GGR112H1 Study Guide - Final Guide: Informal Sector, Precariat, Micronutrient Deficiency
19 Dec 2017
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Representations of other places, peoples and landscapes, cultures and natures, that articulate the desires, fantasies, and fears of their authors and the grids of power between them and their others. Set of terms and arguments about nature of reality that are tied together in a narrative that systematically shapes the reality it purports to describe it. Essential features of capitalism: constant drive for accumulation, competition leads to constant growth and expansion, capital-labour relationship, capitalist that owns the means of production and laboring class that owns nothing but their own labour. Intensive expansion: not previously subjected to capitalism. Key term of a master discourse about the general state of the world. Set of policies that goes back to small liberal ideas about laissez faire. Laissez faire less government intervention, less regulation (in finance, labour, environment, etc. : saw these policies re-emerge in the west. Free trade: open the borders to capital and goods, comparative advantage.
