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    Capitalism Simulation

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    Test 2: Report on Capitalism Simulation Game On February 20th‚ 2014‚ in Values in the Workplace‚ we played a game simulating capitalism. The goal of the game was to get into teams; each team had a certain amount of the same resource. These resources could be traded and bought from one another‚ with a goal of creating “Widgets”. These widgets are then bought from the consumer. The team‚ who ends up with the most amount of money‚ wins the game. The strategies that arose during the simulation were

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    Financialised Capitalism

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    Financialised Capitalism To answer an exam question on this‚ look at it alongside the lecture about Fordism and look at the diagram. Need a basis of comparison if we are going to say if job quality has improved and control has changed – changing from what? There used to be claims that Fordism was being replaced by post-Fordism – a system of work and employment relations which was different and better in job quality than Fordism. Most people say that Fordism declined in 1970’s and by the mid-80’s

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    Monthly Review (October 2004) Capitalism and the Environment by Paul M. Sweezy [pic]It is obvious that humankind has arrived at a crucial turning point in its long history. Nuclear war could terminate the whole human enterprise. But even if this catastrophic ending can be avoided‚ it is by no means certain that the essential conditions for the survival and development of civilized society as we know it today will continue to exist. We live in and from a material environment consisting of land

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    Capitalism In Cuba

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    However‚ high profiteers find loopholes in the system and take advantage of it to gain economic capital exploiting peripheral countries and reducing their chances of economic prosperity. Wallerstein states ‚ “ Capitalism has been able to flourish precisely because the world economy has had within its bound not one but a multiplicity of political systems (Wallerstein‚ The Modern-World System‚ 230).” In our free market economy‚ there is the idea that represents

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    State Capitalism

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    State capitalism State capitalism in emerging markets is triumphing over liberal capitalism. State capitalism occurs when the government actively intervenes with firms and companies to boost economic growth. For example‚ the Chinese state accounts for 80% of the country’s companies. Hence‚ by controlling these multinational corporations (MNCs)‚ the China government shapes the overall market by managing its currency‚ directing funds to favored industries and working closely with Chinese companies

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    Focault on Capitalism

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    Akith Dissanayake‚ Sociology 334‚ 1 Foucault on Capitalism Sociology 334 Akith Dissanayake 1231501 Akith Dissanayake‚ Sociology 334‚ 2 Foucault’s conception of capitalism and its rationality are understood through the double character of freedom. Foucault’s analysis lies in his realization that capitalism manages individuals and populations through freedom and not through repression. Freedom is the condition that allows the correlation between what Foucault terms as the

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    Avatar & Capitalism

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    Avatar and Capitalism: The Conflict of ‘By Any Means Necessary’ Civilization was born from the human need to evolve from savages. Throughout history humans have deemed our great civilizations as what separated us from savages‚ but as Mark Twain’s once said‚ “The only very marked difference between the average civilized man‚ and the average savage is that one is gilded and the other is painted” (Vowell‚ 2005). A relation can be drawn between Twain’s remarks and Director James Cameron’s film Avatar

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    1. The two concepts of the key term in Bardes that I find most difficult to understand is aristocracy and capitalism. Aristocracy is a hereditary class ruled by a small number of individuals or a noble family. Capitalism is an economic system that produces and distributes privately or co-owned development from accumulating and reinvesting profits gained in free markets. Since I’m not into politics‚ these two key term makes it hard for me to distinguish upon trying to understand what types of different

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    Capitalism Bad

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    Capitalism is an economic and political system in which a country’s trade and industry are controlled by private owners for profit‚ rather than by the state. There are good things and bad things about Capitalism. Today‚ mostly everybody is Capitalism. The good things about Capitalism is that you can own property‚ freedom of speech and religion. The bad things are monopolies‚ it creates inequalities‚ and not everyone have healthcare. Capitalism has a lot to do with Adam Smith. Adam Smith was a Scottish

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    State Capitalism

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    about rise of state capitalism‚ its growth and actions of the government‚ the variations of state capitalism‚ benefits and flaws and its future. Rise of state capitalism In the recent years‚ following the biggest financial/economic crisis in 2007-2008 that destroyed Lehman Brothers‚ state capitalism grew to be more popular. State capitalism is basically profit making and seeking‚ with the government trying to match the powers of the state with the powers of capitalism. They use capitalist

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