Exam 2 Flashcards
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2 Types of research in Quality of Life
- subjective - life satisfaction or happiness
- objective approach - social indicators and quantitative stats
what is QOL?
Quality of Life
Legatum Prosperity Index
- Economy
- Entrepreneurship
- Governance
- Education
- Health
- Safety and security
7.personal freedom
8.social capital
Government services are..
broad and extensive, BUT in poor counties there are spottier government services
What is the social responsibility of Government Regarding Business?
- inflation act of 2022 - medicare, clean energy incentives, and IRS changes
- TARP - trouble assets relief program (2008) - to bail out banks, insurers, and automakers
Imperfections of government activity
- taxes
-corruption
2 types of intervention in markets
- indirect
- direct
government direct market intervention
operates the markets themselves, subsidies and tax breaks, owns business in key areas like energy, transportation
(i.e - russia, china)
government indirect intervention in markets
R & D, and support of education system
unconstrained political views
liberal
- humans are willing to care for others
- open to new experiences
- tolerance and diversity
constrained political views
conservative - views human nature darkly, sees human as self-motivated
Who is Bob Inglis?
2015 profile in courage winner
modern government focuses on QOL more than
businesses (i.e. the Fukushima disaster)
the boundaries btw businesses and the government are gray
i.e. - GM and Chrysler bailouts 2009
benefits of globalization
more choices and lower prices
costs to globalization
inequities, low wages, pollution, overconsumption, criminal trafficking, illegal drugs, human slaves
Reckitt Benkiser
firm with global culture (UK based, health & home products)
Globalists - for globalization!
Thomas L. Friedman
- thinks globalization replaced the cold war
- globalization is 3 things: markets, nation-states, technologies
anti-globalists
- William Kilbourne (macro marketer)
- thinks it’s neo liberalism that applied to the world - Joseph Stiglitz (economist)
- think trade liberalization shouldn’t be governments responsibility
- thinks government should promote: equity, employment, trade reforms
semi - globalists
- Thomas P. Barnett (social critic)
- globalization should be extended everywhere
- core vs. gap counties (strong vs. weak globalization) - Pankaj Ghemawat
- thinks current world state is globalization
5 global flows
- goods/services
- energy
- financial
4.security - people
Globalization “top down” phenomenon
(current) the global market undermines national sovereignty and democratic choice is constrained to trivial matters
globalization “bottom up” phenomenon
i.e. CA college students protest worker wages in china
“snowbalization” after COVID
- rethought global supply chain, re-did trade deals, and there is more regionalism and nationalism