In order for a freer market economy to take place, a system of regulations needed to be placed in order to be able to govern the market based on competitive forces rather than social norms. ... Similarly an oligopoly where there is only a small select number of companies providing a specific service, price can become very uncompetitive and does not necessarily reflect the needs and wants of the consumer. ... Globally, there have been mass layoffs within big and small businesses due to downsizing and efforts to compete in free market-based economies by utilizing advances in technology that fo...

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Seeing as fee paying schools are, by their very nature, accessible to only a small portion of the population through their fees and the family connections required to attend, they are merely another social mechanism to retain Britain's wealth within a select elite. ... Granted, those who receive financial assistance at such institutions are undoubtedly a small minority – even in today's political climate, only 20% of current Etonians receive means tested financial assistance, but these schemes' existence in the first place surely dispels any notion of the ruling class...

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This historical event, which took place from the eighteenth to the nineteenth century, shifted agricultural, rural societies to industrial, urban societies in Europe and North America. ... In addition to the new elite classes was an emerging, "middle class of small business owners, factory managers, engineers, and professionals," which benefitted greatly from industrialization (Berkley 500). ...

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Ziai expertly delivers an overview of the post-development movement, having arisen in the 1980s as a response to the dissatisfaction with the concept and practice of "development" already in place. Ziai more or less defines this movement as placing an emphasis on alternatives to development via grassroots, local and regional movements. ... This would include recognizing what is already in place in the area, emphasizing relations rather than the logics of development, and building upon the economic interdependence of individuals and groups. ...

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Multinational production capitalizes on the resources and skills available in different places, making cars cheaper. ... Marxists concentrate less on efficiency gains (though many accept these may take place) and focus more on how changing production provides new kinds of economic power that can be used to extort profits from those that are weaker. ... If policy is less attractive, business can threaten to move somewhere else, thus creating difficult choices for government about the balance between the need to keep business in place and the desire to tax and regulate it in the interests of th...

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