Why did the colonies need England during the Seven Years' War? Why did Britain abolish the slave trade in 1807? Why was tobacco so important to the Jamestown colony? Why did capitalism emerge from the Industrial Revolution? Why was feudalism successful in the Middle Ages?
How did China and Japan develop modern economies? How did Emperor Meiji improve Japan? How did the daimyo influence Japan? What effect did industrialization have on Japan's government? How was the Meiji Restoration not capitalism-based? Why did the shoguns close off Japan to the wider world?
We suggest that, even if China compared well with the West in key economic features - commercialization and commodification of goods, land, labor - up to the 18th century, it did not traverse the path to Capitalism because of the "fact of empire". Lacking the scale o...
While some anarchists in the nineteenth century did argue that capitalism was marked by falling real wages, this was more a product of the time they were living through rather than an universal law. Most anarchists today argue that whether wages rise or fall depends on the social and economic ...
That’s the essence of competitive capitalism. SayCoca-Cola(KO) andPepsi(PEP) are both spending the same amount on AI models to predict demand and create new products. If Coca-Cola leverages the DeepSeek efficiency breakthrough to merely bring down costs and run the same AI models… while ...
information extraction and energy and information manipulation. Capitalism effectuates, as many such as Bellamy Foster have pointed out, a metabolic rift between man and the earth; this rift is marked by the dual thermoinformatic relation between energy and information extraction and manipulation. ...
As a rule of thumb, capitalism is risk-averse. It requires predictable forms of labour in order to ensure consistent, predictable profits – which is at odds with artists’ desires (and cultural expectation of them) to experiment and innovate constantly. With their oxymoronic name, ‘commercial...
As racial tensions escalate, campuses are seeing a surge in enrollment and a new brand of African-American activism.
It is believed thatgreed-geared capitalismhelped improve the social status of poor people who were able to work their way into better ways of living. Here are some reasons people are greedy. Lack People need money. They want to be able to meet their needs and take care of themselves and ...
To start, we did get the feeling that North Korea was changing a bit. We visited Tongil Market in Pyongyang where capitalism seemed to be on the move, and as mentioned perhaps more tellingly, were not allowed to take photos of it, lest it represent to the outside world that the free ...