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Externalities: Externalities are unintended side effects to an economic transaction. Externalities can be negative or positive. People are usually more concerned with negative externalities such as pollution and carbon emissions because of their social and environmental costs. However, positive externalit...
” The book goes on to image these might, could, and would be’s for each of the five children, through the decades. If this sounds sentimental, it’s far from it. Each of their stories through the decades includes moments of happiness and grief. The only one who seems like he ...
Also it's funny because the US could do a lot more things with socialist leanings and it would still be the capitalistic nightmare hellscape it is today as we backslide into feudalism. Another amusing point is a lot of nationalists that will worship the folks in the military...
A classic definition of social inequality comes from the sociologist Max Weber, who wrote that there are three fundamental types of inequality. The first is based in the marketplace and is “social class”. The second, and more important distinction, is
From crooked regulators to outright manipulation, from “failed” investigations to insider trading windfalls, the markets have been one big con job on the American public—and the people of the world—since their inception. In fact, there are many more examples of fraud, deception and manipulatio...
This is true in particular with respect to the consequences of privilege and subordination.Footnote 14 Positive and negative Stand-based privileges: domination and subordination The German word Stand includes assumptions of medieval feudalism, in which social rank is determined by birth, educational ...
After that comes the final death of the state and the reversion to feudalism. It is from a world ruled by warlords that Wells’ imagined “Air Dictatorship” will emerge. It is essentially the establishment of global rule by a scientific technocracy that begins with the imposition of a ...
Asia regularly revise their atti-tudes to Russian and Soviet imperial“colonialism”, creating various narrativesin the process,9the main tendency, albeit with occasional exceptions, is a lackof desire to continue the Soviet tradition of studying the activities of the Rus-sian imperial“enlightenment...
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