http://whynationsfail.com/ Democracy, What Is It Good For? [pic]Daron Acemoglu and James Robinson In an earlier post, we reported on our research joint with Suresh Naidu and Pascual Restrepo, “Democracy, Redistribution and Inequality”, which showed very limited effects of democracy on inequality. So one would be excused for paraphrasing Edwin Starr’s famous song and Ian Morris’s forthcoming book, War! What Is It Good for?, and ask “democracy, what is it good for?” Certainly not economic growth, most would
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has been expanding its presence in international financial and commodities markets, and is one of a group of four emerging economies called the BRIC countries. Although struggling with social inequality and infrastructural deficits we think that Brazil is already a great world power. Also what attracted us to Brazil as a case study for this report is it’s exotic character. Not many people really know the extent of Brazil’s recent growth and improvements in social security and in overcoming poverty
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Over the past twenty five years, the UK has seen a wide number of policies be introduced into the education system that affects how it works. Whist some may say the policies have helped create equal opportunity, critics say an education market has been produced. Some claim that the main aim of these policies is to promote marketization; one example is the introduction of league tables and open enrolment. League tables aim to increase competition between schools thus increasing parental choice, it
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INTRODUCTION Development means making a better life of every man in this present context of an even world. A better life of most people is meeting their basic needs. It includes sufficient food to eat, affordable services available, quality health, and respect for each other. These things are basic human needs. Any other cause of Development is subject to materialistic or culture as a whole. The method and purpose of development are subject to popular democratic mechanism for decision making processes
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21, 2016 “Confronting Inequality” vs “The (Futile) Pursuit of the American Dream” “Confronting inequality” by Paul Krugman and “The (futile) pursuit of the American dream” by Barbara Ehrenreich are both mainly about how the middle-class is always having to sacrifice their free time from work in order to have some sort of strategic advantage against their competitors so that they can maintain their current career status and jobs. According to Ehrenreich and Krugman, inequality is a concern for all
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Social Inequality Unit 04 [pic] What are Marxist theories of inequality? Learning targets: • Marxism is concerned for the poor and powerless. • It claims that society is in conflict between the rich who control everything and the poor who must work for the rich and gain little in reward for their work. • The rich are able to maintain their position of power through control of the law, the police and other forms of authority. • The rich also control the manufacture
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for the Advancement of Colored People convention. Obama stood tall and confident delivering his speech which made it even more influential. In addition, former president Obama divided his speech into sections to support his argument on how to end inequality. The following sections that support the argument are how parents can help, growth in education, and how the government can pitch in to help the issue. Parents play an enormous portion of a child’s life. Obama agrees, and says, “To parents, we
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argument that advances in robotics and artificial intelligence would eventually take over a large percentage of the human workforce and in turn make us obsolete. In this wise and wide-ranging book, he surveys the impact robots and smart technology is having upon the economy, work, leisure, education, health care, and the acceleration of inequality and unemployment. Introduction: The central idea of this book by Martin Ford is that smart machines, robots and algorithms are increasingly going
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non-historical (the final state), as well as templates and unconventional principles. Thinker argues that Rawls's conception is a kind of unconventional and historical as utilitarianism, but with a different slant. According to Nozick, no one can take away from us and use our advantages, since it is people who are their legitimate holders (Nozick 1974, 193). Based on their criticism of the work of Rawls, Nozick creates its own concept of justice. Thinker comes from the theory of social contract and natural right
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life from these homicides, I also believe the high homicide rates in Chicago’s black neighborhoods are a symptom of the racial income inequality which still persists nationally to this day. According to a 2014 study by the Pew Research Center, the average white family has an annual household income of $71,300 while the average black family has an annual household income of only $43,300. According to the Bureau of Justice Statistics, there is generally a strong correlation between the number of people
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