I have to be honest and say that I have not heard of some of these economic variations discussed. Keynesianism, for instance is something I had to read more about. It is interesting concept to me and to reach that it is the perfect set up for a Capitalism to thrive. After reading through all the … Continue reading Mixing things up…
I saw this when browsing Facebook the other night and thought I would share. I am impressed with this little one’s coordination!
I have always heard sustainability spoken about in my world of agriculture. I have not thought about it on a “big picture’ level of the economy…the world economy. It was interesting as I was reading the professors first post “Unit 2-Capitalism vs Socialism vs Communism – The Clash (long)” the section where he discussed his … Continue reading Our Problem
I read in the unit 3 blog posts about how Japan wasn’t growing enough and I thought it was pretty interesting since we just discussed this in one of my other econ courses a few weeks ago. We looked at this chart showing their population and how it is aging. The blue and pink areas show … Continue reading Aging Population in Japan
This video from youtube gives some precious ideas we need to know about Hong Kong, Singapore, South Korea, and Taiwan, the Four Asian Tigers. These nations showed an exceptional high growth between 1960 and 1990.
Sara Hsu asks if All Growth is Good? The Case of China. Of course, not all growth is good. It makes little difference, whether it’s economic or human tissue growth. Edward Abbey famously wrote that “growth for the sake of growth … Continue reading →
Sorry if I bore you with my blogs but how I lived for about 35 years in Cuba with its socialist economic system is very difficult for me to talk about economics without Cuba comes to my mind and its economy. … Continue reading →
It’s becoming pretty clear that with each post I’m going to be changing my views from the posts before. I had no idea that so much of the world depended on the U.S. dollar, and to be honest it’s a little frightening. While we’ve touched on it, I want to learn a little more about … Continue reading Unit 3 – Initial Impression
Well to be honest, I was worried given this is my first ever year at college, and since once I make it through, i’ll be the first of 2 family lines to to do so and see it through, and I was even more worried when I knew I had to take this class online […]