Their model for political organization, as well as the paved roads for which they argued, facilitated the growth of the automobile.

It has been argued that high rates of education are essential for countries to be able to achieve high levels of economic growth.

It is argued that these differences can come by human variability, such as by growth in theological knowledge over time, different occasion for writing, as well as use of different secretaries ( or amanuensis ) in composition.

Some economists, like Milton Friedman and other Laissez-faire economists have argued that there is a direct relationship between economic growth and economic freedom, and studies suggest this is true.

Assuming the stones were used for chiefly houses, it can be argued that Chamorro society was becoming more stratified, either from population growth or the arrival of new people.

Lambsdorff argued that the result would be economic growth, which would itself solve both the social problems and the financial problems.

In 1968, Ehrlich published The Population Bomb, which argued that mankind was facing a demographic catastrophe with the rate of population growth quickly outstripping growth in the supply of food and resources.

Friedman argued for stronger basic legal ( constitutional ) protection of economic rights and freedoms in order to further promote industrial-commercial growth and prosperity and buttress democracy and freedom and the rule of law generally in society.

Machiavelli argued against seeing mere peace and economic growth as worthy aims on their own, if they would lead to what Mansfield calls the " taming of the prince.

The Omphalos hypothesis was named after the title of an 1857 book, Omphalos by Philip Henry Gosse, in which Gosse argued that in order for the world to be " functional ", God must have created the Earth with mountains and canyons, trees with growth rings, Adam and Eve with hair, fingernails, and navels ( omphalos is Greek for " navel "), and that therefore no evidence that we can see of the presumed age of the earth and universe can be taken as reliable.

One popular model, known as Rostow's stages of growth, argued that development took place in 5 stages ( Traditional Society ; Pre-conditions for Take-off ; Take-off ; Drive to Maturity ; Age of High Mass Consumption ).

Leo Strauss ( in The City and Man ) locates the problem in the nature of Athenian democracy itself, about which, he argued, Thucydides had a deeply ambivalent view: on one hand, Thucydides ' own " wisdom was made possible " by the Periclean democracy, which had the effect of liberating individual daring, enterprise and questioning spirit, but this same liberation, by permitting the growth of limitless political ambition, led to imperialism and, eventually, civic strife.

Wentworth argued that a state university was imperative for the growth of a society aspiring towards self-government, and that it would provide the opportunity for ' the child of every class, to become great and useful in the destinies of his country '.

At the time, some believed this lack of growth outside Britain was due to the ‘ Malthusian trap ’ theory ; Thomas Malthus argued before the start of the Industrial Revolution that it was the tendency of a population to expand beyond the limits of resource sustainability, at which point a crisis ( such as famine, war, or epidemic ) would reduce the population to a sustainable size.

Starting with work in the Neo-Piagetian tradition, theorists have argued that the growth of working-memory capacity is a major driving force of cognitive development.

He and other monetarists have consequently argued that Keynesian economics can result in stagflation, the combination of low growth and high inflation that developed economies suffered in the early 1970s.

Jung argued that the stages of the alchemists, the blackening, the whitening, the reddening and the yellowing, could be taken as symbolic of individuation — his favourite term for personal growth ( 75 ).

He argued before the United States Senate Committee on Environment and Public Works that, " smart growth strategies tend to intensify the very problems they are purported to solve.

" Cox and Joshua Utt analyzed smart growth and sprawl, and argued that:

He argued that technological, and above all social development would lead to a natural decrease in both population growth and environmental damage.

It can be argued that the sudden growth of the Internet, and the ability of private web-pages to fulfill much the same role of personal expression as zines, was a strong contributor to their pop culture expiration.

The other school follows the teaching of Richard Armstrong, who argued that the continents grew to their present volume in the first 500 million years of Earth history and have maintained a near-constant ever since: throughout most of Earth history, recycling of continental material crust back to the mantle in subduction or collision zones balances crustal growth.

Walt Rostow and Lee Kuan Yew have argued that the U. S. intervention in Indochina, by giving the nations of ASEAN time to consolidate and engage in economic growth, prevented a wider domino effect.

