The Cold War engulfed the entire world for nearly half a century. ... A country's policies and behavior must appeal to the international community, and war discourages this community from writing useful investment checks. Potential wartime governments have two options from which they can decide: either fight wars and risk losing international support, or make peace with adversaries and keep cash flow infiltrating steadily. ... When people begin to demand information and analyze trades, a separation between companies is created, forcing the good upwards and the bad downwards. ...

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Several dimensions of economic globalization embrace the aspects of multinational companies investing in their long-term policies in the world market. ... In 1841, the government of Britain proclaimed itself as the global leader of the liberal world and declared war on the illegal movement and trade of narcotics. ... The duration of World War II was viewed as the era of incomplete globalization. ... The privatization of state-owned companies and enterprises started to compensate for the deficit made by the losses incurred by the firms in the developing countries (Parks 22). ...

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Assignment Discuss the intellectual history of Anglo-American economic geography since the Second World War. ... In this essay the specific economic geography of Anglo-America will be explored following the Second World War. ... In the UK the years immediately following the Second World War were a time of rebuilding a crippled economy. ... For example large industrial firms, such as Imperial Chemical Industries (ICI), Rover Company and the British Motor Corporation, became the focus of economic geographers' attention. ... The post-war economic boom ended in the early 1970s. ...

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War is what we use to justify protecting our countries' ways of life. ... War also a phenomenal source of profit, and in today's capitalist society, everybody wants a "share" of that. ... Like Yossarian, Milo is able to partially see through the political charades of the war. ... Milo's pathological avarice leads him to make a series of bargains with both sides of the war to satisfy his drive for profit, rather than abandoning the war and refusing to partake in the taking of innocent lives. ... He has his squadron's planes' "laudable ideals as Courage, M...

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Advertising methods that had been developed to build support for World War I were used to persuade people to buy such relatively new products as automobiles and such completely new ones as radios and household appliances. ... The prices of stocks were rising far beyond the worth of the shares of the companies they represented. ... The Great Depression came to an end with the starting of World War II. ...

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When a company offers a product that is exceptionally better than its competitors, these competitors can hinder the sale of this incomparable product and thus prevent the product prevailing. ... Where by in a corporatist arena laws and provisions get passed by a corporation to intimidate or oppress other companies thus making profit. ...

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For example, take into account the Cold War; the United Sates claimed that it wanted to help develop other countries, but in reality it's obvious that its only intentions were to create allies against the Soviet Union. ...

• Word Count: 2010
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Globalisation The word globalisation has become a buzzword since its inception at the beginning of the 1990s. A cottage industry on globalisation has emerged from which academics and intellectuals make a living by writing articles and travelling the world debating with others. The financial and business sections of broadsheet newspapers are continuously littered with issues concerning globalisation and meetings are frequently held by the superpowers to discuss the state of the global economy, such as the meetings in Doha in Qatar, Cancun in Mexico and the IMF summit in Dubai. As a result of...

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Smith died with these last words to his companions, "I love your company gentlemen, but I believe I must leave you to go to another world" (Jones 25). ... Thirdly, commerce and manufactures gradually introduced order and good government, and with them, the liberty and security of individuals, among the inhabitants of the country, who had died before lived almost in a continual state of war with their neighbors, and of servile dependency upon their superiors" (Smith, 245). ...

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Americans held a wide variety of opinions about the capitalist system because each American had a different role in society and the system affected them in different ways. The people of society were classified in different ways and the differences between the classes defined the way that each saw ...

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It was one of the first merchant ships sent to purchase furs for Van Tweenhuysen Company of Amsterdam (Hallowell, 1974). ... After the homogenization of goods, trade was carried out in wider circles which created a "competitive edge that was sharpened by strong feelings of nationalism", this lead to societal upheaval and produced wars. ...

• Word Count: 1870
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• Grade Level: Undergraduate