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Papers On Economic History
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Nursing Education Bill
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A 6 page examination of literature and discussion pertaining to the Nursing Education and Quality of Health Care Act of 2007 (S. 1604). The purpose of this legislation is primarily to increase the nation’s workforce in regards to well-educated nurses. By 2014, current estimates predict that the nation will need 1.2 million new and replacement nurses (Clinton, 2007). The bill now before the Senate will provide funding for grants and other financial programs in rural communities, which is a strategy intended to encourage the “recruitment and retention of nursing students, nursing faculty and nurses who serve in rural areas” (Clinton, 2007). Bibliography lists 3 sources.
Filename: khs1604.rtf
Old Money and the Nouveau Riche
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A 6 page paper discussing wealth's effects on people using the Rockefellers, Andrew Carnegie and Warren Buffet as examples. The paper also considers whether the Gilded Age was destined to fail, concluding it was because it was not sustainable. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
Filename: KSwarrBuffXt.rtf
Origin Of Socioeconomic System
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6 pages in length. The political philosophies that
contributed to the foundations, doctrines and formulae of the contemporary socioeconomic system originated from the procedure set forth by Ancient Greek political theory. The writer discusses the birth of contemporary socioeconomics as it relates to Ancient Greece and Michael Parenti.
Bibliography lists 8 sources.
Filename: TLCparen.wps
PAUL VOLCKER AND ALAN GREENSPAN
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This 14-page paper discusses the tenures of U.S. Fed chairmen Paul Volcker and Alan Greenspan, as well as general economic terms. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: MTvolgre.rtf
Payment of Wages Under the Fair Labor Standards Act
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A 10 page paper which
presents an overview of the Fair Labor Standards Act as it involves payment of wages. In
addition, the paper also discusses the history of the act. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
Filename: RApaywages.wps
Post-Civil War U.S. and the Predictions of Karl Marx
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This 6 page report discusses the theories of Karl Marx and their relationship to the evolution of big business in the United States and the altering of the economic reality of the nation after the Civil War and into the 20th century.
Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: BWpredic.rtf
Post-Emigration Economic Conditions in Europe
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A 5 page paper discussing how mass
emigration affected economic conditions in Europe prior to 1914. Nearly 60 million Europeans
departed their various homelands for the New World during the 50 years preceding World War I.
Certainly emigration played a primary role in shaping Europe's economy at the beginning of the
20th century and its effects are evident even now, at the beginning of the 21st. It also is useful in
explaining the still-sustained decrease in inequality between 1800 and 1914. Bibliography lists 7
sources.
Filename: KSemigEcon.wps
Production Ownership Revisited
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A 7 page paper discussing the economic
classification theory of Egon Neuberger and its relevance in the emerging world economy. The
paper strives to use Neuberger's classification system to characterize economies based solely on
ownership of means of production. That classification had meaning before the fall of communism,
but even China no longer qualifies as a centrally planned economy under production ownership
criteria. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
Filename: KSneuberger.wps
Questions on "The rich, the poor and the growing gap between them"
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A 4 page paper discussing an article appearing in The Economist in 2006 discussing the growing disparity of the rich, poor and middle class in America since 2000. Bibliography lists 1 source.
Filename: KSeconUSchng.rtf
Race and Ethnic Relations: A Historical Market Perspective
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A 5 page exploration of the effect of race and ethnicity on U.S. economy. Explores the issue from a historical perspective which emphasizes the market revolution on the 1850s. Concludes that this revolution resulted in racial and ethnic hierarchy in the U.S. being determined to a much greater degree by profit margin than by cultural markers. Bibliography lists 5 sources.
Filename: PPmrkRev.wps