Capitalism Reports Samples For Students

Summary

The book, “Adam Smith in Beijing,” was written by Giovanni Arrighi. In his work, Giovanni portrays how China has extraordinarily risen over the years hence inviting the reassessment of the concept of “The Wealth of Nations”. In the eighteenth century, Adam Smith made predictions that eventually there would be equalization of power existing between the West and the territories conquered by the West. The book vividly explains the growth of capitalism from the days of Iberian Peninsula, Genoa, Venice, the Dutch Empire, the Spanish empire to today’s United States. Thus, the book provides a detailed explanation of the interconnections ...

ANALYSIS REPORT

Major thesis and position of author: The two argue that, to leave people to be driven in their self-interest without control and some following their luck and inheritance to own means of production will eventually reduce everyone who is not advantaged, into virtual slavery. This way, only a few will be happy but the majority will live in misery.
1. Briefly state in your own words three facts presented:
Capitalism has been proven by many analysts to be the sole reason that has led to the crumbling down of many economies in the world. Secondly, it has also ...

Society is a system of social interaction where the members belong to a common culture, although it may have diversity within it. The cultural identity of the people of the community reflects the heritage and ethnicity of that race. Michael Miller discusses the issue of capitalism and culture in his lecture. However, in the phase of Late Capitalism, with the effect of globalization, the cultural diversities of different communities are on the wane with the rise of a universal culture that aims to commercialize every aspect of art to fetch monetary benefits for the bourgeoisie. Consumer culture becomes the normative under the ...

Report: China – Communist or Capitalist?

Introduction
Many observers ask whether China’s burgeoning growth and prosperity in recent times demonstrates the success of a communist regime, or is it instead the result of China adopting capitalist principles as its privatized and competitive businesses flood the West with manufactured goods? If the latter is the case, can China still be considered as a truly Communist state, or is it becoming a Capitalist nation ruled by a Communist government? This report examines the current situation, to answer these questions.

The Research

A special report by Simon Cox (May 28, 2012) in the Economist, entitled “Pedalling prosperity” discusses features of China’s ...

The article, the introduction to crisis theories is an article that attempts to explain the crisis that is found in the capitalist countries. In a capitalist economy, the citizens own the factors of production and hence the government has no control over the resources. The citizens make the major production decisions. Since there is competition, the resources are carefully exploited in an attempt to maximize profits (Anwar, 220). The article tries to identify the failures of capitalist economy. The failures in the economy and in political sector are what the article refers to as crisis. Even though there are periods ...

This paper highlights the guidelines to be used for effective presentation of a newly established business venture’s business plan to a venture capitalist. The potential venture capitalist should be an early stage financing venture capitalist. Early stage financing capitalists is appropriate because the established venture is in a stage that demands seed financing, start up financing and first stage financing for the purposes of start up and for finishing the developments of its products. First stage financing will be eligible as will enable the business to start its activities at full-scale (Metrick, 2006).
The type of financial information that should ...

Introduction

In his book, the corrosion of character Richard Sennet portrays a disturbing and desolate picture of today’s economy. By presenting anecdotes about individuals working in what he refers to as the ‘New Economy’, he discusses about the personal consequences of work which has become part of the new capitalism. He argues that people have become disoriented because of certain concepts such as flexibility, change, decentralization and control, flextime and teamwork, which are appearing to create new opportunities for the fulfillment of workers, but In the real sense it creates modern forms of oppression and ultimately undermining the workers' emotions ...

Today, tax, trade, and unfair debt have pushed poverty all over the world to new levels. In other words, the weaknesses of poor, developing countries are being exploited by affluent countries. Philippe Diaz’s bold, disconcerting, and powerful documentary “The End of Poverty?” opens our eyes to the fact that that poverty is not a mere mishap and the victims are not to blame. This refreshing and straightforward documentary not only exposes poverty but also tries to get to the root cause of why so many people are living so poorly and are dying of malnutrition in affluent societies. Like ...

The podcast on buttons and connectors talks about the production in two companies. It relates the output power in the United States and china. Reasons are given as to why either of the two companies is successful or not. An analysis of the economy of china and the united is given close view. A talk of how the state-owned companies cut down workers to manage their budgets. Most people lost their jobs because the government was not in a position to pay them. Private companies set in and provided jobs for the unemployed. The economy of capitalism and the free ...

