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A critical stage in his argument was his take-off stage coming commercialized, industrialization and technology gaining ground: strong neo-liberal argu

Strong institutions are the political foundations for equitable development because they ensure that public interests supersede private interests. Cent

West bengal: parliamentary communism and reform from above. Won the elections in 1977 and 1982 in the province of west bengal. It operates as a provinc

Their success would weaken particularistic elite sectors, strengthen poor categories who could provide countervailing power, and extend the state"s pen

Main argument: the british society has been characterized by the individual advancement through the acquisition of wealth (by the upper class). Inequal

Theories explain they explain as many things as possible while using as few ingredients as possible (as many = generality, few ingredients = parsimony)

But some are not benign more police, prisons, surveillance. A strong state is a prerequisite for democracy, and also a prerequisite for a functioning m

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Containing fear (lake and rothchild) reading notes. Main objective: understand ethnic conflict and collective (national) identities how. Lake and rothc

Spruit, hendrick institutional selection in international relations: state. Anarchy as order (reading notes: spruit is talking about historical changes

Europe contains more genuinely democratic states than any other continent on earth. Europe is not just a place, but an idea and an identity. Economics,

Integration: the case of europe reading notes. Puzzle: seeking to theorize and explain the european monetary integration using its international/system

A monopolist faces a negatively sloped demand curve. If the monopolist charges the same price for all units sold, its total revenue (tr) is: Average re

In the 19th century, economists emphasized the functional distribution of income. Focusing on the sources of income lost usefulness because of blurred

The national accounts divide actual gdp into its components: ca, ia, ga, nxa. Desired aggregate expenditure = total aggregate expenditure that an econo

Organization of firms : 6 basic types: single proprietorships, ordinary partnerships, limited partnerships: A firm that has one owner who is personally

Reading notes: acharya regional security arrangements in a multipolar world. In the contemporary international system, two types of actors are seeking

To measure total output in dollars, we add up the values of the many different goods produced: this gives nominal national income, with base-period pri

Partial-equilibrium analysis examines a single market in isolation and ignores feedback effects from other markets. In general, this is appropriate whe

The total amount of some product that consumers in the relevant market want to buy in a given time period is influenced by these important variables: H

The affect of a tax on the distribution of income can be summarized in terms of the progressivity of the tax. What fraction of the person"s income is p

The right of an individual to reject society"s infringement on his freedom to perform a personal obligation, illustrated by antigone"s refusal to dicta