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APUSH Terms Unit1 Flashcards 1 The idea of mercantilism was that the nation, not the individuals within it, was the principal actor in the economy. The goal of the economy, then, should be to increase the nation's wealth.  Merchants believed that the world's wealth was finite and that one nation could only grow rich at the expanse of another.
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APUSH Chapter 24 Believers in the idea, popular in the late nineteenth century, that people gained wealth by survival of the fittest.. Therefore, the wealthy had simply won a natural competition and owed nothing to the poor, and indeed service to the poor would interfere with this organic process.
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The Way Millionaires View Money Is Different From Everyone Else The wealthy think about money in non-linear terms. The masses trade time for money. This creates the belief that making money is a linear process directly connected to time. The average person believes the only way to earn more money — with the exception of raises and bonuses — is to work more hours.
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- The mythical land of Shangri-La is the novelist James Hilton's fictional account of the legendary Tibetan paradise Shambala. In Hilton's 1933 novel, Lost Horizon, he changes the name of the paradise to Shangri-La.This lost Tibetan paradise is a valley cut off from the world. The wisdom of the human race is being conserved there against the threat of imminent catastrophe.n Hilton's 1933 novel, Lost Horizon, he changes the name of the paradise to Shangri-La. This lost Tibetan paradise is a valley cut off from the world. The wisdom of the human race is being conserved there against the threat of imminent catastrophe.
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Unit 5 The believe govt should accept a high, but steady rate of inflation. monetary rule. monetarists belief that the Fed should allow the money supply to grow out a smooth, consistent rate per year and not us monetary policy to stimulate or slow the economy. Why do monetarists criticize fiscal policy. they believe that changes in the money supply determine the direction of a nations economy.
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John Maynard Keynes In the 1920s Keynes was a believer in the quantity theory of money (today called monetarism). His writings on the topic were essentially built on the principles he had learned from his mentors, Marshall and Pigou.
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- Through the inception of the Big Bang theory, however,no longer could the universe be considered infinite. The universe was forced to take on the properties of a finite phenomenon, possessing a history and a beginning.
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Pletal Call your doctor at once if you have any of these serious side effects: 1  severe headache; 2  bloody urine, painful urination; 3  fever, chills, body aches, flu symptoms; 4  chest pain; 5  feeling short of breath, even with mild exertion; or.  swelling of your ankles or feet.
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- Economist John Kenneth Galbraith (1979) claimed that the cultures of the Least Industrialized Nations hold them back. Building on the ideas of anthropologist Oscar Lewis, Galbraith argued that some nations are crippled by a culture of poverty, a way of life that perpetuates poverty from one generation to the next.Most of the world's poor people are farmers who live on little plots of land.They barely produce enough food to survive.uilding on the ideas of anthropologist Oscar Lewis, Galbraith argued that some nations are crippled by a culture of poverty, a way of life that perpetuates poverty from one generation to the next. Most of the world's poor people are farmers who live on little plots of land. They barely produce enough food to survive.
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- A graphical representation of wealth distribution developed by American economist Max Lorenz in 1905. On the graph, a straight diagonal line represents perfect equality of wealth distribution; the Lorenz curve lies beneath it, showing the reality of wealth distribution.
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Monetarism Monetarism is a school of thought in monetary economics that emphasizes the role of governments in controlling the amount of money in circulation. Monetarist theory asserts that variations in the money supply have major influences on national output in the short run and on price levels over longer periods.
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NATURE VS. NURTURE Tabula Rasa (Blank Slate) An English philosopher named John Locke postulated the tabula rasa (blank slate) theory, which states that people learn and acquire ideas from external forces, or the environment. Humans are born with an empty mind, having no knowledge whatsoever.
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The Invisible Man and the Invisible Hand: H.G. Wells's Critique of Capitalism In his Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith had argued that in an unfettered market economy, an invisible hand guides the self-seeking actions of individual entrepreneurs for the good of the community as a whole. In sharp contrast to Smith, Wells was a socialist.
