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Midterm Review
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International Studies
Undergraduate 2
10/24/2011

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Term
Globalization Five Parts
Definition
Technology, Education, Capital, Culture, Migration
Term
Motivations of Globalization
Definition
Trade and improvement of living standards
Term
Quantitative Easing
Definition

Government buys trasury bonds which gives banks more cash to lower interest rate, increasing investment and number of jobs.

 

-hoarding funds will cause unemployment to not budge.

Term
Deleverging
Definition
Getting rid of the debt.
Term
Bretton-Woods
Definition
Creation of the IMF (promotes financial stability), World Bank (fosters economic growth), and WTO (promotes free trade).
Term
Enemies of Globalization
Definition
labor unions, communists, socialists, extreme right, etc.
Term
Market Economy
Definition

Elements of an ideal market: information flowing smoothly, enforcement of contracts, promoting competition, property rights, human rights, correcting externalities.

 

 

creates inequality as a result but has an equality of opportunity.

Term
Glass-Steigel Act
Definition

Separation of investments and commercial banks.

Inflation can be used by debtors to borrow more.

Term
Dutch Disease
Definition

Unabated capitol flow causes an appreciation of currency which negatively affects exports (since no one can afford the product).

 

Solution: Sterilization

 

Dutch discovered oil and sold it off.

Term
Sterilization
Definition
Fixing interest rates and selling bonds to help deppreciate currency.
Term
Hamilton's Economic Plan
Definition

1. Service the debt: Absorb all the states debts and pay off in full.

2. Create Bank of United States to create credit and oversee the printing of money.

3. Taxation: protection of infant industries and taxation of alcohol.

Term
Jackson's Goals
Definition

1. Kill BUS II (LOL, DUMBASS)

- moves money to pet banks.

- people invest in west and cause real estate bubble (money supply increases 50% increasing speculation)

2. Pay off all the debt

Term
Species Circular
Definition
Started by Jackson so that people can only buy land with gold, ending the real estate bubble but bankrupting the banks and increasing the debts.
Term
Gresham's Law
Definition
Bad currency will drive out good currency as a result of species circulation.
Term
Northern Civil War
Definition

Borrow from rich via bonds.

Increase debt.

Increase money supply ->increase inflation.

Term
Southern Civil War
Definition

Increase taxes.

Increase debt (backed by cotton bonds)

Inflation at 700% due to money supply.

Term
10 points of the Washington Consensus
Definition
  1. Fiscal Discipline
  2. Reordering Govt Spending
  3. Tax Reform
  4. Liberalization of interest rates
  5. Competitive exchange rates
  6. Trade liberalization
  7. Liberalization of Foreign Direct Investment
  8. Privatization
  9. Deregulation
  10. Enforcement of property rights
Term
Additions to the Washington Consensus
Definition

Rule of Law: good laws and good enforcement

Good Institutions: Solid funding towards social programs.

Income and Wealth Distribution.

Term
3 Basis of Washington Consensus
Definition
MacroStability, Market Reliance, Institutional Approach.
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