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| | | | | Many "global historians" arguethat the British cotton industry was the product of (unintentional) infant industry protection from Indian competition inthe 18th century.The variousCalico Actscreated an import-substitution industry by banning Indian cloths and reserving the home market for British producers. This supposedly gave them the freedom to invent and adopt the machines that led to the... | |
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| | | | | This essay is a longer, earlier draft for a competition I participated in but did not win! Enjoy! The trio of Entrepreneurship, Capitalism and Government policy plays an important role in allowing for mobility between various socio-economic classes. By leveraging the strengths of each element and implementing complementary strategies, we can achieve a more inclusive and prosperous society. According to the World Bank (2008a), more than 1.4 billion people worldwide live in poverty. | |
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| | | | | Welfare programs can't be replaced by policies that redistribute income from some businesses to others, or from capital to labor - the primary function of the welfare state is to provide for children, disabled people, and others outside the labor force. | |
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| | | One of the more impressive state owned and operated railway networks in the USA, is that of NJ Transit. With about 690,000 daily workday passengers, 209 million annual trips and a thousand miles of tracks it ranks it ranked the 6th Transportation Authority in the country by Annual Trips, with 206 million and second by... | ||