Final Paper Outline
There will be one online class this semester. This gives you a chance to prepare a detailed outline of your final paper (see below) that will due during the week of finals. You should have a thesis statement for the paper and a 3-level outline prepared for each paragraph/argument/concept. You also need to include 3 sources you plan on using for your final paper. Include them on a bibliography page after the outline. Both MLA and APA are acceptable formats. The outline will be submitted on the day of what would have been the night of class that week.
I NEED AN OUTLINE ABOUT CZECH REPUBLIC ECONOMIC SYSTEM like this below example, from their history to their actual economic system
Example Outline – The US Economic System
I. Introduction
a. Thesis: US began with many advantages
i. Natural resources
ii. No class system left over from feudalism
iii. Founding fathers created a nation of self-governing citizens
II. Competitive Capitalism 1815-1896
a. Private enterprise
i. Most businesses were small and labor intensive
ii. Barriers to entry low
iii. Corporations began producing goods in 1830 but stayed small until the Civil War, government contracts allowed them to grow, begin rentseeking
b. Unorganized Labor
i. Poor working conditions
ii. Unions struggled to form
c. Culture
i. Individualistic culture; Social Darwinism
ii. Sense of community growing, “art of association,” religious revivals
d. Demise of Competitive Capitalism
i. Expansion of railroads meant a national market was about to appear allowing economies of scale
ii. Unregulated businesses competed ruthlessly; overproduction and debt financing led to repeated recessions – growing disfunction
III. Organized Capitalism 1897-1932
a. Trusts
i. Business tried to cooperate rather than compete to death
ii. Rockefeller; Carnegie; J.P. Morgan
b. Organized Labor
i. Unions continue to attempt to protect workers
ii. Little power; no government protections; immigration
c. Expanding government
i. Rise of progressivism
ii. WWI required business-government partnership
d. Demise of Organized Capitalism
i. Loose monetary policy of 1920s
ii. The Great Depression
IV. Regulated Capitalism 1933-1979
a. The New Deal
i. Belief the depression was caused by excessive competition
ii. And imbalance of power between large corporations and labor
b. Keynesian Economics
i. High wages were previously seen as threat to profitability but now seen as the source of consumption to keep the economy moving
ii. WWII required increased government spending, vindication
c. Bretton Woods
i. International agreement on currencies
ii. Increased international trade
d. Culture
i. From war to corporations, people learned to function within large groups
ii. Women in the workforce
iii. Consumerism
e. Demise of Regulated Capitalism
i. Too much government spending, broke Bretton Woods, led to inflation
ii. Increasing foreign competition
iii. Stagflation could not be handled by Keynesian policies
V. Neoliberal Capitalism 1980-2008
a. Desire to minimize government’s role, seen as the primary cause of regulated capitalism’s problems
i. Monetarism
ii. New Classical Economics
iii. Supply Side Economics
b. Reducing government’s role
i. Deregulation
ii. Privatization
iii. Stronger business, weaker labor
c. Demise of Neoliberal Capitalism
i. Collapse of Communism
ii. Globalization
iii. Deregulation of financial markets
iv. “Victim of its own success” – gains from increased productivity accrued by owners of capital, income inequality growing
VI. Conclusion
a. Any indications of a new direction
i. Obama’s election
ii. Party split: Republicans still neoliberal
b. Comparing the systems
i. Neoliberalism’s vision of resurrecting competitive capitalism failed because it ignored the concentration of power in the economy
ii. Institutions of regulated capitalism were removed by neoliberal
iii. Many similarities between organized and neoliberal
