World War II and Black Economic Progress

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Andreas Ferrara
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
World War ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Black Economic

Conclusion

2020 ◽  
pp. 268-278
Author(s):  
Robert L. Tignor
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
London School ◽  
Growing Up ◽  
Racial Justice ◽  
World War ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Standards Of Living ◽  
Racial Injustice ◽  
Critical Issues ◽  
London School Of Economics

This concluding chapter reflects on W. Arthur Lewis's death on June 15, 1991, and his legacy. Since his days growing up on the island of St. Lucia and studying at the London School of Economics, he had focused his writings, research, teaching, and public service on three critical issues: racial justice, end of empire, and improved standards of living for the less well off. The instrumentality to accomplish these goals became the field of economics, in large part, as he so often reminded people, because he was unable to pursue what had once seemed to him more attractive occupations. Lewis would never have suggested that his life should be measured by the successes that he had in advancing these goals, but there is much to be said for concluding this study by considering the methods that Lewis favored and the achievements that he realized in the three arenas that he held so high: eradicating racial injustice, bringing empires to a close, and promoting worldwide economic progress. Ultimately, development economics was the academic interest in which Lewis made his most lasting contributions, and it was as a development economist that he came to prominence after World War II.

The Economic Progress of American Jewry: From Eighteenth-Century Merchants to Twenty-First-Century Professionals

2010 ◽  
pp. 624-645 ◽  
Author(s):  
Barry R. Chiswick
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Jewish People ◽  
The United States ◽  
American Jews ◽  
Religious Groups ◽  
World War ◽  
Employment Practices ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
American Jewry ◽  
Before And After

This article focuses on the economic progress of American Jewry. The American Jewish community has experienced a remarkable economic advancement from the nineteenth century to the present, both in absolute terms and relative to the non-Jewish population of the United States. It is an achievement that is unprecedented in terms of the various racial, ethnic, and religious groups that compromise the American population. The article examines the economic progress of American Jews with the help of quantitative data. It then traces the condition of the Jews in the colonial period to position of the Jews in Eastern Europe including Germany. The article further traces the occupation of Jewish people before and after the Second World War. With the end of World War II there was a change in attitudes toward anti-Semitic employment practices. One of the sectors was in higher education. A discussion on wealth acquired by Jewish people concludes this article.

scholarly journals The Force of American Modernity: World War II and the Birth of a Soft Power Superpower

2018 ◽  
Vol 6 (1) ◽  
pp. 1-17
Author(s):  
David W. Ellwood
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Soft Power ◽  
World View ◽  
Political Conflict ◽  
Marshall Plan ◽  
World War ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
American Capitalism ◽  
The Us ◽  
Wide Debate

As the result of a wide debate in the US during WWII on the causes of that war, the American governing class decided that the best way to avoid yet another conflict was to export the American understanding of the link between economic progress under capitalism and the survival of liberal democracy. The Marshall Plan was the fullest expression of this world-view, launching the era of productivity and growth in Europe. But this project, renewed ideologically in the era of ‘globalisation’, began to meet increased resistance by the 1990s, as societies everywhere looked at its effects on their traditional conceptions of modernity, sovereignty and identity. While American capitalism continued to propose innovations large and small, in Europe and elsewhere their disruptive effects could set off intense political conflict. The classic example is the Uber car-sharing company.

Economic Progress in Southeast Asia

1963 ◽  
Vol 23 (1) ◽  
pp. 69-92 ◽  
Author(s):  
Douglas S. Paauw
Keyword(s):  
World War Ii ◽  
Southeast Asia ◽  
Rapid Growth ◽  
Real Income ◽  
The Philippines ◽  
Southeast Asian ◽  
Viet Nam ◽  
World War ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Per Capita

Since the end of World War II, Southeast Asian economies have grown at widely diverging rates. Consistent and relatively rapid growth has occurred only in the Philippines; in that country rehabilitation from World War II was completed relatively early and the economy has gone on to provide gains in per capita real income, though at a falling rate. In Thailand and Malaya, rehabilitation and growth have occurred, but progress has been unsteady. In Burma, Indonesia, and the Indo-Chinese countries of Laos, Cambodia, and Viet Nam progress has taken die form primarily of restoring prewar levels of per capita production; it is unlikely that gains above prewar levels have been achieved.

Order or Movement?: The Literature of Political Development as Ideology

1973 ◽  
Vol 26 (1) ◽  
pp. 139-154 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mark Kesselman
Keyword(s):  
United States ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Cold War ◽  
Political Development ◽  
Political Stability ◽  
The United States ◽  
World War ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
The Third World ◽  
The Cold War

The term “political development” originated during the cold war. After World War II, the prevalent attitude in the United States toward the Third World resembled that toward Europe: Unless economic progress and political stability were encouraged by the United States, these areas would turn Communist. Underlying foreign aid was the sober calculation that communism would lose its appeal once men's bellies were full. Robert Packenham reports that when AID officials were asked in the mid-sixties how they viewed development, “one of the most common responses was, in effect, that political development is anti-Communist, pro-American political stability.”

The Scourge of Modern Militarism

Worldview ◽  
1978 ◽  
Vol 21 (7-8) ◽  
pp. 37-41
Author(s):  
Michael T. Klare
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Nuclear Weapons ◽  
Gross National Product ◽  
Third Reich ◽  
World War ◽  
Human Species ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
The World ◽  
Made In

AbstractMilitarism. The word has a faintly anachronistic ring. It conjures up images of Prussia in Bismarck's day, or perhaps Hitler's Third Reich. It suggests a static, rigid society in which a traditional officer caste dominates an authoritarian and hierarchical state system. But while this image is still valid for many societies today, it fails to convey the particular virulence and dynamism of modern militarism—a scourge that threatens to obliterate all the gains made in the areas of human rights, democratic government, and economic progress throughout the world since the end of World War II. If not checked soon, this scourge will almost certainly trigger a global conflagration that could destroy the human species.Consider: World military spending in 1977 reached the record level of $400 billion—more than the combined gross national product of the world's hundred poorest nations. Most of these funds, of course, were expended by the two superpowers, which now have sufficient nuclear weapons to destroy each other several times over.

Making Vitasoy “Local” in Post-World War II Hong Kong: Traditionalizing Modernity, Engineering Progress, Nurturing Aspirations

2021 ◽  
Vol 95 (2) ◽  
pp. 275-300
Author(s):  
John D. Wong
Keyword(s):  
Hong Kong ◽  
World War Ii ◽  
Emerging Market ◽  
Food Product ◽  
World War ◽  
Post World War Ii ◽  
Economic Progress ◽  
Household Food ◽  
Nutritional Science ◽  
The City

Now considered a quintessential Hong Kong household food product, Vitasoy won the approval of local consumers only in the post–World War II period as its producer capitalized on the discourse of modern nutritional science, leveraged technological breakthroughs, and positioned the soy beverage to respond to a growing clientele experiencing economic growth and lifestyle transformation. In the emerging market and sociocultural conditions of postwar Hong Kong, Vitasoy's producer created a local beverage that articulated for the city a modernity that originated in a Chinese national discourse but then blossomed into a celebration of the lifestyle that economic progress enabled.

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