SOSC 1140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Economic History

• School: York University
• Department: Social Science
• Course: SOSC 1140
• Professor: John Simoulidis

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Ideology opposition to free trade in canada is really today part of a very small part of the political spectrum, a very small and extreme part . Can anyone guess who said this? (cid:0) stephen harper. Lecture outline: heilbroner chapter 1: the room of economics" (cid:0) the economic problem: tradition; command; the market (cid:0) film: the! Capitalism is the name of the economic system that dominates the world today. The market says that the only way to allocate materials is to price them) (cid:0) according to heilbroner, economics is the study of a process of providing for the material well being of society. You are going to ask how do we get the things that we need? and what is our material well being? . Involves mobilizing and marshaling their work forces [and] of distributing their product (p. 9: tradition, command and the market.