Identification of Policy Area

Traffic congestion is when vehicles travel at speeds slower that it would be desired because there are more vehicles than a given road or road section can handle (Wigan, 1974; Cahill, 2007). Singapore was the first country to implement an urban traffic congestion-pricing scheme. The government of Singapore through the Land Transport Authority (LTA) formulates the policies to control traffic congestion in the country especially in Singapore city (Doli, 1993; Holland & Watson, 1980). The government came about the traffic control policies upon noting that the Singapore was growing at a fast rate, many people could afford cars. In early 1970s, the ...

Upton Sinclair’s The Jungle is an exposé of the lives of immigrant workers of the meatpacking industry in Chicago. It revolves around the lives of a Lithuanian family who went to the United States in the hopes of living a better life but ended up destroyed and toyed by the rotten capitalist system. Sinclair uses the idea of the Darwinian evolution in a jungle, where powerless immigrant workers are preyed upon by cruel, wealthy and corrupt capitalists.
The book’s agenda was to provide a compelling critique of capitalism, and raise a socialist alternative. It was meant to make people realize the ...

Ethics refer to the accepted code of conduct in business operations and partnerships. They are the set rules and regulations that govern a business and the corporation itself. The ethics guidelines dictate the manner in which every partner in the firm contributes to the overall success of the business. Code of ethics demands several concepts.
As the CEO of this company, the joint-partnership with the People's Liberation could be so unethical in businesses. Business ran by the military could violate the professional code of ethics as military leaders and influential people in the government could do anything in their ...

Abstract

The current discussion is aimed at the dissection of ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability of British Petroleum (BP) by taking the case of Gulf of Mexico Oil Spill in to consideration. By commencing the discussion with an overview of the externalities present in the oil industry, the pressures on oil companies are examined which is further evaluated through the application of stakeholder theory and the theory of utilitarianism.
In the case of BP, it is revealed that the resort to CSR was primarily a reactive measure to correct its tainted brand image and save it from reputational risks. ...

Introduction

The banking sector is the defining industry of the modern era of the 21st century. The financial markets operate in order to attract and drag Foreign Direct Investment into the local market, and the national systems of the latest version of globalized world are operating as a set of corporations (Arnolda & Sikkab, 2001). They need to provide the companies with efficient market systems so that the businesses can create profit and healthy amount of return on investment as well. However, the Chinese have grown a fiscal order that is literally housing a well-organized productive capacity. The local productivity is engaged in terms ...

Introduction

It seems ridiculous to think we’re suffering a global economic crisis when bankers are receiving six figure salaries. Blame is hard to pin and the news media is reluctant to pin it but it’s because of corporate greed and institutionalized corruption at the highest levels of banking, health care and insurance companies but that is not something we want to read in the papers because people want to believe that bad people do bad things and not the people we rely on like bankers. The recession was caused by unregulated capitalism; Karl Marx once stated that capitalism sowed ...

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There is either little or no attention given to a customer in many business organizations. The employees are quick to finish serving a client without any personal contact. A classic example was during the start of a school year when I once went to buy school text books, at my arrival the bookstore, the attendant without much talking just asked for my list of books, went and brought all of them, took them to the cashier who calculated the cost. The cashier then gave me my receipt and asked (she was not polite) for cash. This showed lack of good ...

The Finance Department of firms provides correct and appropriate sources of equity capital for any new venture or start-up business to begin their operations. Any entrepreneur interested in new venture stocks up the equity capital provided by the finance department of strong firms or individuals and begins the operations. Equity capital is defined as capital cash that is free of debt provided by the business or investor to start the operation of any company. Equity capital investment done by the firms is in the form of issuing shares of the company to the firm who invested in it. Firms ...

Mahathir bin Mohamad is a Malaysian politician, born December 20, 1925, in Alor Setar, the state capital of Kedah, north west. Mahathir was the fourth Malaysian Prime Minister from 1981 to 2003. Mahathir was the youngest of ten children of a professor of Indian origin and a Malay mother. He began a career doctor before entering politics in 1964. Climbing the ladder quickly, he became Prime Minister in July 1981 and quickly gained a reputation as a maverick. Mahathir bin Muhamad was educated in Alor Setar and the King Edward VII Medical College in Singapore. He joined the administration ...

