English 2017 Lecture Notes - Consumerism

• School: Western University
• Department: English
• Course: English 2017
• Professor: Prof

Document Summary

Informed by other connections, information and communities: found and expressed within, slippery the term community/identity terms are or even other, we should be aware of how we are using each idea to talk about culture, assuming such a things as cultural imperialism or perception of it, at same time cannot ignore other processes that change culture, community, identity. Carmen and rein: thesis, if governments have a high ratio of public debt (90% of gdp or higher) then rate of growth slows by several % points, public debt: money owned by governments, sited and used by gov to impose strict austerity measures to reduce debt load and stimulate the economy, wanted gdp to grow, all in response to 2008 financial crisis, to reduce debts, cut funding to programs put that money towards debt, their were spending cuts to specific departments and also raised taxes.