2008-2010 Honors Study Topic: The Paradox of Affluence: Choices, Challenges, and Consequences
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Mar 30th, 2006 • Category: Discussion Grid: Economics
- By what criteria do we determine the relative status of nations’ economic power?
- Why have societies justified the use of slavery as a means for acquiring wealth and power?
- How does controlling debt allow nations to access power over the assets of developing countries?
- How and why has the value of commodities changed over time? What commodities that were valuable in the past are no longer determinates of wealth?
- How and why was the American Medical Association able to enhance the economic power of physicians in the 20th century?
- Why were the twin towers of the World Trade Center powerful symbols of the economic power of the West?
- In what ways did the economic status of its residents have an impact on the devastation of New Orleans by Hurricane Katrina in 2005?
- Why has playing the stock market, despite heavy risks, held such appeal since the beginning of the 20th century?
