Most of the school board members now and then; still unsympathetic to diversity. ... Lone Star is most intimately concerned with how different cultures and generations mix, match, and interact in a place where anglos have the wealth and power. ... Foley's discussion is by far the most complicated of the three, in two ways: 1) his brings in much more social theory, and 2) the situation that he writes about is quite complex. ... One of the most popular of those finds a lot of inspiration in the so-called "historical materialism- that was formulated by Karl Marx. ... Now, it is not surp...

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Some kind of 'cost benefit analysis' is not so easy when globalisation is perhaps the most over used and under specified concept in the international policy sciences since the passing of the 'Cold War'. ... The first two charges are the stuff of current popular and populist analysis of the international political economy of globalisation qua economic liberalisation. They find most resonance in developing countries, and especially those states of Southeast Asia for whom recent economic crises have brought back shades of the north-south contest between the developed and de...

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Abstract The purpose of this paper is to perform a critical analysis on Karl Marx and some of his most notable works. ... Throughout his vast bibliography, the most major works of Marx include: Capital, Volumes I, II and III, and the most influential, The Communist Manifesto. ... This is known as Marx's labor theory of value, and it is the basis for which most, but not all, commodities are priced. ... The least popular of the three volumes, Volume II delves much more into the dark underside of capitalism and how classes are further divided. ... Essentially, it is the obliteration of capit...

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Marx's theory of history is an account of the different stages of government through history. His analysis describes capitalism as the first stage followed by socialism and finally communism. Marx believed that socialism is where workers recognized their interests and became "class conscious". This ...

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Most liberals are enthusiastic about the economics of the free market. In the international realm, such thinking is most obvious in liberal views concerning free trade (though many liberals would take a slightly more ambiguous view than the neoliberal one set out here). ... Comparative advantage (a state's most efficient production) varies from state to state (for example, Argentina may be better at beef farming than textiles). ...

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