Posts in Economics

Theory 1 - Value Added Partnerships Johnson and Lawrence (1991) introduced the theory of value-added partnerships. The theory of value-added partnerships contends that suppliers and customers...

Globalisation has changed the movement and global flows of people and things across nations and continents. Some who suggest that globalisation has gone too far and seek to reverse the tide of...

1.   The Ongoing Problems with Marxist Imperialist Theory and the Movement towards Decolonising the Curriculum To the man with a hammer, everything seems to look like a nail.[1] Whilst...

1.   The History of Neoliberalism Just as the term ‘capitalism’ was developed as a word to critique the alternative of the mercantilist concepts Adam Smith sought to change, the term...

Introduction to Research Questions and Hypotheses Contel and Wójcik (2019) investigate the growth and decline of financial hubs and the services provided within cities in Brazil. The analysis...

A work co-written with my daughter and extending her paper. Kim and Gates (2015) investigated the role of power transition theory in the rise of the People’s Republic of China (PRC) and explored...

Turn on, tune in, drop out. Reality is hard. The Animals understood just how hard, but encouraged people to eschew reality, and embrace the counterculture being fomented under the surface of a...

The progressive liberal concept had been developing in vehemence from before the start of the Great War. Educational scholars such as Dewey (2019) believed that a rational education would create...

The major problem I see from the late 19th century to the early 20th century stems from an unbridled belief in the power of technology. The United States had been built on a foundation of...

Tucker (2007, p. 4) explains how both the circumstances of the American position and the nation's political views and outlook changed drastically in the period between 1812 and 1914. Up until...