Essays about: "Capital Accumulation"

Showing result 21 - 25 of 89 essays containing the words Capital Accumulation.

  1. 21. Testing the long-term sustainable development of a Central American country: The Genuine Savings of Costa Rica between 1890 and 2015

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Ekonomisk-historiska institutionen

    Author : Aurélie Pollak; [2021]
    Keywords : Genuine Savings; Weak Sustainability; Natural Capital; Development; Costa Rica; Business and Economics;

    Abstract : The purpose of this study is to test the sustainable development of Costa Rica between 1890 and 2015 based on Genuine Savings. The Genuine Savings estimations are composed of indicators on fixed capital, natural capital, and human capital. READ MORE

  3. 22. What Happened to Louisiana? A Case Study on the Economic Growth Effects of Hurricane Katrina

    University essay from Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för nationalekonomi; Handelshögskolan i Stockholm/Institutionen för finansiell ekonomi

    Author : Moa Belaieff Kronborg; John Wernsten; [2021]
    Keywords : Hurricane Katrina; Natural disasters; Economic growth; Transmission channels; Labour;

    Abstract : This paper investigates the short-run and long-run effects of Hurricane Katrina on state-level economic growth in Louisiana. To provide explanatory value for any findings, the paper additionally includes an analysis of Katrina's effects on possible transmission channels to economic growth, including residential population, labour, and physical capital. READ MORE

  4. 23. At the margins of the German energy transition: A multi-scalar analysis of tenant electricity in Berlin

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Institutionen för kulturgeografi och ekonomisk geografi

    Author : Jelte Burfeind; [2021]
    Keywords : Tenant electricity; Energy transition; Political economy; Energy geography; Solar power; Capital accumulation; Berlin; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : Tenant electricity is heralded as a model that could accelerate the urban energy transition in Germany. The hopes are especially high in the city-state of Berlin. In this thesis, I critically analyze why tenant electricity has not fulfilled these expectations. READ MORE

  5. 24. The Political Economy of Deforestation of the Northwestern Colombian Amazon

    University essay from Stockholms universitet/Institutionen för biologisk grundutbildning (BIG); Stockholms universitet/Stockholm Resilience Centre

    Author : Paula Andrea Sanchez Garcia; [2021]
    Keywords : Amazon; Colombia; power dynamics; political economy; hegemony;

    Abstract : The Amazon has experienced rapid forest loss in the past decades due to the growing colonization, infrastructure development and commercial agriculture expansion. Understanding the underlying social, political and economic drivers of deforestation is key to curb deforestation of the Amazon basin. READ MORE

  6. 25. On the Silk Road with Giovanni Arrighi

    University essay from Lunds universitet/Graduate School; Lunds universitet/Master of Science in Global Studies

    Author : Simon Frohlund; [2021]
    Keywords : World-systems analysis; Systemic cycles of accumulation; Hegemonic transitions; China; Scientific paradigms; Social Sciences;

    Abstract : This thesis explores contradictions, inadequacies, and competing formulations within Giovanni Arrighi’s theory of systemic cycles of accumulation (SCAs) as a Kuhnian scientific paradigm. This has been carried out through a comparative study on how the theory has been applied by scholars on the issue of the prospective hegemonic rise of China in the contemporary setting. READ MORE