and pushed China into a new era. ...
