Week 2 Flashcards
Lectures, notes, (12 cards)
Economic Nationalism (realism)
protection of national economy (support own economy also not to be dependant on other countries), pretence that international economy is anarchical.
Economy from a liberal perspective
Focus: Cooperation, economic progress through interaction. Economic interdependence will create harmony.
Liberal ideology - Gulpin
Markets rise to satisfy human needs (natural process). Individuals have complete information to make economic choices. Economics should be governed by law of demand
Relation ship between politics and economics according to realism
Politics determine economic life
Relationship between politics and economics according to Liberalism
Both develop separately from each other
Relationship economics & politics according to marxism
Economic life determines political life
Realist economics
Primacy of power (balancing)
Harmony of interest
Liberal belief about economics
Capitalistic Peace
liberal, open economies foster mutual dependence
and peacability
What do state policies reflect according to liberalist?
Preferences of individuals
Pluralist politics
the view that in liberal democracies power is (or should be) dispersed among a variety of economic and ideological pressure groups and is not (or should not be) held by a single elite or group of elites