Case Analysis: Unocal in Burma Union Oil Company of California‚ Unocal‚ progressed into a full-service oil business after being founded more than 100 years ago to develop oil fields in California. Its services included extraction‚ refining‚ distribution‚ marketing and retail. Because of the depletion of oil fields in the United States‚ Unocal turned to foreign investments with a strategy to market its one-stop shopping business to governments. A major international project of interest was the
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SECTION 1: POLITICAL ORGANISATION -Human Nature/State of Nature - THOMAS HOBBES has a pessimistic view of human nature; “the war of all against all.” * In order to achieve felicity‚ one must become powerful. Power is the means to secure goods now and in the future. Since we will all‚ forever be wanting goods‚ the quest for power is a competitive one. * All humans‚ by virtue of their individual strengths and weaknesses have a more or less equal ability to kill each other. * This dismal
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Justine Lacroix Fifth Re-‐Bel Event 9th June 2011 Should the obligation to vote be abolished? ………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………………… Is Compulsory Voting Justified in a Liberal Democracy ? The normative debate on compulsory voting has recently known a revival in political theory1. One of
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Dilemma Faced In this case study‚ Gloria Londono‚ a health care entrepreneur and owner of several eldercare centres‚ Calidad de Vida as it is called‚ has a cloud of dilemmas hovering on her mind. Victor Serna‚ an angel investor‚ has offered her three million euros as an investment in her company. However‚ Victor does not prefer franchising and had informed Gloria that he would rather she open up new centres with direct ownership and control. On top of that‚ he is demanding for a twenty-five per
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A key thinker in political economy: Adam Smith and his Invisible Hand theory Introduction Adam Smith’s contributions to the world in generally and to the economic in specifically cannot be denied. According to Brandon (2011)‚ people‚ especially economic students likely recognize him from “the invisible hand metaphor‚ division of labor examples‚ or the promotion of earning honest profit”. These ideologies have been discussed for over 200 years and they are often accepted as the straightforward
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Management 300 Chapter 1 Vocabulary Impartial – must regard the interests of everyone‚ including ourselves‚ as equally worthy of consideration and give all interest equal weight in deciding what to do Organizations – a hierarchical system of functionally defined positions designed to achieve some goal or set of goals Businesses – economic organizations that operate within a framework of law Utility – demand for the output is determined by preferences of individual consumers who select
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is equality? Equality is a state in which every living person is given the same number of opportunity to vent out their ability to its fullest‚ regardless of gender‚ race‚ wealth‚ religion‚ and so on. However‚ in the world of capitalism and libertarianism‚ people cannot be equal. Each person is born with different amounts of wealth and contrary aspects both physically and mentally‚ no matter how much people fight for equal human rights. There is an increase in reported racial discrimination cases
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‘Is the contemporary claim by the police that politics should be kept out of policing fair or disingenuous?’ This essay will critically assess the requirement for politics in the police and whether or not it acts as an interference which affects policing or as an essential tool in protecting individual’s human rights‚ maintaining law and order‚ meeting crime targets and improving society. It will seek to evaluate the strengths and weaknesses of political policing and look to examples of this
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Equal distribution of all benefits & burdens on peoples b. Equal distribution of all benefits on people c. Equal distribution of all burdens on people d. None of the above 3. Justice of blaming or punishing persons for doing wrong is a. Libertarianism b. Compensatory justice c. Retributive justice d. Socialism 4. Markets in which each individual is able to voluntarily exchange goods with others a. Restricted Markets b. Free Markets c. Open Markets d. None of the above 5. The Marxist
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A widely debated topic in current political discussions is the issue of access to basic healthcare. Specifically‚ Liberal Egalitarians and Libertarians have immensely varying view points on the issue. Healthcare is a moral right. To deny humans access to lifesaving measures and preventative care is inhumane and is an archaic and obsolete way of thinking. The current state of healthcare in the United States solely caters to the wealthy and those who have obscenely expensive private insurance policies
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