SOSC 3130 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: Economic Citizenship, Capital Control, Liberal Democracy
3 May 2019
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Post-war reconstruction gendering of the welfare state. Introduced for labour unrest: tried to ward off revolutions. Memories of fascism: need to transform capitalist system. General perception: laissez-faire instability: establish world order for greater stability. Commitment to create prosperity for everyone: historical anomaly, 1945-1970: really unusual , consensus, declaration of human rights; 1948, declaration of: women, indigenous, youths, have human rights, and have standards for it. International institutions and agreements: new world order, balance between global and national economy, gap, tariffs set low; gradually reduced since great depression. Exports: led to domestic economy, and development of it. Goods production in nation"s own economy: established core of ontario"s economy in 1965, capital control, money cannot be invested outside; focused on domestic economy. Trade was very important on world scale: allow national economies to flirt . Imf provided loans to developing countries: attempt to grow a global order, and help them start-up their economies.
