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  • Capital Punishment

    Introduction Capital Punishment, legal infliction of death as a penalty for violating criminal law. Throughout history people have been put to death for various forms of wrongdoing. Methods of execution have included such practices as crucifixion, stoning, drowning, burning at the stake, […]

  • Industrial Action

    Industrial action in the International Trade Union Rights Area Definition of Industrial action provided by ITUC-CSI-IGB: Any form of action taken by a group of workers, a union or an employer during an industrial dispute to gain concessions from the other party, e.g. a strike, go-slow or an […]

  • Industrialization Rise

    Capitalism The rise of IndustrializationThe ideas of Smith and the physiocrats provided the ideological and intellectual background for the Industrial Revolution-the material side of the sweeping transformations in society and the world that characterized the 19th century. No precise date c…

  • Modern Capitalism Beginnings

    Capitalism Beginnings of Modern CapitalismTwo developments paved the way for the emergence of modern capitalism; both took place in the latter half of the 18th century. The first was the appearance of the physiocrats in France after 1750; and the second was the devastating impact that the i…

  • Capital Punishment Current Status

    Capital Punishment World Trends Current StatusBy the early 21st century, for the first time in history, most of the world's nations had abolished the death penalty in law or in practice-that is, executions were not carried out or a moratorium was imposed on the death penalty so that cap…

  • Capitalism Characteristics

    Capitalism Characteristics of CapitalismThroughout its history, but especially during its ascendency in the 19th century, capitalism has had certain key characteristics. First, basic production facilities-land and capital-are privately owned. Capital in this sense means the buildings, machi…

  • Capitalism Future

    Capitalism Outlook for the futureFor 25 years after World War II the mixture of Keynesian ideas with traditional forms of capitalism proved extraordinarily successful. Western capitalist countries, including the defeated nations of World War II, enjoyed nearly uninterrupted growth, low rate…

  • Capitalism In The 20th Century

    Capitalism 20th-Century CapitalismFor most of the 20th century capitalism was buffeted by wars, revolution, and depression. World War I brought revolution and a Marxist-based communism to Russia. The war also spawned the Nazi system in Germany, a malevolent mixture of capitalism and state s…

  • Capitalism Mercantilism

    Capitalism MercantilismFrom the 15th to the 18th century, when the modern nation-state was being born, capitalism not only took on a commercial flavor but also developed in another special direction known as mercantilism. This peculiar form of capitalism attained its highest level in Englan…

  • Capitalism Origins

    Capitalism OriginsMerchants and trade are as old as civilization itself, but capitalism as a coherent economic system had its origins in Europe in the 13th century, toward the close of the feudal era. Human beings, Adam Smith said, have always had a propensity to "truck, barter, and ex…

  • Capital Punishment Development

    Capital Punishment Development For most of recorded history, capital punishment was available to every government for especially serious crimes and often for a great variety of less serious offenses. The term felony, which today signifies all serious crime, was the traditional classification in England for crimes punishable by death. Since the 18th century, the long-term…

  • History of Industrial Councils

    History of Industrial Councils History of Industrial Councils in the United Kingdom The formation of joint industrial councils (or, as they are commonly called, “Whitley Councils” ) has been one of the most important sequels of wartime developments in the attempt to adjust the relations of employers and employees in the organization of British industry.…

  • Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property 7

    Paris Convention for the Protection of Industrial Property   Article 16 (1) (a) The Union shall have a budget. (b) The budget of the Union shall include the income and expenses proper to the Union, its contribution to the budget of expenses common to the Unions, and, where applicable, the sum made available to the…

  • Economics

    Liberalism: Economics Introduction to Economics The crisis concerning economic power was more profound. One branch of liberal philosophy was its economics as developed by the so-called classical economists, notably the Scottish philosopher Adam Smith and British economist David Ricardo. […]

  • Financial Accounting

    Financial accounting includes information disseminated to parties that are not part of the enterprise proper—stockholders, creditors, customers, suppliers, regulatory commissions, financial analysts, and trade associations—although the information is also of interest to the […]