Final IDs Part 2 Flashcards
Industrial Revolution
Urban cities and factories created capitalism, creation of a working class, slave trade from Napoleon generated lots of wealth
Adam Smith
Advocated for Laissez-Faire, market is an invisible hand that guides the economy, important bc his ideas of comparative advantage and division of labor made him the father of capitalism
Ricardo
British economist who believed in Iron Law of Wages = people have too many children which causes wages to drop meaning most people have to be poor. Important because his theory meant that poverty is inevitable and no means to try and escape it
Shelley
British romantic poet who believed industrialization is destroying nature. Important because she created a nostalgia for pre Industrial Revolutionary society, causing criticism in the IR.
Owen
Thought capitalists were not doing enough to help people. Significant because he tried to create a utopian society in Indiana with better wages and shorter working hours
Fourier
Fourier had the idea of Phalansteries = cooperative communities in France with no division of labor. Significant because he tried to make people work in what they are passionate in and he even attempted it in Massachusetts.
Saint-Simon
Created a Utopia with a planned economy. He was significant because he believed that society would be best run by the elites and scientific experts.
Liberalism
Individual is the most important, belief in progress (link to the Enlightenment)
British Utalitarianism
English liberals who liked their system of government, Constitutional Monarchy, but felt there needed to be reforms inside the government
French Constitutionalism
French liberals who saw the government system as broken and wanted to change the entire thing
Bentham
British Liberal thinker, who critiqued irrationality, and wanted to enhance pleasure and reduce pain. Important bc he was a utilitarianism. He also created the idea of the Bentham prison system, which made prisoners believe they are being watched at all times, even when they are not, so they behave better.
Constant
Liberal French leader who argued individual rights are the most important part of Liberty. Important because these liberal ideas of individualism were embraces of Democracy in Europe.
Tocqueville
Liberal French historian who moved to the U.S. Believed the old world was gone and France cannot restore to its glory. Freedom must have space for individuality which America does not allow, because you must be in majority to win
Nationalism
Everyone is in an imagined community, you are always connected with people you do not know. Very popular among conservatism
Conservatism
Embrace tradition, but it was a revise of Burke, embrace Catholicism and reject reformation and the enlightenment. Catholics are the main tradition in Europe