Abstract This paper addresses several aspects of European economichistory, focusing primarily on the medieval period. The paper includes a discussion of the role of the fairs of Champagne and the effect of the Black Death.
Abstract This paper examines the Public Choice Theory and deadweight loss as they apply to Indian economichistory.
From the Paper "India's economic history has been a case study for economists of the Public Choice Theory school. The maxim held by all free market economists is that people are motivated mainly be their self-interests. Although people often do act based on their concern for other people the basic motive behind a person's actions is typically a concern for their own self. Public Choice theorists take this self interest and ascribe it to the people in power. Public Choice economists believe that people acting in the political marketplace are ..."
Tags: India, economichistory, public choice theory, deadweight loss
Abstract Canadian economichistory since Confederation can be divided into three broad categories. The era of the National Policy, the era of the Keynesian welfare state and, in the last twenty years the socio-political environment has shift hard right with 'neo-liberalism.' This paper briefly summarizes, delineates and differentiates these three central periods of Canadian economichistory.
Abstract This paper recounts Hong Kong's economichistory from the time it became a British colony in the mid-19th century until the present. Hong Kong has prevailed as a remarkably prosperous territory since then, surviving various calamities, and has maintained its success even under the rule of the People's Republic of China. The paper concludes that Hong Kong's economichistory has produced a distinctive culture that seems permanent, different from what is found in newly industrialized and advancing areas of Mainland China.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The 19th Century
World War II and Beyond
The 1960s and 1970s
The End of British Hong Kong
Conclusion
From the Paper "In the 1930s, the Global Depression affected all Chinese ports including Hong Kong. Small scale manufacturing engaged many Chinese by this time whereas outsiders tend to think that most people were employed in the port of Hong Kong or its support trades and industries. The completion of the Canton-Kowloon railway was a boon because goods could be moved quickly from the Mainland, undercutting steamers and junks that once took goods to Hong Kong for onward shipping. (Chui, 1973, 55) Also, Chinese business experience allowed many to tough out years of lower demand finding new niche markets in simple goods required elsewhere in East and Southeast Asia. Clan and family networks allowed small profits from goods said to be needed in the Netherlands East Indies or Rangoon or Malaya, the general 'survivability' of the business community seen. In December of 1941, the invasion of the Imperial Japanese Army destroyed nearly built up in a hundred years of activity. No one knows how many local Chinese were murdered, foreigners interned, as Allied soldiers and local reservists tried to defend the colony, many of whom were killed or taken as prisoners of the Japanese. This time is remembered by Hong Kong people as an era of suffering and destruction. (See Banham, 2003)"
Tags: British colony, Britain, United Kingdom, industry trade bank commerce
Abstract This is a thematic paper looking at Hong Kong's entire economichistory, including various references, towards an explanation as to how Hong Kong's culture so differs from that of Mainland China, Taiwan, or other Chinese enclaves. The writer discusses the collaborative relationship with the British and foresight in post-War era. Further the writer looks at the creation of industrial/manufacturing base to allow independence, capitalizing on resource of acumen and steady labor supply.
From the Paper "Economic history is more than the study of productivity or statistics. It provides understanding of how distinctive cultures develop and change, and the economic history of Hong Kong seems bound to have created a new identity, and one that people belonging to Hong Kong will continue to value. Brown & Foot's study of Hong Kong reflects a manner of looking at Hong Kong's development in delineated phases or 'stages' after 1840. However, if one looks at economics in a society that is dynamic, contained, but also cosmopolitan, thematic approaches may be more helpful."
Abstract This paper looks at two very different articles that have to do with the 20th century economichistory of Hong Kong. Teh first article the paepr reviews is by David Clayton, in which he describes all that he was able to learn from records that he obtained in the 1990s from an ordinary Hong Kong knitting factory that had gone bankrupt in 1933 and how it was reconstructed. Catherine R. Schenk's "The Empire Strikes Back -Hong Kong and the Decline of Sterling in the 1960s" refers to a very different Hong Kong.
Abstract This paper talks about the significance that salt has had on the lifestyle of humans throughout history. The paper talks about salt's historical, economic, religious, financial, and cultural influence on human communities over time.
From the Paper "From time immemorial to the current age, the significance of salt to the human community and the animals has been vastly acknowledged. Ever since the time when salt made its entry, several millennia ago, it has vastly influenced the lifestyle of humans. This is not only with regard to the dieting pattern or the age-old food preserving industry. It also takes into account the human, financial, historical and religion adherent or orthodox planes. Finally, but in no way lesser in significance, salt has influenced the habit patterns and occult ways. Salt was significantly considered in exchange between the retailers, to the extent that it gave rise to "salt routes" via which merchants commenced the transportation and traded it to countries where there was no generation of salt. Salt is a priority in the chemical industry where it serves as a chief source for the vast array of chemical constituents."
This paper analyzes the book "Race, Gender and Work: A Multicultural EconomicHistory of Women in the United States" by Teresa Amott and Julie Matthaei.
Abstract The purpose of this paper is to introduce and analyze the book "Race, Gender and Work: A Multicultural EconomicHistory of Women in the United States" by Teresa Amott and Julie Matthaei. Specifically, it discusses why the analysis of women's work in terms of race, class, and history is essential to the study of contemporary work issues.
