Was the British entrepreneur the most important single reason for the relative decline of the British economy in the late nineteenth century? ... There was only state intervention in British education as late as 1902, and the century` s children and industries were generally regarded as ill -served. ... "The assimilation of the British business classes to the social pattern of the gentry and aristocracy had proceeded very rapidly from the mid nineteenth century, the period when so many of the so called ` public schools ` were founded, or reformed by finally excluding the poor for whom t...

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The XXI century shows the considerable gap between the rich and the poor and it is commonly admitted that it is due to globalisation. ... For example, we can see in England and in America as well, that the differences in income between upper and lower social layers are larger than they have ever been since collection of income distribution statistics began at the end of the nineteenth century. ...

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The internationalization of economic activity in Europe first took off in the fifteenth and sixteenth centuries, with the development of new shipping technology that led to Spanish colonization of Latin America. ... Similarly, the nineteenth century proved to be an era of increased international commerce, triggered by the industrial revolution but, in the 1930s, this economic expansion was reversed as political turmoil created the Great Depression. The contemporary phase of globalization only started to return global economic activity to nineteenth-century levels in the late 1970s. ...

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Adam Smith Economics is a science that most people practice everyday. Economics is the social science dealing with the use of scarce resources to obtain the maximum satisfaction of society's unlimited economic wants. Many of the ideologies of the modern world have been shaped by prominent ...

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THE SOUTH AFRICAN ECONOMY Brief economic history During the 1960s the South African economy expanded at an annual average rate of 5,5 percent and experienced average inflation of 2,4 percent. This compared with annual growth of 5,0 percent in industrialised Organisation for Economic Corporation and Development (OECD) countries and inflation of 2,9 percent. Dollar per capita income grew 73 percent during the decade. The 1970s were turbulent years internationally and the domestic economy grew by only 3,2 per cent per annum (versus 3,4 percent in OECD countries). Relative economic performan...

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