Political economy

Understanding political economy is an important aspect to consider when looking analyze the connection between cities and government. Political economy is the use of the combination of political science, sociology, history and economic studies in order to understand how politics can control social and economic outcomes. Some of the classical sociologists that used this methodology to observe social change were the very controversial figure Karl Marx, Max Weber and Friedrich Engels. Although…

Fall 2016 IPED 202 Final Exam Questions Which of the three findings in the article do you find most troubling about our economy and society? Please list and explain each briefly. (20 points) Unemployment rate increased highly so that people had hard time to find jobs. In the article, the annual survey depicts, "Unemployment skyrocketed to 10 percent and the jobless rate is still a stubbornly high 9.6 percent." Therefore, people hard to earn money if people do not have jobs. As the unemployment…

Thomas Robert Malthus, Adam Smith and Karl Marx each address the influence of production and prices on the human population and well-being. Specifically, in relation to food, they had different expectations of the markets and growth in response to the industrial revolution. Malthus focuses on a big picture notion of food versus people, and how the human population will fight through scarcity. Smith concentrates on prosperity and its relation to the human population and productivity. Marx,…

have different countries go through issues when it comes to a countries economy or being in debt. In the Sub-Saharan region of Africa there was over millions of individuals that joined a Labor force for job opportunities. Sub-Saharan economies export raw materials such as oil, gas, minerals or agricultural commodities. First, many Sub-Saharan countries have improved in their government and democracy when it come to political views. The Sub-Saharan countries still dominate by a single party or…

behavior (Kirst-Ashman, 2014). This paper will utilize the political-economy theory to assess the substance abuse treatment provider that operates under the business name of The Women’s Treatment Center (TWTC). According to the political-economy theory two resources are needed. The organization must have “legitimacy, political power and economic resources (Kirst-Ashman, 2014, p. 173).” The origins of TWTC can be seen through the political-economy theory. HISTORY The Women’s Treatment Center…

neoliberalism. Its key principles including individual entrepreneurial freedoms and citizenship rights narrowly defined through consumerism. Essentially, by allowing more personal and economic freedoms the citizen would then contribute to the greater economy and society as a whole. The rise of neoliberal politics in the 1970s and 1980s was also closely tied to the Cold War where the competition between the Soviet Union and the United States was accompanied by securitization through economic…

guiding an effort of change. Limitations and obstacles for a solidarity economy are challenged by communities to ‘think and act with the historically subordinated and marginalized peoples; to unlearn their uni-national, colonial, and monocultural learning; and to relearn to learn so as to be able to complement each other, and co-exist and co-live ethically’ (Harcourt, 2014, p. 1324). By building a broad platform for living economies or alternatives from community needs, which are…

different cultures; however these two countries are compared throughout this research with their economic systems and demographics of their state including some interesting factual statements of both countries. Diving into the general statistics of both economies including primary sectors of their GDP gives an idea of what country has better economic stability now and in the future. Services and/or industries play into the economic behavior and are shown along with popular businesses and global…

When Karl Marx (2003) talks about labour in a political economy, he argues that the workers are “degraded to the most miserable sort of commodity” (p. 6)—in other words, the workers are being exploited by owners of private property. He introduces the concept of alienation, describing how workers become externalized not only from their labour and the product of their labour, but also from their species’ being and other workers. This, as a result reduces the workers’ capabilities of seeking their…

United Stated to get out of one of its economic crisis. Three contributing reasons identified by Amott in the article The Postwar Economy Slows Down, discusses why the country was able to prosper. Dominance of the United States abroad, a time of peace among laborers, and a stable demand of services and goods by the government assisted the U.S. in maintaining a prosperous economy (1993, p. 26). When there was a change among the domestic and global economics, the Unites States was affected. After…