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1 day ago · GIS Evening Report, Friday, April 26th, 2024
1 day ago · In the 1776 book The Wealth of Nations, Adam Smith argued for the abolition of slavery on economic grounds. Smith pointed out that slavery incurred security, housing, and food costs that the use of free labour would not, and opined that free workers would be more productive because they would have personal economic incentives to work harder.
5 hours ago · Historians analyze the causes of immigration in terms of push factors (pushing people out of the homeland) and pull factors (pulling them to America). The push factors included economic dislocation, shortages of land, and antisemitism. Pull factors were the economic opportunity of good inexpensive farmland or jobs in factories, mills and mines.
- 17%
- 15%
1 day ago · Jefferson purchased some slaves in order to reunite their families. He sold approximately 110 people for economic reasons, primarily slaves from his outlying farms. In 1784, when the number of slaves he owned likely was approximately 200, he began to divest himself of many slaves, and by 1794 he had divested himself of 161 individuals.
- John Adams
- John Adams
1 day ago · Central America is currently undergoing a process of political, economic and cultural transformation that started in 1907 with the creation of the Central American Court of Justice. In 1951 the integration process continued with the signature of the San Salvador Treaty, which created the ODECA, the Organization of Central American States.
- 523,780 km² (202,230 sq mi)
- 52,176,283 (2022)
- Central American
- $4,783 (exchange rate) (2013), $8,698 (PPP) (2013)
5 hours ago · Yugoslav Wars; Part of the post–Cold War era: Clockwise from top-left: Officers of the Slovenian National Police Force escort captured soldiers of the Yugoslav People's Army back to their unit during the Slovenian War of Independence; a destroyed M-84 during the Battle of Vukovar; anti-tank missile installations of the Serbia-controlled Yugoslav People's Army during the siege of Dubrovnik ...
5 hours ago · Experts say the CCP’s dumping of solar panels, EVs, and lithium batteries is posing a great threat to the global economy.The Chinese communist regime has deleted overproduction information on China’s new energy cars from its official website. It comes as both the United States and the European Union have raised serious concerns over China’s industrial overcapacity and dumping of goods in ...
