material or substantive rationality (coined by sociologist Max Weber)
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material or substantive rationality (Weber's materielle Rationalität)
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material or substantive rationality (Weber's materielle Rationalität)
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7 years, 8 months ago
Kondratieff cycles
(en)
a proposed economic phenomenon whereby profits decrease over time (as monopolistic forces decline), in a cycle; phases: expansion, stagnation, and recession
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First, the Kondratieff cycles: In order to accumulate significant amounts of capital, producers require a quasi-monopoly
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7 years, 8 months ago
First, the Kondratieff cycles: In order to accumulate significant amounts of capital, producers require a quasi-monopoly
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7 years, 8 months ago
financialization
(en)
the process whereby the financial industry becomes more prominent
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[...] concentrate on profits in the financial sector. Today we speak of such "financialization" as though it were an invention of the 1970s
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7 years, 8 months ago
[...] concentrate on profits in the financial sector. Today we speak of such "financialization" as though it were an invention of the 1970s
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7 years, 8 months ago
abscissa
(en)
(mathematics, in a system of coordinates) the distance from a point to the vertical or y -axis, measured parallel to the horizontal or x -axis; the x -coordinate
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and the x-axis or abscissa measuring time
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7 years, 8 months ago
and the x-axis or abscissa measuring time
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7 years, 8 months ago
Oder-Neisse line
(en)
the international border between Germany and Poland; drawn at the Potsdam Conference in the aftermath of WWII
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running from the Oder-Neisse line in central Europe to the 38th Parallel in Korea
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7 years, 8 months ago
running from the Oder-Neisse line in central Europe to the 38th Parallel in Korea
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7 years, 8 months ago
autarkic
(en)
the condition of self-sufficiency, especially economic, as applied to a nation; a national policy of economic independence
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reinforced the autarkic character of the Soviet zone
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reinforced the autarkic character of the Soviet zone
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7 years, 8 months ago
syndical
(en)
of or relating to a union of persons engaged in a particular trade
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collectively make demands on the employer in one form or other of syndical action
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7 years, 8 months ago
collectively make demands on the employer in one form or other of syndical action
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7 years, 8 months ago
Solidarność
(en)
a Polish labour union that was founded on 17 September 1980;s the first trade union in a Warsaw Pact country that was not controlled by a communist party
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The austerity measures that the Polish government put into effect in order to make debt payments were the trigger for Solidarność
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7 years, 8 months ago
The austerity measures that the Polish government put into effect in order to make debt payments were the trigger for Solidarność
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7 years, 8 months ago
world-systems theory
(en)
multidisciplinary, macro-scale approach to world history and social change which emphasizes the world-system (and not nation states) as the primary (but not exclusive) unit of social analysis; pioneered by Immanuel Wallerstein in 1974
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World-system theory complicates the pattern by a succession of hegemonies marked by major wars
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7 years, 8 months ago
World-system theory complicates the pattern by a succession of hegemonies marked by major wars
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7 years, 8 months ago
defined by Joseph Schumpeter in 1939 as enterprise carried out with borrowed money
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