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PO230 Essay - IMF and Global Financial Crisis
This essay critically examines the dynamics of IMF involvement in the 2007-8 financial crisis, exploring the ramifications for its mandate and legitimacy. The argument takes a constructivist perspective, concluding that the crisis ‘resuscitated’ the IMF’s fortunes, prompting a tentative endorsement of monetarist, fiscally active Keynesian economics. Erroneous predictions that the crisis would originate outside the US further weakened the IMF’s damaged reputation, although to some extent ...
- Essay
- • 10 pages •
This essay critically examines the dynamics of IMF involvement in the 2007-8 financial crisis, exploring the ramifications for its mandate and legitimacy. The argument takes a constructivist perspective, concluding that the crisis ‘resuscitated’ the IMF’s fortunes, prompting a tentative endorsement of monetarist, fiscally active Keynesian economics. Erroneous predictions that the crisis would originate outside the US further weakened the IMF’s damaged reputation, although to some extent ...
EC125 Data Analysis - Assignment 2
This analysis uses cross-sectional data from the 2009 British Social Attitudes (BSA) Survey. The question: how many hours/week do you spend using the Internet? 3421 Britons were asked, of which 2380 answered (dropping observations that consisted of skipping the question, not knowing/refusing or not using the internet). It examines how internet usage varies with other aspects of professional and personal life. Core socioeconomic indicators are used: employment type, income, residence, age and ge...
- Presentation
- • 13 pages •
This analysis uses cross-sectional data from the 2009 British Social Attitudes (BSA) Survey. The question: how many hours/week do you spend using the Internet? 3421 Britons were asked, of which 2380 answered (dropping observations that consisted of skipping the question, not knowing/refusing or not using the internet). It examines how internet usage varies with other aspects of professional and personal life. Core socioeconomic indicators are used: employment type, income, residence, age and ge...
PO131 Essay - Development and Economic Growth
This essay presents and analyses frameworks of development, subsequently assessing the relative importance of economic growth within said frameworks as an indicator of development. The inconsistencies in liberal modernisation theory and the limitations of dependency theory are explored and other key aspects of development considered. Although economic growth forms the foundation for development, there is at most a weak link between the two when considered individually. Approaches to development ...
- Essay
- • 8 pages •
This essay presents and analyses frameworks of development, subsequently assessing the relative importance of economic growth within said frameworks as an indicator of development. The inconsistencies in liberal modernisation theory and the limitations of dependency theory are explored and other key aspects of development considered. Although economic growth forms the foundation for development, there is at most a weak link between the two when considered individually. Approaches to development ...
PO131 Essay - Power in International Relations
This essay aims to identify and critically assess the most convincing and relevant currents in international relations theory related to power, qualifying them through examination of modern world power systems and questioning the ultimate feasibility of their claims. Key actors in international power are brought into the discussion to illustrate theoretical perspectives in empirical terms.
- Essay
- • 9 pages •
This essay aims to identify and critically assess the most convincing and relevant currents in international relations theory related to power, qualifying them through examination of modern world power systems and questioning the ultimate feasibility of their claims. Key actors in international power are brought into the discussion to illustrate theoretical perspectives in empirical terms.
