Political Flashcards
What did Nixon mean by ‘The Vietnam Syndrome?’
The distortion of American foreign policy as to the handling of the Vietnam conflict by ‘reluctance to use power to secure national interests.’ Making America ashamed of being strong.
What is social contract theory?
Social contract theory, nearly as old as philosophy itself, is the view that persons’ moral and/or political obligations are dependent upon a contract or agreement among them to form the society in which they live. S
What is a sign of Protofacism emerges into true fascism which series of evince?
The public political body being dominated by corporate interests, big banks and big business. Scapegoat the most vulnerable social group. Militarized orientation of the Repressive State Apparatus.
What is meant by ‘neo-fascism?’
American fascism. From Carter-Obama we’ve lived in neoliberalism.
When was the English Revolution and what did it do?
It established parliamentarianism in 1688
Relative poverty
Relative poverty refers to a standard which is defined in terms of the society in which an individual lives and which therefore differs between countries and over time. An income-related example would be living on less than X% of average UK income
Why does Mit Romney only pay 15% tax?
Because he is primarily paid from capital gains
What leads to a high turnover?
Intense competition in congress. Jefferson and federalist papers 5 writes about the consequences when you have so called factions. Which lead to the downfall of early roman and Greek republics.
Which anthropologist put forth the pre-Patriarchal matriarchal egalitarian society before Judaism?
Marija Gimbutas
The New Deal
The New Deal was a group of U.S. government programs of the 1930s. President Franklin D. Roosevelt started the programs to help the country recover from the economic problems of the Great Depressio
Why does Science work so well as a hegemony? use Karl Poppers concept of falsifiability.
The unusual trustworthiness of science, despite the fact that scientists are humans and humans are not generally trustworthy, exists when (a) hypothe- ses are falsifiable, and (b) the professional institutions within which scientists operate promote, broadcast, and reward any falsification. We can trust a con- sensus of scientists on a problem for which (a) and (b) are true, because we are basing our trust on the fact that, if the hypothesis is false, a large number of very smart people has tried and failed to discover its error. This is not, of course, impossible. But it is at least unlikely.
So we have two definitions, and our $64,000 question: is Science science? That is: is the official truth of AGW, which claims the high credibility produced by Popperian falsifiability in a functioning system of critical feedback, in fact justified in claiming this credibility?
The answer is easy: no.
To understand the impact of increased CO2, we need to know the climate sensitivity. Q: How can scientists, at least Popperian scientists, evaluate the climate sensitivity? A: They can’t. There is no falsifiable procedure which can estimate climate sensitivity.
To estimate climate sensitivity, all you need is an accurate model of Earth’s atmosphere. Likewise, to get to Alpha Centauri, all you have to do is jump very high. The difference between the computing power we have, and the comput- ing power we would need in order to accurately model Earth’s atmosphere, is comparable to the difference between my vertical leap and the distance to Al- pha Centauri. For all practical purposes, climate modeling is the equivalent of earthquake prediction: an unsolvable problem.
Keysian inflation vs Fischer Inflation
Keynesians think governments should inflate the money supply through deficit spending—the “stimulus” we have grown to love so dearly. Fisherites think the best way to inflate the money supply is by fix- ing interest rates, a policy sometimes known as “easy” or “cheap” money.
David Humes Angel Gabriel
David Hume, in order to demonstrate the inflationary and non-productive effect of paper money, in effect postulated what Rothbard called the “Angel Gabriel” model, in which the Angel, after hearing pleas for more money, magically doubled each person’s stock of money overnight. (In this case, the Angel Gabriel would be the “counterfeiter,” albeit for benevolent motives.) While everyone would be happy from their seeming doubling of monetary wealth, society would in no way be better off: there would be no increase in capital or productivity or supply of goods. As people rushed out and spent the new money, the only impact would be an approximate doubling of all prices, and the purchasing power of the money would be cut in half, with no social benefit being conferred. An increase of money can only dilute the effectiveness of each unit of money.
What does „pro rata“ mean?
n economics, “pro rata” means “proportionally.” It is used to describe a situation where something is distributed or allocated in proportion to something else. For example, if a company pays dividends to its shareholders on a pro rata basis, it means that each shareholder receives a dividend that is proportional to the number of shares they own.
Business cycle
is an extremely misleading phrase. A better phrase would be banking cycle. It refers to booms and busts.
