In compiling unemployment statistics for the United States and other developed countries, an unemployed person is defined as anyone who is capable of working and is actively seeking work but is unable to find a job.1Before a person can be unemployed in this sense he must be an active member of the l...

Power. Every creature in the world wants it. Nothing likes to be picked on. Everything from plankton to humans wants power over its rivals in life. There is a saying that too much of a good thing can sometime be a bad thing. Too much power can sometimes be appalling. Another example is water, it is ...

CAUSES OF THE GREAT DEPRESSION 1929 is a year that most of our grandparents or great-grandparents remember, as it was a year when one of the most significant events occurred in the history of the United States and affected other nations globally. It was the year the Great Depression began. Pr...

Introduction The economic situation differs from country to country, caused by difference in population, geography, monetary system, political situation and a lot of other factors. But even within one country there are always a number of regions that differ from one another by their economic p...

For my book report I choose a book titled The End of Work by Jeremy Rifkin. It discusses the decline of the global labor force and the dawn of the Post-Market Era. Jeremy Rifkin is president of the Foundation on Economic Trends in Washington, D.C., and has published more than a dozen books on eco...

There is little doubt that the terror attacks of September 11, 2001 have had economic impact both in the United States and in the other industrialized nations of the globe. The question is, however, how much impact, and, if there has been significant impact, in what areas' More important...

1. Several of our commentators have suggested that the media engage in "self-censorship". What does this mean and how is it accomplished? Self-censorship is one of the least discussed, and most routine, media constraints in the United States. The mass media are able to numb us, in a sense, dispen...