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  EXPANSIONISM / IMPERIALISM

I believe that an economy is healthy when it's expanding, creating lots of new jobs, and there's good public / private sector co-operation.  Investing in infrastructure and better access to information improves productivity and decision making. Investing in human skills leads to new ideas, new technologies--and new markets. The benefits of growth and free trade will overcome poverty. While environmental problems are formidable, government and corporate planners--backed by scientific and technological expertise--are up to the challenge. They can fine tune the economy and deal with these problems, no fundamental changes are needed.  (Note: Expansionism can bring (non-Marxist) imperialism: government / corporate extension of power / influence leading to domination of people and their dependent development.)

Related Words, Beliefs, Background -- 43 entries

More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #22A: Expansionism

Economic Growth  (from online encyclopedia)
Economic Growth: Introduction
Economic Growth Resources
Expansionism (from online encyclopedia--emphasis on territorial expansionism)
Capitalism (from online encyclopedia)
Corporate Social Responsibility (from online encyclopedia)
Economic Policy Institute
An Approach to Analyzing the Impacts of "Smart Growth" Upon Economic Development
The Politics of Economic Growth in Postwar America
The World is Flat, by Thomas Friedman ( NY Times' columnist's 2005 book on 21st century economic realities)
"Don't Ditch the GDP," by Justin Fox (article in Time April 21, 2008)
"Best Countries for Global Business," by Barbara Kiviat (article in Time November 26 2008)
The Crisis of Global Capitalism, by George Soros (excerpts from this book)
Economic Development, Technological Change, and Growth (many links from WebEc)
Economic Growth Center (3rd world economic development)
Journal of Economic Growth
The Ultimate Resource 2 by Julian L. Simon
American Entrepreneurs for Economic Growth
The Smart Growth Network  
quotes about growth and economic growth
quotes about economic matters

More to Explore -- Worldview Theme #22B: Imperialism

Multinational Corporation (from online encyclopedia)
Imperialism (from online encyclopedia)
Cultural Imperialism  (from online encyclopedia)
Expansionism (from online encyclopedia--emphasis on territorial expansionism)
In Defense of Global Capitalism, by Johan Nordberg (read excerpts of this 2003 book at Google Books)
Economic Globalization in Asia, by Manas Chatterji, Partha (read excerpts of 2005 book at Google Books)
In Praise of Cultural Imperialism, by David Rothkopf  (1997 article in Foreign Policy by former US Commerce Dept official)
Reconsidering Cultural Imperialism Theory, by Livingston White
Multinational Corporations: Myths and Facts, by Gary Quinlivan (in defense of multinational global activities)
Multinational Corporations: A Key to Global Poverty Reduction (from Global Envision)
Foreign Direct Investment and the Multinational Corporation
Foreign Direct Investment by Transnational Corporations (from Development Gateway website)
Do Multinational Corporations Hurt Poor Countries?, by J. Bhagwati  (basically no he concludes)
Trade: Key to Prosperity
Free Trade and Globalization
Development and Economic Freedom: Counter-Capitalism Inside the Anti-globalization Movement
Anti-Globalism = Anti-Americanism (from American Enterprise Online)
In Defense of Globalization, by J. Bhagwati
The Free Trade Future of the African Growth and Opportunity Act
Imperialism in Africa Readings
Justifying the Role of Imperialism in Africa (book & book review)
Third World Development: Foreign Aid or Free Trade, by John Majewski
Third World Economic Development, by Clive Crook
The White Man's Burden (from online encyclopedia re:1899 poem by Rudyard Kipling justifying British imperialism as noble)
The Neo-Conservative Agenda: Humanism vs. Imperialism by R. Tremblay
"The Imperialism of Good Intentions" by Richard Gwyn (July 12, 2008 article from Toronto Star
Cultural Imperialism in the Late 20th Century, by James Petras (from Global Policy Forum)
Imperial Ambitions, by Noam Chomsky (leftist perspective on US foreign policy, read at Google Books)
The Inheritance of Loss, by Kiran Desai (excerpts of 2006 novel about lingering effects of colonialism at Google Books)
Center for Global Justice
Multinational Corporations are Incompatible with Sustainable Development, by Stephen Viederman
Fight Imperialism, Stand Together (activist organization)
American Empire Project (publishes books such as Imperial Ambitions, by Noam Chomsky)
quotes related to imperialism

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