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Imran Naqvi
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Ideologies
What is meant by ideology? How does a persons ideology affect his or her behavior? Examples? What is an individualistic ideology?
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Socioeconomic Systems
What is a command system? In what ways are businesses examples of command systems? What is a market system? What are the 2 key components of a market system?
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rights?
Whats Lockes argument for the existence of
the 2 natural rights? Why did humans invent the institution called government?
What is the proper role of government? What should government not do?
United States? What are the 4 major criticisms of Lockes defense of free markets? Considering the advocates and critics of Locke, under what circumstances is government regulation of business justified?
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Darwinists argue?
What are the criticisms of Social Darwinism?
Marxist Criticisms
What did Karl Marx witness that influenced
his thinking about free market capitalism? According to Marx, what are the 2 sources of income in a capitalist system?
Why do workers have to sell their labor in order
Marxist Criticisms
How does Marx believe that humans should
live? According to Marx, what are the 4 forms of alienation that are produced by capitalism? According to Marx, what is the basis of the inequities produced by capitalism?
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Marxist Criticisms
In Marxs theory, what is meant by the
economic substructure?
What is meant by the forces of production? What is meant by the relations of production? What are the 2 main types of relations of production?
How did this work in feudal societies? How does this work in capitalist societies? How do the relations of production create social classes?
social superstructure?
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Marxist Criticisms
According to Marx, what is the actual
function of government? According to Marx, what are the 2 basic features of capitalism
How do these features harm the working class
(the proletariat)?
Locke and Smith, Marx, and the critics of Marx, what is the proper role of government in a capitalist system?
Under what conditions is government
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physical property? What are the arguments in favor of treating intellectual property the same as any private property? What are the arguments in favor of the collective (or common) ownership of intellectual property?
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advocate of the ideas of John Locke analyze peer-to-peer systems (such as Napster, Gnutella, and Kazaa)? How would the modern-day, hardcore advocate of the ideas of Adam Smith analyze peer-to-peer systems? How would the modern-day, hardcore advocate of the ideas of Karl Marx analyze peer-to-peer systems?
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