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Economics in the Milagro Beanfield War

May 18th, 2010 admin No comments

New Mexico is a great place to play some golf; also a good place to grow beans. The “Milagro Beanfield War” is about a group of New Mexicans trying to save their homes from being bought by Devine Development Corporation who wants to turn it into a resort. Joe Mondragon is the only person in Milagro who doesn’t sell his land to Devine because of his dead fathers dried up beanfield. Joe gets mad at the fact that everybody in Milagro sells their land to Devine Corporation offering good jobs when the resort is up, Joe diverts water from Devines’ land and begins growing beans; thus begins the “Beanfield War.”

Market Economic system was used the most in this film, meaning the individuals own the factors of production and set their own prices while the government does not get in the way. In the film Joe, a young entrepreneur who started to grow beans, showed this. In the end of the movie the beans were all his and he had a choice of what to do with them. The capital for Devine was much greater than Joe’s beanfield. This meant Joe had more to pay; involvement, with the government; (Command economy) than Devine Corporation did because Ladd Devine (owner of Devine Corporation) was very good friends with Sammy Canto (mayor of Milagro) making the government very angry with Joe and tries to find something stupid to arrest him for it. Since the Devine Corporation had more things to offer than Joe’s beanfield, like more people visiting when the resort went up then the economic system in Milagro would increase also. The government was very excited that Devine was there and wanted no mistakes. Traditional economic system was shown very little in this film other than religious bits here and there and Joe’s beanfield that was passed down to him from his father. Read more…

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How to Write a Good Economics Dissertation

August 18th, 2009 admin No comments

Developing a good Economics dissertation will be submitted to your educational institution – college, university, or school – for the completion of your degree program. Successful completion of this work will include research and a problem statement. A problem statement is defined as a statement that will provide the reader with concise and specific information regarding the problem, its nature, the causes, and the implications of the problem. Usually a problem statement will be one sentence; however, the problem statement, like a topic statement, may be followed by defining sentences that further develop the information from your sentence. The problem statement paragraph of your Economics dissertation should still be a complete paragraph with 3 to 4 sentences at minimum and not more than eight sentences in total. Read more…

Women Blinded by Economics

July 24th, 2009 admin No comments

During the Gilded Age many people became extremely rich and kept getting richer and richer, while on the other hand the poor just kept getting poorer during this era. The economics during this time period was an essential of being categorized as a “well known” citizen or a “common” citizen in society. The line between the economic classes was drawn very distinctly at this time in the world. In “The House of Mirth,” by Edith Wharton, this fact of economic segregation is brought to ones attention several times. Edith Wharton shows this separation especially when it comes to the women characters in the book and how they interact in society. Wharton shows the differences between economics and women through the main character, Lily Bart, and how she is a slave to money, also the truth about how women during these times are dependent on the males in their lives to support them, and how Lily’s family views money.

Lily Bart is the main character that throughout the entire novel is caught between the economic strain in her life and happiness. Lily Bart has never been around a lot of money while she was growing up, but the entire story is about her trying to be something she is not. This is a huge irony in the story because Lily thinks she has freedom when she meets a man that is wealthy, but she is really hurting herself because she will never be truly happy with someone like that. The other side to this irony is that when Lily gets farther and farther into debt she feels that she enslaved. This comes when she meets men that are not up to the standard of living that she wants them to be at. The best example of this is when Lily meets Seldon and does not marry him because he does not flaunt his money like other men she has met. Wharton shows that during this day and age the females depend on males to give them a great lifestyle so that they are not known to be apart of the poor half of the society.

