Economics Essays and Term Papers

of Fields (part of the political-cultural approach) to the market of operating systems. Two rivals are identified (Micrsoft and Linux). Patent rights, conception of control, emergence and crisis of the market are subsections discussed. The paper includes…

in the United States, there have been many cycles with both positive and negative affects on the economy as well as the society. Many events or conditions can be associated with unemployment, there being a relationship between the two. When the…

without representation" could rally the colonists against the British Crown in 1776, tight money and ruinous interest rates might be cause for populist revolt in our own day. Federal Reserve monetary policy also has onerous social burdens, measured by…

since statehood. In 1958, defense, sugar, and pineapple were the primary economic activities, accounting for 40% of Gross State Product (GSP). In contrast, visitor-related expenditures stood at just over 4% of Hawaii's GSP prior to statehood.…

in the world. Only the United States has a higher gross national product (GNP). There is a 0% annual growth, and 2% inflation currently while the official currency is the yen. Over the years there have been many different cycles in the Japanese Econom…

competitive industry in long-run equilibrium? In this essay I will discuss the assumptions behind the model of a perfectly competitive industry in long-run equilibrium. The economist's model of perfect competition is highly theoretical, but…

CNN terrorist analyst Peter L. Bergen's attempts to uncover the events, individual players and political factors that lead Osama Bin Laden to grow to be the mastermind behind the terrorist attacks against the United States on September 11th. Throughout…

socio-economic effects. Crisis and new order of Asian economies are described, all according to the socio-political approach of N.Fligstein. Table of Contents 1. Introduction1 1.1 Problem statement1 1.2 Outline1 2. The field of world…

bank consolidation, its impact on a local economy, and the growing trend of bank mergers and acquisitions that the United States has faced over the past decade. In this case we examine the 1993 merger between First National Bank of Amarillo and the…

because of the imbalance between our desires and available resources, forces us to make economic choices, and implies the need to use resources efficiently. Scarcity exists because of a lack of enough resources to satisfy all desired uses of…