Executive Summary

SWOT analysis is a very important tool used in the process of analyzing the external and internal environment of any company. Google Inc. is the name that is equated against the assertion of being the nova in research engines all across the globe, thus, making it the first search engine in the known history of technology all around the world. In wake of completing this task, Google Inc. will be used as an example for the practical application of the SWOT technique. The SWOT analysis of Google allows unique and worthy insights in the operational environment of the company, thus, ...

Abstract

The following report describes different sources of capital a company may use in order to finance its operations and investing activities. In particular, it analyses debt financing (bonds and direct bank loans) and equity financing (Venture Capitalist Investments, Initial Public Offering, Seasoned Equity Offering and Rights Offering). Report also analyses recent IPO of Manchester United Football Club at New York Stock Exchange as a practical example of raising capital.

Sources of Capital

The impact and the importance of financing in modern business world could not be underestimated. Globalization and increasing competition have forced companies to explore new markets and offer new innovative products. According ...

In Edward Lucas’ The New Cold War: Putin’s Russia and the Threat to the West, a journalist assesses what threat the rise of Russian power may have to the west as it continues to rise in power and cause noise in its region. The book is timely, written by an Economist journalist who has been engaged with Russian activities on the ground. U.S. and Europe has sought how to answer Russia’s provocative behavior in places like Georgia and the Ukraine. Lucas has been covering Central and Eastern Europe for over a quarter of a century and wrote this book in ...

India: Reforms, Policies, Development

Report

Abstract
India’s economic miracle has always been the point of interests for western researchers. India has become a successful example of a rapidly growing economy due to a number of political, economic, social and industrial reforms. This country has become the world’s leader in hi-tech sphere, producing, supporting and implementing the world’s largest volume of software and hardware. In this report, the structural development patterns are shown during several periods, which brought tremendous shifts in economic, agricultural and industrial sphere making India the global leader in numerous aspects. However, efficient reforms have not solved certain social problems ...

VIDEO GAMES

Introduction
Political economy is the study of how different values undergo various faucets of trade; this includes production, distribution, exchange and consumption. It also involves how power goes through the same process and how the two are related. The political economy of communication is concentrated on the structures of production that are under the influence of the media. One of the major aspects of communication is video games.

Video Games

Analysis
Video games are games that are played in computers and/or are run by a console or an arcade. The video game industry are a major economic hub in the economy ...

Sustainability in a changing environment

There are several issues that are critical in the running of a company or an organization. These issues determine whether the company survives in the current world and its competition or not. Different companies have different goals to achieve. These goals however are best planned when they include the plans of the society at large to avoid conflicts. The same case applies to the company of Monsanto. The company needs to reshape its style of play so as to avoid the conflict and critique that it is undergoing now. The changes that should be applied to the company’s structure ...

Cultural Analysis of Singapore

Arguably one of the youngest nations, Singapore has been identified as one among the emergent markets as far as foreign investors are concerned. For this reason, many corporations are headed to Singapore amidst the globalization craze. While this is the case, it is exceptionally important to comprehend the culture of Singapore. Considering the main key determinants, Singapore performs as follows:
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Speaking of culture, Singapore has been recognized as a boiling pot of cultures, thanks to its rich immigrant history. For this reason, the nation is multilingual, with the primary languages being English, Mandarin Chinese, Malay language ...

Physical address

Introduction
Operational activities are critical component of businesses and organisations. Business ventures are started to provide services and products to clients. The operation is concerned with transformation of available resources into outputs which include products and services. Therefore, the management of company operations is crucial. The operation management involves planning designing, and monitoring the production process and improving systems and structures for purposes of achieving high efficiency. This requires a strategy which outlines how an operational objective is to be achieved. This report uses Apple Inc as an organization of my choice. The report will address various issues as ...

Summarize events between the U.S. and at least one (1) of the countries you wrote about in the first paper since the end of the Cold War.
After the Cold War ended in Europe, Nicaragua became a country that was more collected and composed than during the Cold War. The U.S. kept having its influence and actions in Nicaragua, just as it did right before the end of the Cold War. One of the actions was the money given to Nicaragua to stimulate the civil factions that warred against each other in Nicaragua in 1987 (Robinson, 1987).
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