From the Paper "This liturgy is repeated throughout American history through Chicana women, Black women, European immigrant women, and Asian women. White men created the societal rules, and women had to conform to them. In the contemporary workplace, these male-dominated rules still largely govern hiring practices and jobs available to women. This actually began in the 19th century when it became more common for people to seek wage-work rather than providing for themselves on a farm or other family business. Many men began to work outside the home, leaving the tending of home, family, reproduction, and other responsibilities to the women at home, of course unpaid. Most of the companies hiring men (and some single women) were owned by white male capitalists, who hired a majority of men in their factories and offices. Women that could not afford servants took on more responsibilities, while the entire American culture began to revolve around home, hearth, and the women who maintained this domesticity."
Abstract The pre-1850 economichistory of the Atlantic Provinces of Canada is discussed with ample reference to Staple theory. It is argued that the early experience of Atlantic Canada contrasted markedly with more often analyzed realities in central and Western Canada. Regular mention is made of how the differing early development of the Atlantic Provinces can be seen as extending into patterns of the present.
Abstract This paper points out that economics and environmental factors have been inextricably intertwined since economics developed into a distinct area of specialization. In fact while many consider the field of economics to be uniquely confined to monetary systems, other experts and analysts alike have for the last 150 years recognized that economic forces are dependent upon environmental factors such as the development of natural resources.
Abstract This very comprehensive paper gives an account of the economichistory of Malaysia. It begins with the pre-independence era and then goes discusses all of the major political events and policies involved in bringing the country to its current position as the third largest economy in east Asia. Mentioned are the disputes between ethnic Malays and Chinese immigrants, the successful rural development programs, the 1997 Asian economic crisis and the communist movement. The paper includes a number of clear economic tables and is well researched.
From the paper:
?It is never possible entirely to distinguish a nation's economy from its political situation, however this may be especially true in the case of colonies and recently freed colonies because more than other governmental bodies colonial governments are founded to make the extraction of raw materials from the colony as economically efficient as possible.
This paper examines the economic development of the nation of Malaysia in the years after independence in 1957 until the present. This economichistory is bound up with the country's political development as a modern nation as well, and so to the extent that the two are integrated they will be both considered in this paper while the emphasis remains on the economic sector.?
Abstract For the purposes of this paper, a staple is a product with a large natural resource content. Some part of its fabrication must take place at the spot, even if only in the trivial sense of seizing it away from nature. This paper finds that the staple theory though not perfect is the most appropriate context in which to evaluate the process of Canadian economic development. As such, it makes an enormous contribution to the study of Canadian economichistory. This point will be developed by looking at the evolution of the staple theory,and by its application to the well-known historical facts of Canadian economic development.
An analysis of the impact that the fur trade had in defining the social, political and economic order of early Canada, with particular reference to the Native Canadians.
Abstract This paper explores the economichistory of the fur trade in early Canada with particular reference to the Native Canadian peoples of the time. It argues that this fur trade profoundly reshaped the social and economic order of Native Canadian societies to an even greater degree than it shaped the economic relations of European settlement in early Canada. It then shows how the trade defined the social, political and economic order of early Canada in a manner profoundly different from that of the early United States.
Table of Contents:
Introduction
The Fur Trade and Early European-Indian Contacts
The European and Native Canadian Struggle for Control
The Impact of the Fur Trade on Indian-European Attitudes
Points of Contact: The Fur Trade and Inter-Racial Marriage
Later Developments
Conclusion
From the Paper "In conclusion, it is clear that the fur trade played an enormous role in the early history of Canada. The economics of this trade not only provided the impetus for more enduring European contacts with Aboriginals, but also gave both sides good reason to maintain friendly relations for the sake of self-interest. It was the cycle of these trading relationships that led to Canadian traders to move further into the heart of the Continent in an effort to bypass their often sophisticated Indian trading partners. While such moves proved to be invariably in vain, they did support European settlement and expansion in comparatively peaceful interactions with the region's aboriginal populations. From this perspective, it may be said with little or no exaggeration that the economics of the fur trade defined the relations between Europeans and Canadian Indians and, in the long term, the fundamental characteristics of Canada today."
Abstract This paper deals with the political, economic, cultural, social and cultural changes in the United States between 1963-1992 and American foreign policy issues since 1960. In the first essay, the author examines the personal experiences of six Americans of different racial, religious, economic, and geographical backgrounds. In the second essay the author refutes charges that America is imperialist, and that American foreign policy is driven by capitalist greed.
Tags: AMERICAN STUDIES AND HISTORY, political economic cultural
Abstract The paper notes that there is some truth in the assertion that history tends to work in cycles. The paper looks at the history of the United States, and comments on peculiar parallels in economic and political spheres among particular decades, as well as wider parallels in the spheres of culture and international relations. The paper focuses on the similarities during four key periods in the history of the United States.
The paper confirms that history does, indeed, work in cycles.
From the Paper "He was also a conservative Republican. He supported anti-Communist movements around the world, and eventually put an end to the Cold War. His "hands off" approach to government allowed corporations unprecedented growth during his presidency. All of the presidents during each of the periods outlined above were extremely popular with the general public. Among the main political differences, Grover Cleveland was a Democrat, whereas all the other presidents in the periods under scrutiny were Republicans."
