Economy and World War 2

Economy and World War 2

Introduction

After World War 2, and the difficulties of the interwar period, the market economy reached a high peak having characteristic basic strokes. During this stage we can distinguish two distinct moments. Technical innovations and automation-such innovations are occurring constantly and affecting everyone, but where it is most noticeable is in the field of computing. Another sector which also notes the development of information technology is in factories, with the introduction of robots in assembly lines, leading to a high number of unemployed and a greater number of productions. Oil as basic raw material-with the progressive use of oil and natural gas are beginning to make hydroelectric dams. At first the U.S. was the only country that had oil supply, but little by little, and above all, from the 50s we add other countries to the Middle East highlight cave. Already in 1960 the producing countries, the majority of them Arabs, organized a poster: Organization of Petroleum Exporting Countries (OPEC) in order to control including marketing (Stanley, 2001).

Discussion

Generalization of production and mass-consumption due to the high number of employment, assembly, etc , Begin to expand the department stores or shopping malls and credit cards arise leading to easy access to products manufactured. Due to many factors activated population was gradually introducing women into the workforce and services or tertiary sector, began to increase gradually, leading to a decrease in the other two sectors. On the other hand also enhances the rural exodus and migration in search of jobs in cities and in the countryside. Accentuation of consolidation and dominance of multinational-corporate concentration is formed by companies that manufacture all kinds of products for all sectors and are also the companies that control the market. The only drawback of the cluster is that almost all companies are American. State Intervention and the welfare state-from this point we must mention the social market economy, which is none other than a market economy with free competition control by the State, based on the ideas of Keynes and influenced by the thinking socialist. And on the other hand we must emphasize the welfare state, since it is the State itself that covers some of the social services (Stanley, 2001).

The United States emerged from World War II as the only major economy that has not had its industry devastated by bombs. An oversized industrial park by the war, a global economy in tatters and thousands of soldiers coming home. What to do to not go back to the situation of recession before the war, when hordes of unemployed roamed in search of work and food? The idea, apparently genial, came from a American consultant specializing in retail, Victor Lebow, who saw in accelerating cycle of production and consumption to out of the impasse: Our enormously productive economy requires that we make consumption the our way of life, that we convert the buying and use of goods into rituals that we seek our spiritual satisfaction and our ego consumption ...