Economists aligned with his government have argued that this was due to external factors outside the control of the administration at the time, such as the devaluation of the Brazilian real and the growth of the share of the debt denominated in US dollars.

Some like the British Marxist historian Timothy Mason have argued that the Second World War was a direct effect of the German economic system, which made expansionism necessary for domestic prosperity, indeed, survival ; and which made Jingoism necessary for the quelling of class conflicts.

All this certainly tended to reduce to gap between Chinese and Malay standards of living, although some argued that this would have happened anyway as Malaysia ’ s trade and general prosperity increased.

This economic stagnation is argued to have commenced with the demise of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1924, with trade networks being disrupted and societies torn apart with the creation of new nation states ; prior to this, the Middle East had a diverse and growing economy and more general prosperity.

This would inflate the money supply, and, adherents argued, increase the nation's prosperity.

Bosses in both of these long-lasting systems argued that their system created a lot of wealth and prosperity.

The German neoliberals accepted the classical liberal notion that competition drives economic prosperity, but they argued that a laissez-faire state policy stifles competition as the strong devour the weak since monopolies and cartels could pose a threat to freedom of competition.

a vociferous attack on applied psychology argued that psychology had forsaken its scientific roots so that individual psychologists might achieve popularity and prosperity.

Krugman argued that only growth in total factor productivity, and not capital investment, could lead to long-term prosperity.

The " silverites " argued that using silver would inflate the money supply and mean more cash for everyone, which they equated with prosperity.

Friedrich Hayek argued that the certainty of law contributed to the prosperity of the West more than any other single factor.

Inglehart argued that rising prosperity was gradually liberating the publics of advanced industrial societies from the stress of basic acquisitive or materialistic needs.

This economic stagnation is argued to have commenced with the demise of the Ottoman Caliphate in 1924, with trade networks being disrupted and societies torn apart with the creation of new nation states ; prior to this, the Middle East had a diverse and growing economy and more general prosperity.

During the transition to the Christian Empire, Symmachus argued that Rome's continued prosperity and stability depended on preserving the mos maiorum, while the early Christian poet Prudentius dismissed the blind adherence to tradition as " the superstition of old grandpas " ( superstitio veterum avorum ) and inferior to the new revealed truth of Christianity.

In fact, many have argued that low-skilled workers experienced declining prosperity in the 1980s.

Those who defended the federalist ideology argued that it was the desire and will of the nation to be formed in this way, and cited the prosperity established under this form of government in the United States, in contrast to the failure of Iturbide.

Hinojosa argued that “ ur country is much better off by being able to let those children get a college education and serve in the military and contribute to the prosperity of our country .”

During the most part of Messalina's influence and prosperity at the imperial court, Lepida had argued with Messalina and they had become estranged ( this might have followed Appius Silanus ' murder ).

" Seeing around him a period of capitalist prosperity in which workers were winning greater reforms, Bernstein argued that capitalism had created new mechanisms -- such as trade unions, and electoral and legal reforms -- that would make an evolution of society toward socialism possible.

Conversely, Wedderburn's counsel argued that commercial interests, which underpinned Scotland's prosperity, should prevail.

The USSR painted itself as a socialist society which emerged out of class struggle, destined to reach the state of communism, while sociologists in the United States ( such as Talcott Parsons ) argued that the freedom and prosperity of the United States were a proof of a higher level of sociocultural evolution of its culture and society.

New Secretary of the Treasury Andrew Mellon argued that significant tax reduction was necessary in order to spur economic expansion and restore prosperity.

It is argued that the catch up in prosperity among populations from coastal regions of China, particularly the nouveau riche ( derogatory Chinese: dàkuǎn 大款 ) and corrupted officials ( derogatory Chinese: dàyé 大爺 ), has driven up the demand of many delicacies such as abalone and grouper, and many celebratory dishes have become outrageously expensive that they are beyond the reach of even many upper-middle class Hong Kong families.

T. D. Jakes, pastor of The Potter's House non-denominational mega-church, has argued in favor of prosperity, rejecting what he sees as the demonization of success.