Alfred von Tirpitz

Examples of Alfred von Tirpitz in the following topics:

• Neutral Rights and Submarines

  • "England wants to starve us," said Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the man who built the German fleet and who remained a key adviser to the Kaiser Wilhelm II.
  • Unable to challenge the more powerful Royal Navy on the surface, Tirpitz wanted to scare off merchant and passenger ships en route to Britain.

• American Neutrality

  • "England wants to starve us," said Admiral Alfred von Tirpitz, the man who built the German fleet and remained a key adviser to the Kaiser Wilhelm II.
  • Tirpitz reasoned that the British Isles depended on imports of food, raw materials, and manufactured goods, therefore blocking a substantial number of ships from making these deliveries would effectively undercut Britain’s long-term ability to maintain an army on the Western Front.

• Deregulation

  • After a several decade hiatus, deregulation gained momentum in the 1970s, influenced by research at the University of Chicago and the theories of Ludwig von Mises, Friedrich von Hayek, and Milton Friedman, among others .
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  • Austrian economist Friedrich von Hayek, along with University of Chicago economist Milton Friedman are two classic liberal economists attributed with the return of laissez-faire economics and deregulation.

• The Nineteenth Century

  • The main representatives were Alfred Marshall, Stanley Jevons, and Arthur Pigou.
  • The Vienna school was made up of Austrian economists Menger, Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk, and Friedrich von Wieser.

• Gender and Research

  • While gender research focuses on many of the concepts listed above, sex research (influenced by the likes of Sigmund Freud, Alfred Kinsey, Richard von Krafft-Ebing, William Masters and Virginia Eshelman) looks at such things as human sexual behavior, sexual attraction, and sexual orientations.

• The Western Front

  • This was a modified version of a German invasion blueprint known as the Schlieffen Plan, named for Germany Army Chief of Staff Alfred von Schlieffen, who designed the strategy to quickly overwhelm the French Army.
  • This was countered, however, when the new chief of staff, Helmuth von Moltke, diverted from the original plan and attacked in the south rather than fall back.

• Psychodynamic and Psychoanalytic Therapy

  • Psychodynamic theory was born in 1874 with the works of German scientist Ernst von Brucke, who supposed that all living organisms are energy systems governed by the principle of the conservation of energy.
  • Freud coined the term "psychoanalysis," and related  theories were developed further by Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Melanie Klein, Anna Freud, Erik Erikson, and others.

• Psychodynamic Psychology

  • Psychodynamic theory was born in 1874 with the works of German scientist Ernst von Brucke, who supposed that all living organisms are energy systems governed by the principle of the conservation of energy.
  • Later, these theories were developed further by Carl Jung, Alfred Adler, Melanie Klein, and others.

• Economic Way of Thinking

  • Johann Heinrich von Thünen [1783-1850, German] was one of the early writers who began to apply mathematical methods in the economics of location theory and wages.
  • Alfred Marshall (1842-1924, English Economist), Léon Walras (1834-1910, French/Swiss) and Vilfredo Pareto (1848-1923, Itallian/French/Swiss) were among the writers who were instrumental in the development of Neoclassical economics in the basic form that persists.
  • Alfred Marshall is best known for his use of partial equilibrium that requires the concept of ceteris paribus.
  • Carl Menger and a group of followers (such as Eugen von Böhm-Bawerk [1851-1914], Friedrich von Wieser [1851-1926], Ludwig von Mises [1881-1973] and Friedrich Hayek [1899-1992]) have developed an alternative view of microeconomic behavior.