Mini Unit: Intro To Exonomics Flashcards
Industrialization meaning
An organized effort usually using machinery to produce more valuable / useful from available natural resources and primary products
Industrial Revolution : why there?
Eco
Free Enterprise. People were allowed to think ,create, and sell
Industrial Revolution : why there?
Soc
Stable population . Not at war
Industrial Revolution : why there?
Pol
The king allowed the people to think . Opposite of France
Industrial Revolution : why there?
Env
Coal and water
Industrial Revolution: Lasting Impactful Outcomes
Eco
-International trade( began in the middle ages) also known as globalization
- jobs shifted from farms to factories
- the world is classified by economics
Industrial Revolution: Lasting Impactful Outcomes
Soc
- population exploded
- less farmers, but more food ( technical advances)
- rise in life expectancy- rise in medication
- changed cultural landscape
- rural to urban
Industrial Revolution: Lasting Impactful Outcomes
Pol
Colonized because the needed more/ new resources
Industrial Revolution: Lasting Impactful Outcomes
Env
Population increased
Natural resources decreased
What is the Brandit line ?
This line was created in 1980 and dives the rich north and poor south
Core - MDCs ( make developed countries )
- these were the headquarters of the most largest multinational companies
- high skill,capital intensive products
- dominates periphery and semi periphery economically and politically
- benefits greatly from internal trade
RLE: USA, UK, Japan, Australia , Germany
Semi- Periphery NICs ( newy industrialized colonies )
- provides the core with manufactured goods and services that the core once provided for itself,but no longer does
RLEs: India, Mexico , South Africa , Brazil, and China
Periphery - LDCs( less developed countries )
- provides the core and semi- Periphery with inexpensive raw materials,labor and agricultural production
- weak laws protecting workers and environment
RLEs: Afghanistan, Zimbabwe , Peru, Kenya
How many sectors are in the economy ?
5
Which sector extracts or harvest products from the earth such as raw materials and basic foods ?
RLE: farmers, mines, fishermen,ranchers ,logging
Primary sector