GMS 723 Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: John Stuart Mill, Totalitarianism, Collectivism
16 Feb 2016
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Cultural practices can vary dramatically from country to country, as can the education and skill level of the population. Countries are at different stages of economic development. Collectively we refer to the these systems as constituting the political economy of a country. We use the term political economy to stress that the political, economic, and legal systems of a country are not independent of each other. They interact and influence each other, and in doing so, they affect the level of economic well-being in a country. Collectivism: political system that stresses the primacy of collective goals over individual goals. Plato: individual rights should be sacrificed over the good of society o. Social democrats socialism by democratic means o. Individualism: political system that focuses on the interests of the individual over the interests of the states o. Aristotle: private property is more highly productive than communal property and will thus stimulate progress. Individual freedom and self-expression john stuart mill.
