This night-watchman state was at the time clearly too weak to make the larger corporations act with economic rationality and fairness. ... These corporations can control the system to attain results which are incompatible with the free market, for example Microsoft and the Digital Millennium Copyright Act, which prevents its customers from switching easily from Windows to another operating system. ...
benefits and threats of globalisation Introduction There are processes in the international order--driven by revolutions in communication and information technology--that exhibit seemingly inexorable globalising tendencies while, at the same time, there are a range of actions, adopted by states and non state actors alike, that attempt to resist these often ill defined phenomena captured by the all embracing notion of 'globalisation'. For example, the long term tendency towards freer trade, electronic commerce and the seemingly uncontrollable power of deregulated capital markets do...
During the 1990s, literature on the international political economy was dominated by the idea of globalization. Dramatic decreases in transport costs and the rise of fast and cheap telecommunications technology have made geography less relevant and facilitated massive increases in global trade and n...
Despite the facts that some public schools served all students (not students let behind Act), Mexican American children during the first four decades of the twenty-century was limited to elementary grades. ... As part of its legal strategy in state courts, LULAC argued that because Mexican school children were legally recognized as white- they could not be constitutionally segregated. ...
Political support is gained by appealing to members of society with promises to act in their interests, more often directing this appeal to those individuals with wealth, social power and influence. ... A key equity issue of political debate is derived from the Government's strategy to implement the Goods and Services Tax on the two essential items of food and clothing. ...
