Category: Economic Growth

According to economic theory, economic growth in a given country is possible in only three cases. The first is when investment flows: when capital accumulation outstrips the growth of the labor force, so the share of workers is more capital. This growth is named after the American economist Robert Solow – ‘Solovian’ growth. The second…

Equality is the state of every individual being equal, especially in status, rights or opportunities. However, up till the 21st century, gender equality is still a prevalent issue. Men and women across the globe do not enjoy equal privileges. Gender equality is the equal right of both men and women to have access to opportunities…

Globalization, a significant trademark inside the contemporary financial condition, has brought about critical changes to singular countries regarding monetary improvement procedures embraced by national governments. The term globalization alludes to the joining of nearby and worldwide economies into a comprehensively brought together political, monetary, and social request, and is anything but a particular wonder, notwithstanding,…

Throughout history there have been many different eras that had affected Americans and the world in many different ways. These eras had affected us in either a good way or a bad way. One era that had affected us tremendously was the Gilded age. The Gilded Age in United States history is an era that…

Late 19th century is known as the Gilded Age, started from 1965 to 1900. It was marked by the greed and vulgarity, as well as the enormous consumption of the newly rich who flaunted their personal wealth. Meanwhile, the average Americans and recent immigrants still lived a frugal life. This was the time when the…

The Gilded Age is the era Mark Twain describes as being where wealthy people acquired their wealth through unethical activities and were said to be role models and ideal people. Wealth was all people noticed during this era. All of the unethical things they did to get their money often went unnoticed. The Gilded Age…

The Gilded Age (the Late 1860s – 1890s) was the time period following the Civil War that brought in much-needed Industrial, populous, and economic growth for the United States of America. Although this period garnered essential evolution, this state-wide technical progression brought upon political, economic, and social issues with it. Problems of the era included…

Industrialization has brought different changes to our way of life. Industrialization is defined as a development of industries in a country or region on a wide scale. I define it as the new changes making our world into what it is today. The Gilded Age occurred from 1870s to the 1900s and it was during…

The book The Incorporation of America by Alan Trachtenberg depicts that the upcomming of industrial companies, companies and corporatization, the powers that existed at the time controlled the structure of the corporate world that was being developed during the Gilded Age and basically completely rebuilt and designed American culture in ways that were completely opposite…

Author Burton W. Folsom Jr.s book The Myth of the Robber Barons; A New Look at the Rise of Big Business in America is an excellent example of a book which presents an evidence-based argument. He divides the book into seven chapters based on the most prominent business Moghuls during their era. The author uses…