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Can you explain the Paul Willis' take on the education in 'Learning to Labour'?

Paul Willis has published a book called 'Learning to Labour', where he discussed the anti-school subculture at schools in 1977. He did an experiment on 12 working class schoolboys from the Midlands to observ...
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Do minimum wages cause unemployment?

Yes, according to the standard model of the labour market, an introduction of a minimum wage above the market clearing wage rate will cause an excess of labour in the market. This model assumes conditions of...
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Explain the main points of the Design Argument for the existence of God.

The Design Argument for the existence of God suggests that, due to the unexplainable complexity of the world around us, there must have been an intelligent 'designer' who created it. The argument is well exp...
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Find the gradient of the tangent and the normal to the curve f(x)= 4x^3 - 7x - 10 at the point (2, 8)

y = 4x 3 - 7x -10The gradient of the function at any point can be found using its derivative:dy/dx = 12x 2 - 7The gradient of the function, m 1 , at (2,8) is equal to the gradient of the tangent at that poin...
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What is compound interest?

Interest is the return you get on savings or an investment. Normal interest is when you earn a fixed percentage amount per year on an initial amount. For example an interest rate of 5% on £100 would give you...
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