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Introduction The core tenant of rational choice that I want to test is; ‘have people well defined and stable preferences’. It is assumed that an individual’s preferences are transitive and well defined however through close examination this is not always the case. I aim on showing this by conducting a field experiment using a nudge…

“Why do bridges collapse?”, is a common question asked by most. As humans, we are more prone to think about what could go wrong rather than why something does not go wrong. Yet, at the same time, neither of these questions may even cross our mind. We walk and drive across bridges almost every day…

“Liberalism is a political-economic system, then, is defined by its emphasis on individual freedoms over collective equality and on the power of markets over states” (O’Neil, 2013, p.89). Liberalism assumes that individuals are best suited to take responsibility for their own behavior and well-being.  Adam Smith used “liberal” in a similar sense in The Wealth of…

Globalization is a growing interdependence of the world’s economies, culture, and populations brought about by cross-border trade in goods services, technology, and flow of investment, people and information. Countries have built an economic partnership to facilitate these movements over many centuries. Our world today is becoming much more globalized than it has been at any…

The Human Development Index is a measurement of life expectancy, education, and per capita income indicators, which are used to rank countries into four tiers of human development. A country scores a higher HDI when the lifespan is higher, the education level is higher, and the gross national income GNI per capita is higher. It…

Executive Summary This paper includes the effects of globalization in several aspects, including economic, political, cultural and social. This paper begins with a simple explanation of the workshop and how it was prepared. Followed by a workshop Insight that includes the most important positive and negative points of globalization within what was discussed in the…

The global financial markets relate to stocks, bonds, securities, debt, and many more. The fluctuations in the interest rate of debt and securities depend on the national interest rate of all countries. Changes in interest rates have a significant impact on foreign investment. High-interest rates have a stronger currency value than the country with lower…

My major is economic geography and it is a discipline that I have learned different aspects of geography. My major was Economic when I was in freshmen year and before I joined this major, all I knew about geography was the physical parameters of geography and I never thought economic and business could have relations…

The minimum wage should be raised to $15 per hour to help people get out of poverty, improve the economy, and lower the wage gap between the poor and middle income. A job should lift workers out of poverty, not keep them in it.”~ Sen. Bernie Sanders. Congress has raised the minimum wage 22 times…

Advise to Solve Poverty in Republic of Chittagong How to solve the Republic of Chittagong’s poverty problem. First of all, the prime minister, Dr. Amina Aboubakar especially requested to me about trying to solve woman, religion, ethnic, and young people poverty. Before starts to advising, to solve Chittagong’s poverty problem, we should know about the…