The Wealth of Nations

Dream, Noam Chomsky describes the vicious cycle of how concentration of wealth supplies concentration of power, and the political power turns into legislation which concentrates more wealth, and so on, and so on. Chomsky talks about how people will never be able to reach the American Dream. People will never reach the American Dream because of what Chomsky stated in his documentary, which is because of the wealth of nations, the attack on solidarity, and marginalize the population. In the…

a colony of Spain. Spanish built extractive institutions in Chile and other regions of Americas to gain themselves wealth by exploited the indigenous people. Firstly, they captured the indigenous leader. Secondly, they made themselves higher state than the leaders and took control of the whole system. They created encomienda, mita, repartimiento, and trajin to extract as more wealth as possible and forced the indigenous people to live in the lowest standard. The indigenous people was forced to…

since the beginning of art. This article explains that almost every country when it would acquire new lands and conquer other countries would take over their art and make it their own. This way it would bring more wealth to the nation that is taking over. But not only it would bring wealth, it would expand their culture and bring in new values and ideas. In this article it gives examples how England would loot the treasures of China and India on their quest on expanding their colonies. How…

“There is hardly a nation or a person without a dream.”(Shestakov) Dreams are essential parts to the creative process of humans. It is through dreams that the impossible becomes possible and reality begins to take different shapes. The American Dream, just like any other dream, contemplates the possibility that through effort and dedication any person, no matter class or rank, can achieve success and wealth. Romantic and optimistic is the idea that the poor can achieve as high or a higher rank…

commercial ambition remade the nation. Between the Revolution and the Civil War, an old, stubborn world died and a new more-commercial nation was born. Americans combined the technologies of the Industrial Revolution into a new commercial economy. Steam power, the technology that moved steamboats and railroads, fueled the rise of American industry by powering mills and sparking new national transportation networks. A "market revolution" was busy rebuilding the nation. The revolution spread…

a system of government where power is given to the citizens of a nation who rule through freely elected representatives. Although not many people want to admit it, but here in the U.S., democracy is dying at an absurdly fast rate, and our governmental system is quickly turning into an oligarchy. An oligarchy is a small group of people that have control of the government, rather than it being controlled by the people of the nation. In the United States, the oligarchy that is forming is…

founding of the United States of America, the events that have transpired from the late 1500s within these lands have greatly impacted the lives lived today. From the invasion by the Europeans, decimation of Native American populations, creation of a new nation, the Revolutionary and Civil Wars, John Smith’s capitalism, the US Constitution, and other numerous events, every action upon this soil has in one form or another created the conditions for the chance at life, liberty, and pursuit of…

o Wisdom could have been useful to Solomon, but Solomon intended to use this wisdom so that he could make the nation stronger and better. - Apply: Serve your community o Don’t sit at your couch doing nothing!  Motivate yourself so that you want to help your community. • We should do things with all of our heart • Make sure you are doing these things because you…

Adam Smith’s pursuit of wealth and profits directs the economy to an efficient allocation of resources and to economic growth. The source of capital in a private property economy is savings by individuals. Smith believed, and I think that it is absolutely right, that labor could…

ignore; and it’s because of this negligence that the fun and free American way of life of the time met its terrible end. The numerous issues facing American agriculturists during this time, overproduction in manufacturing, unequal distribution of wealth, and poorly designed bank systems set the shoddy groundwork from which the American economy would go crashing down. The habits that America fell into during the Great War carried on into the 20’s and 30’s…