Kevin Phillips also profiles wealthy Americans-from Astor to Carnegie and Rockefeller to contemporary wealth holders-he provides details about the peculiarly American ways of becoming and staying a multimillionaire. ... Among other things, he cites ''financialization,'' a preoccupation with success in ''finance, technology and services'' and the neglect of ''basic manufacturing,'' speculation and the recurrence of bubbles and manias (from Dutch tulips to America's dot-coms), the export of capital and jobs, the reliance on foreign...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate

In the immediate aftermath of World War II, ECLAC, then under the leadership of economist Raul Prebisch, published an analysis of the economic development of Latin America. ... One of the approaches against dependency theory focused on the links between Latin American culture and development with an emphasis on the region's history of Spanish conquest and colonization. ... Economic nationalism became prominent after the end of World War II and again in the late 1960s and 1980s. ... However, ECLAC formulated the key concepts applicable to Latin America. ... The U.S., furthermore, waned it...

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• Grade Level: Undergraduate