Summary: Culture And Business In Eu And Other Western Countries
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1 Introduction
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What lies ahead in the future? (4)
- corporate social responsibility
- sustainable innovation
- minorities, migrants, civil rights and their impact on the economy
- geopolitics and superpowers -
What is Boserup's hypothesis?
Gender roles may originate in the form of agriculture traditionally practiced -
2 Origins of the EU
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What is the cobra effect?
Parents who were too late to pick up their children from daycare were fined. In order to prevent this from happening, but instead more parents showed up late after the fine. Because now they were feeling like they compensated for the inconvenience caused by them -
Why did protestant areas developed faster in the 19th century?
Protestantism: individual reading of the bible
- higher literacy
- higher human capital
- higher economic development -
What happened in 1517?
Reformation lead to protestantism -
What are 3 examples of where history has influenced modern day habits or behaviours?
- past agricultural types (crops) determined current social norms on gender
- WW1 casualties can explain female labor force participation today
- Relation between Spanish colonizers and USA's entrepreneurs (??) -
What is the goal of alliances?
Prevent any country from growing too much and becoming too powerful -
What was the goal of the Vienna Congress?
Provide a long-term peace plan for Europe -
What actually happened during the Congress of Vienna? (3)
- territorial redistribution --> balancing powers- France lost all its recent conquests while Prussia, Austria and Russia made major territorial gains
- no talks of economic cooperation
- conservative: no social or national agenda -
What were the short term effects of war casualty rates and men who died during the war? (2)
- increased female labor force participation due to thin marriage market
- widows struggling to survive
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