Geography 2410A/B Lecture Notes - Lecture 2: Economic System, Social Reproduction, Class Conflict
5 Apr 2016
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Lecture 2 class & inequality in canada: capitalism: explained, pros, cons, canada"s economic class structure, class myths, class as personal atributes, class as geographical. The emphaic civilizaion jeremy rikin: humans have a very emphaic, and altruisic side to them as well. Asks us to defend inequality or unequal, unfair treatment: inequiies. If we cannot jusify inequaliies diferences or inequiies unfair treatment then we are morally obliged to recify the situaion. Capitalism explained: economic system, means of producion all/mostly privately owned and operated for proit (land, labour, capital/materials, private investment and private proits, supply and demand of free market, determine: Producion, distribuion, and prices of goods, services, and or labour. Mixed economy (canada: a capitalist economy in which government acively engages in managing, invesing, proiing and restricing the market place. Poliical let vs. poliical right: a quesion of the role of government in the economy, ndp.