PO230 States and Markets - Full Lecture Notes
Full lecture notes for the module PO230 States and Markets. These helped achieve an overall module mark of 80. Topics covered: - Classical political economy (Smith, Ricardo) - Radical political economy (Marx) - Economic nationalism (List) - Neoclassical political economy - Polanyi - Keynesian political economy - The New Right (Friedman, Hayek) - Embedded liberalism and Bretton Woods - National models of capitalism - The offshore system
- Class notes
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Full lecture notes for the module PO230 States and Markets. These helped achieve an overall module mark of 80. Topics covered: - Classical political economy (Smith, Ricardo) - Radical political economy (Marx) - Economic nationalism (List) - Neoclassical political economy - Polanyi - Keynesian political economy - The New Right (Friedman, Hayek) - Embedded liberalism and Bretton Woods - National models of capitalism - The offshore system
EC230 Money and Banking Full Lecture Notes
Full lecture notes for EC230 Money and Banking. Topics covered: - The financial system - Payment systems and banks - Balance sheets - Monetary base - Leverage - Bonds - Interest rates - Equities - Derivatives - Inflation - The Romer Model - Hyperinflation - Business Cycles - Monetary Policy - Exchange rates - The Euro
- Class notes
- • 35 pages •
Full lecture notes for EC230 Money and Banking. Topics covered: - The financial system - Payment systems and banks - Balance sheets - Monetary base - Leverage - Bonds - Interest rates - Equities - Derivatives - Inflation - The Romer Model - Hyperinflation - Business Cycles - Monetary Policy - Exchange rates - The Euro
EC230 Money and Banking Full Revision Notes
Full revision notes for EC230 Money and Banking. Topics covered: - The financial system - Payment systems and banks - Balance sheets - Monetary base - Leverage - Bonds - Interest rates - Equities - Derivatives - Inflation - The Romer Model - Hyperinflation - Business Cycles - Monetary Policy - Exchange rates - The Euro
- Class notes
- • 15 pages •
Full revision notes for EC230 Money and Banking. Topics covered: - The financial system - Payment systems and banks - Balance sheets - Monetary base - Leverage - Bonds - Interest rates - Equities - Derivatives - Inflation - The Romer Model - Hyperinflation - Business Cycles - Monetary Policy - Exchange rates - The Euro
PO107 Introduction to Politics Full Notes
Full lecture notes for the Introduction to Politics course. Covers conceptualisation and study of politics, power, the state, democracy, legitimacy, justice, theories of rights, political representation and participation, political parties, media and pressure groups, bureaucracy, national assemblies and executives, political ideology (including conservatism, liberalism, Marxism, nationalism, feminism, socialism), globalisation, and 21st century politics.
- Class notes
- • 45 pages •
Full lecture notes for the Introduction to Politics course. Covers conceptualisation and study of politics, power, the state, democracy, legitimacy, justice, theories of rights, political representation and participation, political parties, media and pressure groups, bureaucracy, national assemblies and executives, political ideology (including conservatism, liberalism, Marxism, nationalism, feminism, socialism), globalisation, and 21st century politics.
PH133 Introduction to Philosophy
A collection of lecture notes from the Intro to Philosophy course covering Plato, Nietzsche, Kant, Mill, Bentham and Hobbes. Primary topics: political philosophy, aesthetics, utilitarianism, rationalism and genealogy.
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- PH133 Notes - Hobbes and Leviathan • Class notes
- PH133 Notes - Mill, Bentham and Utilitarianism • Class notes
- PH133 Notes - Kant and Aesthetics • Class notes
- PH133 Notes - Nietzsche and Beyond Good and Evil • Class notes
- PH133 Notes - Plato and The Republic • Class notes
A collection of lecture notes from the Intro to Philosophy course covering Plato, Nietzsche, Kant, Mill, Bentham and Hobbes. Primary topics: political philosophy, aesthetics, utilitarianism, rationalism and genealogy.
PH133 Notes - Plato and The Republic
An introduction to Plato and the arguments deployed in The Republic. Discusses the views of the main characters, the sophists. Applies Platonic thought to political organisation, hierarchy, gender, the family, class and education. Looks at Plato's conception of justice and the respective roles of rulers, auxiliaries and workers. Looks at the theory of forms as applied to political philosophy.
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- Class notes
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An introduction to Plato and the arguments deployed in The Republic. Discusses the views of the main characters, the sophists. Applies Platonic thought to political organisation, hierarchy, gender, the family, class and education. Looks at Plato's conception of justice and the respective roles of rulers, auxiliaries and workers. Looks at the theory of forms as applied to political philosophy.
EC230 Money and Banking Full Revision Notes
PO230 States and Markets - Full Lecture Notes
EC230 Money and Banking Full Revision Notes
PO230 States and Markets - Full Lecture Notes
IB History HL Internal Assessment (23/25) - Spanish Civil War