Political economy Flashcards
(21 cards)
1
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What is an economy?
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- Institutionalized means of production, distribution, and consumption of goods and services
2
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What are the sectors of the economy?
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- Primary (raw materials)
- Secondary (processing raw materials into used goods)
- Tertiary/service (people who provide service)
3
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Nature of Socialism
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- Collective ownership
- Collective wellbeing
- Gov controls economy
4
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Nature of capitalism
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- Private ownership
- Personal profit
- Free market economy
5
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What is a welfare state
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- Mix of capitalism and socialism
- Canada
6
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What is Free enterprise
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- Adam Smith believes that free trade will lead to greater prosperity
7
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Protestant work ethic
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- Emphasized hard work, discipline and frugality
8
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Marx and Weber on the Emergence of Capitalism
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- A new capitalist class
- Miserable working conditions
9
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Marx further emphasizes capitalism
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- Surplus value of capitalism
- The production of commodities
- How synthesis will be the solution for the thesis (communal ownership) and the anti-thesis (private)
10
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Weber further emphasizes capitalism
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- Rise of rationality
- Dev of bureaucracy
- Influence of religion (the decrease)
11
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Capital, capitalism, capitalist?
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- Use money to make more money
- Eco system where means of production and good distribution are privately own
- Those who own capital
12
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Invisible hand
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- Self interest + Competition
- Unseen force controls the free market economy
13
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The competition…
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- regulate profits
- Keep wages fair
- regulate over-production
14
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Market value and surplus value
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- Market value: what good/service commands
- Surplus value: profit = $sale - $production
15
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Production/use value vs market value
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- Base on commodity
- Based on society
16
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Contradictions of capitalism
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- Self-defeating in the long run
- Held together by
+ State intervention
+ Imperialism and expansions
+ Ideology
17
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Marx’s predictions for capitalism
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- Crisis of overproduction
- repeating patterns of economic boom and slumps
- Polarization of the classes
18
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Marx failed to predictions
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- the revolution hasn’t occurred when and where he predicts
- The target of the revolution is not the capitalist
- Revolution is led by urban workers instead of farmers/rural workers
19
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Positive of the success of advanced capitalism
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- Improve the standard of living
- Trade union
- Welfare state
- Shareholder economy
- Advancing technology
- Resilient middle class
20
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The negative of the success of advanced capitalism
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- Exploitation of the global south (SA, AF, SEA,…)
- Constant military spending
- Unemployment (due to the slumps in the economy)
- Rise of multi-national enterprise (too much power in corpos)
21
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Consumerism affects
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- Negative environmental effects
- Planned obsolescence
- Non-material consumerism
