Essays about: "Alexander Easton"

Found 3 essays containing the words Alexander Easton.

  1. 1. Crisis or Consolidation? Predicting Bank Distress in Sweden 1917-1923

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Alexander Easton; [2021]
    Keywords : Financial Crises; Commercial Banking; Financial Instability; Bank Distress.; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : Crises are inherently connected to the strengths and functions of the financial system in creating and expanding credit (Broberg and Ögren, 2019). They are as much products of the innovation and expansion which precede them as they are a cause of the realignment and adjustment that follows them. READ MORE

  2. 2. British Financial Imperialism and the Colonial Special Economic Zone. An analysis of the influence of foreign investment on local economic policies in the Cape Colony.

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Alexander Easton; [2020]
    Keywords : Financial Imperialism; Cape Colony; Kimberley; Diamond Mining; Special Economic Zone.; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : This thesis aims to address the limited spatial focus of existing critiques of British financial imperialism, by analysing the economic relationship between Britain and the Cape Colony,and integrating discreet sets of literature related to British imperialism and the economic history of the Cape Colony. Specifically, focus has centred on the diamond mining industry in Kimberley, which produced some of the highest returns on investment of any mining industry in Africa. READ MORE

  3. 3. Patrick Bateman, Violence and Consumption: Bret Easton Ellis’s American Psycho

    University essay from Institutionen för kultur och kommunikation

    Author : Alexander Nystrand; [2010]
    Keywords : Marxism; Consumption; Consumerism; Homogeneity; Commodities; Use-value; Exchange-value; Sign-exchange value; Socioeconomic; Class-consciousness; Commodity fetishism.;

    Abstract : This essay investigates how Bret Easton Ellis portrays Patrick Bateman as a projection of American society, in order to criticize consumerism and capitalism in his novel American Psycho. By applying Marxist theory, this essay examines Bateman's consumption patterns and class-consciousness using key Marxist terms. READ MORE