Protectionism

trait considered to be a predisposing factor of psychopathology" Multiple studies have found that there is ". . . a positive relationship between perfectionism and depression . . ." in addition other studies have found the same correlation between protectionism and anxiety (Zhou, Zhu, Zhang, & Cai, 2013). Zhou, Zhu, Zhang, and Cai's (2013) study was to find if there is a relationship ". . . between perfectionism and depression/anxiety . . ." based on the perceived social support, finding that…

Pre-Class Assignment #2 Approaches to Ethical Reasoning- Key Concepts and Variations 1) Lovin depicts a good life from two different points of view really. He uses Augustine’s example of a “humanity divided between two allegiances: worldly city and a heavenly one”.( Lovin,pg 13) There is no middle city that we belong to. So really the good life must first be looked at from both of those citizenships. Worldy citizenship says that the good life is get all you can get, acquire is the method of…

Imagine, if you can, the excitement when King Louis XIV appointed the great and genius financial mind of Jean Baptiste Colbert as his finance minister in 1665. Allow me to bring you back to how it all began. Born in the great city of Reims, France in 1619, Jean Baptiste Colbert began his life as a member of the bourgeoisie, or middle class. His family was considerably poor and as a result struggled to afford his education. In fact, his family was dependant on his potential success from the…

Globalisation Facilitating the Growth of Power for Transnational Corporations Globalisation has facilitated the growth of Transnational Corporations to develop a power greater than ever before. Allowing these corporations to expand all over the world. Completed through the international effort to develop and improve economies, technology, trade and communication ("What is globalization? definition and meaning", 2016). The advancements globalisation has provided have progressively allowed TNCs…

Thomas J. DiLorenzo is an economics professor at Loyola College in Maryland. DiLorenzo is the author of eleven books, and is regularly published in academic journals around the United States. In being so widely renowned as an accredited author, his specialties in economic history and political economy, make DiLorenzo more than qualified to be an expert on the everyday life and history of Abraham Lincoln. DiLorenzo book, The Real Lincoln, dares to probe deep into the life of one of America’s most…

Three Ideologies of Political Economy and beyond By Bernardo Creamer The ‘Prezi’ presentation “Copy of Three Ideologies of Political Economy”, used in class, is based on the ideas contained in the book by R Gilpin about political economics. Gilpin states that there are three ideologies that differ over a wide variation of questions such as: - What is the importance of the market for economic growth and distribution of wealth among groups and societies? - What should be the role of markets in…

Animal Rights: A Movement in the United States of America The main goal of this research paper is to describe the content and evaluate the impact of the United States of American Animal Rights movement. Although this social movement I will mostly call “animal rights,” it is well within the whole spectrum of the animal liberation movement, such as animal welfare etc. “Animal rights” has a very specific meaning, as one of the many possible approaches that signifies protection for animals. There…

The importance of global ethical business responsibilities has gained recognition for many reasons. Today, companies have set standards for which they must go through in order to conduct a global business. For many, the motivation to earn a profit and transfer the capital is not the primary driver in doing business; rather it is the primary enabler of sustained activity (Freeman et al. 39). One’s decisions can be affected by establishment of personal qualities, including things such as moral…

Countries around the world, especially developing ones, run into the crippling dilemma of poverty and how the issue of inequality should be handled. Some countries continue to exacerbate the issue through extractive and vicious processes, others acknowledge it and set out to solve it in different ways. Brazil, a victim of the debt crisis in the 1980s and a deficit economy that sets back its people, has experienced economic inequality from the very beginning of the state’s independence. The…

He says that Western companies think they can avoid political risk by spelling out every detail in a contract, but "in Asia, there is no shortcut for managing the relationship."88 In other words, the contract is in the relationship, not on the paper, and the way to ensure the reliability of the agreement is to nurture the relationship. Even a deal that has been implemented for some time may start to get watered down at a time when you cannot do anything about it. A Japanese-led consortium…