The biggest theme in this book is how Wharton paints the picture of women being totally dependent on the men in their lives. Wharton definitely expresses this through Lily Bart and how she deals with money. The fact that Lily cannot even recognize when she is extremely far in debt and that marrying someone that has a lot of money will not solve all of her problems. Another example of the female sex being dependent on the male sex is when Wharton brings the Trenor’s and Dorsett’s to the reader’s attention. These two families, actually couples, are very wealthy people in this society. These are the people that always have the lavish parties and invite only the other most wealthy and well known people from town to their gatherings. Mrs. Trenor shows at many times during parties she throws that the most important reason she married her husband is because she is able to throw these magnificent parties. She likes to have the most expensive and best items at her dinners. Read more…

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Thoeries of Economist

April 15th, 2009 admin No comments

In This essay I will explain the theories of six different economists. The six economists are Thomas Malhtus, Adam Smith, Karl Marx, David Ricardo, John Maynard Keynes, and Henry Ford. Each one of these economists has a unique view on our economy, otherwise known as their theories.

Thomas Malthus was an economist with a soft spot for the poor. Malthus was extremely concerned about the rate of population growth and food production. Malthus concluded that a large portion of humanity was doomed to a life of misery. He opposed legislation to provide relief and housing for those living in poverty. Some people believed such aid would simply encourage the poor to have more children and worsen their lot. Critics believed his theory would only worsen population growth. You can read more about his concerns on population in his famous ‘Essay on Population’.

In 1776 Adam Smith earned the title, “The Father of Economics.” His novel, The Wealth of Nations, was also published this year, which described the main elements of England’s economic system. In Smith’s view, a nations wealth depended on the production of a variety of goods and services. Smith’s overall theory was his belief that the economy would work best if left to function on it’s own without government regulation. Subsequently self- interest would lead business firms to produce them at the lowest possible cost. When people questioned his theory, Smith used the metaphor, “invisible hand,” to explain his regulation. This let individuals and businesses function without interference from government regulation or monopolies. Overall, Adam Smith’s theories, as stated in his novel, are some of the best descriptions of the principles on which we base our political and economics systems.
In the 20th century Karl Marx was considered to be history’s greatest economist. Marx concentrated on the time to find the real reasons why people and nations behaved as they did. He believed that history has been a series of struggles between economic classes. Marx said that the working class would be overthrown by capitalism. This created the social revolution, which would force the rich and wealthy to share. Under capitalism he believed the rich would get richer and the poor would get poorer. Because workers were under paid, they would be unable to buy the goods and services they produced. His theory would allow workers to buy what they themselves produced.

First of all Henry Ford is the creator of Ford cars. His believed in mass production, had socialistic ideas, and paid laborers more than average. His main theory would allow his workers to be able to by a Ford car, which is what they produced. Some more of his theories were that, they can afford to use the full benefits of the division of labor, They can buy in quantities that entitle them to discounts on raw materials, they can afford to purchase specialized machinery and equipment to reduce unit cost, and that they can afford to invest in research and development programs that enable the company to reduce production costs and produce new and improved products. You can all tell that Henry Ford was not an arrogant man.

John Maynard Keynes believed the government should spend some money. If the government spent money Keynes believed there would be no unemployment. This would lead to a resurgence of business activity, and the restoration of full employment. He demonstrated that unemployment could persist indefinitely, unless someone stepped in to increase total demand. Keynes’s book General Theory of Employment, Interest, and Money transformed economic thinking in the 20th century. His book demonstrated that it was possible for total supply and demand to be at equilibrium at a point well under full employment.

David Ricardo is the classical champion of free trade. Free trade is a policy in which tariffs and other barriers to trade between nations are removed. Later, Ricardo developed the principle of comparative advantage. It demonstrated how one nation might profitably import goods from another even though the importing country could produce that item for less than the exporter. An example is: * X barrels of wine are equal to (and therefore trade evenly for) Y yards of cloth. Because of free trade protective tariffs are available, quotas, dumping is available, and other tactics they are extremely useful in today’s economy.

In conclusion, every one of these historical theories lives on in today’s economy as well as our government. I believe the most useful theory’s today are free trade, so that people can produce better products and make a better profit, and Ford’s theory that laborers should be able to buy and own what they produce. Without most laborers we wouldn’t have baggers at the grocery store, mechanics, taxi drivers, or people to make our cars. These are laborers we shouldn’t take advantage of.

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