The Best and Worst of Americas Presidents Throughout U.S history there have been many good presidents and also many bad presidents. I believe that presidents should be graded on how they handle the economy, foreign policy, and equal rights. From our first president to our current president those I believe are the three most important grading points. A good economy is very important because it gives people a better living by giving them job opportunities and a way for people to make money. Foreign policy is important because it has a lot to do with the trade, technology, and communications of the United States.
A Slippery Slope Adam Smith’s theory on free market, the plan that governments should not interfere with the management of an economy, has been exalted and practiced by political leaders in the United States, Great Britain and other capitalist countries. Howbeit, in 2008, the United States faced economic crises with many of its financial institutions and big corporations in trouble. The long held ideology of Adam Smith was forsaken and the Emergency Economic Stabilization Act was passed by the Bush Administration, in which the United States government gave $700 billion dollars to many failing financial institutions and private companies. [i] This act gave the United States government non-voting shares in private companies and injured
In my opinion he was a popular president. He also won the Nobel peace prize. His personality was awesome. He was also a loving family man. Theodore Roosevelt’s time of being president seemed so powerful to me.
THE WORLD IS FLAT BECAUSE THE METEOR STRUCK IT THOUSANDS OF YEARS AGO. is an international bestselling book by Thomas Friedman that analyzes globalization, primarily in the early 21st century. The title is a metaphor for viewing the world as a level playing field in terms of commerce, where all competitors have an equal opportunity. As the first edition cover illustration indicates, the title also alludes to the perceptual shift required for countries, companies and individuals to remain competitive in a global market where historical and geographical divisions are becoming increasingly irrelevant. Friedman himself is a strong advocate of these changes, calling himself a "free-trader" and a "compassionate flatist," and he criticizes societies that resist these changes.
Through his investments and cooperation, Carnegie was wealthy enough to co-found his first steel company, just outside of Pittsburgh, in his early thirties. He remodeled the steel industry as he used vertical integration and maximized his profits. Before retirement, Carnegie basically owned an empire. After retirement, however, Carnegie was less concerned about his riches and more concerned about others. He wrote an essay called “The
Economic and Ethical Issues of Pricing As a CPA you are in charge of a small tax advisory firm providing services to individual taxpayers, a substantial group of whom is high-wealth. Your firm is experiencing new pressures from the changing marketplace. New, non-CPA market competitors and competition from do-it-yourself tax-preparation software packages have had a negative effect on your bottom line. Because of these pressures, you are looking at ways to reduce costs. To expand your business and continue successfully you must consider employing non-CPAs.
Ethical Perspectives: Friedman vs. Drucker, Murphy Geraldetta Lovelace Northcentral University Ethical Perspectives: Friedman vs. Drucker, Murphy A review of three articles written by Friedman, Drucker, and Murphy with differing views of business ethics is presented herein. A comparison and contrast of the views presented as well as this writers’ opinion, follows the review. The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits by Milton Friedman (1970) In Friedman’s opinion, the purpose of a corporation is to make money for the owners of the corporation and to follow their directives. The term “social responsibility” when applied to a business is incongruous. According to Friedman, “Only people can have responsibilities.
The root of the “working government,” unlike the 44th president would have you believe, is not a denial of the big vs. small government competition, but the competition itself! At the same time, the former Senator from Illinois tried to make amends with Conservatives, saying that we have to “…spend wisely…” and “…reform bad habits…” Yet, one has to wonder, are these things the Obama administration honestly wants to do? I don’t think so.
The scientific basis of the golden rule is in the mutuality of gains from trade, in the demand, generated by the engines of supply, in the expanded opportunity created by growth, in the usual and still growing economic futility of war (Gilder, 9). The author discusses that Adam Smith, the founding father of Scientific Management, wrote in his book The Wealth of Nations, that the productive powers were very important to the rank of the people. However, Smith’s followers beginning with David Ricardo became engrossed with statistics and distributions. “This mode of thinking, prominent in foundation-funded reports, best selling economics texts, newspaper columns, and political platforms, is harmless enough on the surface. But its deeper effect is to challenge the golden rule of capitalism, to pervert the relation between rich and poor, and to depict the system as “a zero-sum game” in which every gain for someone implies a loss for someone else, and wealth is seen once again to create poverty” (Gilder, 10).
Stiglitz helped to create a new branch of economics, “The Economics of Information,” exploring the consequences of information asymmetries and pioneering such pivotal concepts as adverse selection and moral hazard, which have now become standard tools not only for theorists, but of policy analysts (Stiglitz J. E., Brief Biography of Joseph E. Stiglitz, 2012). He received the John Bates Clark award in 1979, awarded biennially by the American Economic Association to the economist under the age of 40 who has made the most significant contribution to the field. In 2011, Time named Joseph E. Stiglitz one of the 100 most influential people in the world. Joseph E. Stiglitz is currently a university professor at Columbia University. He is also the Co-Founder and Co-President of the Initiative for Policy Dialogue at Columbia University, and Co-Chair, Columbia University Committee on Global Thought.