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W 4 :
Capitalist revolution

· Economics individuals and firms ,
interactions and decisions




Economists focusses :

today
job & labour market
inequality
creation



inflation




standards
easuring living
Gross Domestic Product market value of output of of
GDP measures an
economy
in
given period time



GDP per capita standards
living income
·

average
measures
average
GDP
GDP per capita
=

population

Until world India
1800's half the
manufacturing output of came from and China




Great
ockey stick
divergence
no economic
growth
took
place
ndustrial revolution 17th
in
century
economic
growth



Reversal of fortune




sustained standards
growth
:

living
no in




Hockey stick sustained rapid growth in
=
curves




GDP world wide
per capita experienced by countries



Sustained
growth began different places
at times &


·
Some substantial standards
economies
improvements in
living
=




did independence
not occur until
gained from colonial rule


interference
by EU nations




Countries and sustained
growth
1st :
Britain -> 1650



2nd : Italy
- 1780



3rd : Japan + 1870

,African
hockey
stick Botswana
Hockey stick


Years of and colonial
slavery
rule of
one the
highest per capita economic
growth rates over
pastso years

Lack of data economic
growth of Botswana
·
to formed
measure
good capitalist policies basis
·
economy

of
institutions
private property


Yeasuring economic
growth
GDPcurrentyear
GDP
· Growth rate =
previousas 100




GDP capita of
measure
wellbeing
as
per

take health, education
doesn't into account
happiness
· :
,




GDP a "better" measure than
disposable income



disposable income =


wages profit
, , rent
,
interest and transfer
payments from
government or other




Disposable income
ignores
[included GBP3
social and
physical environment public goods government provided
,
in



free time home production



GDP
per capita is more informative to show how positions changed over time




ndustrial revolution


technology
=

process that uses set of
inputs to
produce output

less labour to
produce same
output




Capitalism
an economic
system
of
economic
system way organising production and distribution of
goods and services in entire
economy
·
Built around combination of institutions


firms
private property
markets


·
capitalist economies
rely on
non-capitalist institutions



capitalism-state undertakes & commercial and what of nationalised
State business economic
activity means
production are



welfare
capitalism = includes social welfare policies and
practice of businesses
providing welfare services to
employees
social capitalism = values all forms of
capital ; social human
,
, capital and natural capital

finance capitalism predominance of accumulation of
profits financial
system
= in a




urbo
Capitalism Edward Lattwak : financial and for
deregulation privatisation tax cuts
wealthy
=

,

, Capitalism democracy
individual freedom of
Democracy political where
rights include speech and fair elections
:

system
·




Capitalism distincts from
democracy
· :
is



capitalism coexist with
many political systems
before
democracy
Britain
capitalism emerged in and other countries




Capitalism improved living
standards


Specialisation growth firms and of markets allowed for unprecedented division of labour
· =
of expansion


technology-firms competing with 1 another had
strong
incentives to
adopt and
develop new and more productive technologies
Ideas of Adam Smith
Capitalism =




Gains from specialisation
focus limited of
they
productive when activities due to :
more on
range

difference in
ability economies of scale




Learning by doing
·
People specialise if
acquire other
goods they need


·
Specialisation division of labour raises
question of how
goods are distributed
among people



2 Distinctions to determine who is better at
production

Absolute
advantage able fewer production of
good than another
·
is in
person to
inputs person
=
use a




higher value


Comparative advantage =
cost to a
person of
producing another
good is lower than cost to another
person
to
produce the same2
goods
lower value




production distribution of different
Institutions different sets of laws
regulating
and
goods in
ways
distribution of
Economic
system- way
of
organising production
and
goods and services in
economy
·




Authoritarian political
democracy and
plurality
liberties
government-political system
that rejects civil
·
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