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- Piketty shows that modern economic growth and the diffusion of knowledge have allowed us to avoid inequalities on the apocalyptic scale predicted by Karl Marx. But we have not modified the deep structures of capital and inequality as much as we thought in the optimistic decades following World War II.
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Adam Smith W ith The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith installed himself as the leading expositor of economic thought. Currents of Adam Smith run through the works published by David Ricardo and Karl Marx in the nineteenth century, and by John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman in the twentieth. Adam Smith was born in a small village in Kirkcaldy, Scotland, where his widowed mother raised him. At age fourteen, as was the usual practice, he entered the University of Glasgow on scholarship.
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economics. fundamental finance .com Although Adam Smith understood and explained absolute advantage, one big thing he missed in The Wealth of Nations was the theory of comparative advantage. Most of the credit for the theory is attributed to David Ricardo, although it had been mentioned a couple years earlier by Robert Torrens.
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Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel (1770â1831) Like Kant, Hegel believed that we do not perceive the world or anything in it directly and that all our minds have access to is ideas of the world—images, perceptions, concepts. For Kant and Hegel, the only reality we know is a virtual reality. Hegel’s idealism differs from Kant’s in two ways. First, Hegel believed that the ideas we have of the world are social, which is to say that the ideas that we possess individually are utterly shaped by the ideas that other people possess.
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- A. racism - the belief that some races are superior to others B. the Enlightenment- the belief that reason would solve mankind's problems C. capitalism- the belief that the market should determine who was rich and who was poor D. communism- the belief that history is the struggle between economic classes.
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Immanuel Wallerstein Overall, Wallerstein sees the development of the capitalist world economy as detrimental to a large proportion of the world's population. Similar to Marx, Wallerstein predicts that capitalism will be replaced by a socialist economy.or two decades Wallerstein served as an Africa scholar, publishing numerous books and articles, and in 1973, became president of the African Studies Association.
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The World Is Flat A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century The World Is Flat. A Brief History of the Twenty-First Century. by Thomas L. Friedman. Phase one lasted until 1800, when the world was run by states. Then, between 1800 and 2000, phase two saw the rise of multinational corporations.
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- W ith The Wealth of Nations Adam Smith installed himself as the leading expositor of economic thought. Currents of Adam Smith run through the works published by David Ricardo and Karl Marx in the nineteenth century, and by John Maynard Keynes and Milton Friedman in the twentieth.
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James 4: 13-17 Vs. 13-16: James is addressing people of wealth who were traders or who bought and traded land. Most were born in aristocracy or obtained wealth from dubious means. Their continual wealth was from renting and sharecropping land.These were the people who oppressed the poor.he picture presented here is that life on this earth is short and no one knows the future-especially that of his or her own. Yet, many Christians spin their wheels trying to guess the future, and even demanding their will and might in making their plans, hoping for the best.
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- M onetarism is a macroeconomic school of thought that emphasizes (1) long-run monetary neutrality, (2) short-run monetary nonneutrality, (3) the distinction between real and nominal interest rates, and (4) the role of monetary aggregates in policy analysis.
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Soâ¦ You Have to Visit Disney World at Christmas or New Yearâs Eve What time does the Magic kingdom in Walt Disney World open? It usually opens at 9 am. If you are staying on property, you have access to the park on selected days at 8 am.
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Infinity Thomas Aquinas, the Christian theologian and philosopher, used the fact that there was not a number to represent infinity as an argument against the existence of the actual infinite. In Summa theologia, written in the 13th Century, Thomas Aquinas wrote:-. The existence of an actual infinite multitude is impossible.
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Philosophy was a British empiricist and idealist who denied the existence of material substance and held that sensible objects exist only in the mind Anne Conway argued against parts of the philosophies of Descartes, Hobbes, and Spinoza. An essentialist who argued that everything other than God has both physical and mental essences - God is totally mental - she had a big influence on Leibniz's monadology.