The Influence of Economic Power

Every individual, group, industry, church, government, or nation truly depends on the strength and unpredictability of economic power. Sure, political power is important, but it just can't hold up without solid economic backing. Political power becomes meaningless if the economy of any organization is struggling. Economic power is what drives everything else in our lives. Even governments can't function effectively if they're economically weak or struggling. Smooth operations in any organization hinge on a healthy economy. When your economic power is steady and strong, it makes the results of everyone's hard work so much easier to see.

I think "means to produce" might be a better term here. A good economy and the emergence of a strong political power normally stem from being able to produce something. It is normally either food, good transport links or exports.

totally agree, economic power will be able to bring everything that can move to achieve the desired goal, it is believed and it cannot be denied. but it must also be remembered that economic power cannot move if there is no political power to accompany every step that will be taken. it has been proven that there are still many developing countries, with political power capable of making all submit and cannot be evaded by this political power, everything is regulated and directed according to the wishes of those in power who have political power.

On the opposite it is not that way rather the other way round at least in this modern situation. Political power is now showing to be more powerful than economic power. Political power covers also decision making. So whoever has political power can take a decision against he who has economic power which is the money. In the real sense to have economic power, you have to involve in some kind of business or investment but that investment area can be rendered useless, unimportant or just very little profit that will be frustrating to the business owners by the decision made politically by those in power or parliament. It is a simple analysis that can be made broad and reference to our daily economic life in different countries. If there are no good economic policies for investment and businesses to grow then they will remain stunted. No, it is the government that make decisions for business environment.

It is not necessary that governments sometimes use the economy as a weapon, as they force societies into extreme poverty, and therefore they are ready to accept any kind of basics as economic successes for the government. In countries, providing a loaf of bread is a political and economic victory for the government, and providing medicine and others. So it is a weapon in both ends.

You are right that basically the economy is the main pillar that must be controlled properly, in other words a strong state is with abundant economic power and proper management. The role of politics is to play its role where mobilizing the economy needs to ride on and this is where politics does its job properly with diplomacy to outside regions or countries to have good economic relations. So that cooperation is established to achieve a balance with each other.

We cannot compare economical power to the political power because they all have their own influence and scope they covers by making change to occur through the economy, this all begins with individuality contributions towards the fast growth of the system put in olace by the governing authorities, when we adhere strict to the planning and partke in every efforts centered at improving the economy, power won't be vested on one side.

In theory we can can see a lot of influence the economic power has on society but practically the political is the machinery that control the way the economical should go. I use my country for example, the government introduced a redesigned fiat currency notes thereby given a policy order to retrieve the old notes in addition to a cashless policy that place restrictions to limited amount of transaction daily. All of these policies and procedures have introduced a lot of controversy from different quarters of the economy. To cut the whole story short, it exposes a lot about how economic power is derived through political power as the political controls the economical.

It's been known that the West is financially sanctioning different countries because they own the widely used financial system. But with the existence of economically powerful countries like China, the sanctioned countries already have options to whom they could ask for loans. It is the world we know today. When a country is able to provide for itself and provide products from its resources like China, it becomes independent. And will start investing in other countries and gain political allies. And just like an individual who has a good steady job and is financially independent, he can think of the welfare of his family.

Many countries were unable to dispel the recession and resulting inflation due to weak sources of economic income, political power is closely related to economic strength and even the smallest source of economic income is supporting everything, without economic strength everything else would appear weak and dysfunctional. It can be concluded that the economy is an important foundation for a country's journey, without strength in this sector, the country will look so weak in the eyes of the world. Economic power can never be matched by political influence, because countries will look strong if their economy is at an established stage. The government will not be able to operate if economic resources are not healthy and vice versa all the things you mentioned must go hand in hand, because all this support is needed by the government in carrying out the state system.

Definitely. A good Government will always want to take its economy to a Production economy which in turn strengthens that economy. An economy that is not able to use its resources for optimal productivity will certainly reflect in its relevance within nations and that too affects its political power or relevance. I think you are looking at it from a micro perspective. In a broader sense, Say a country that doesn't have any resources and really doesn't generate much revenue, what type of political power could they possibly have amongst their pair nations

When you refer to economic power, you refer to the availability of money, because you cannot talk about the economy without mentioning money. No matter the kind of power any government has, they need finance to execute whatever is planned and finance to also manage things. Money is powerful and any country that has unlocked how to stay in abundance of money is usually a powerful and influential country and can afford to use the influence of their economy to improve their military power and political influence. I agree with you that economic power is perhaps the most important.

This is so true, most especially, this last part, this is something many of us have experienced I believe, working hard in a country where it's economy is shattered will take more than triple effort to at least, see a little result of one's labor. This I believe is one of the reasons why many people leave their country, travel to other countries in search of a greener pasture, if the government of a country can achieve a good and a stable economy for its country, I tell you that 50 percent of that country's problem is solved, this is also same for churches and other organizations.

Because the economy is the biggest force in life, that's what makes the economy the main key in a life. Even now colonizing is no longer in the form of taking up arms or war, but with the economic power of a country it can "colonize" more subtly. With economic strength a country can have diplomatic cooperation and that can make a country's politics even better.

I think this is very evident on those countries that have been destroyed by wars, specially WWII. There are countries in Europe that are devastated but was able to recover in short amount of time, maybe they have  good leaders, but still though they have to produce something within inside and transform it as their best assets and then export it somewhere else. I still remember my history teacher in HS about this one, it is still the people and how they are going to produce that will help countries to recover from devastation and I think still applies up to this day.

While I don't think money is everything, money is indeed king, that is, if we talk of power. As unfortunate as it may seem, money can actually buy you almost everything. That is true to the level of individuals, organizations, countries. Political power only follows money. So from local politics up to the national and international politics, economic power is the king. With economic power comes political power. While that may not be absolute, it is easily observed around to be the case.

if you think about it, life in this world does require economic stability. politicians also work for economic welfare, traders, businessmen, employees, and even presidents. everyone wants to prosper their respective economies, if you think about it, everyone is very individual, but to achieve all that sometimes it takes strong cooperation.

Economic power is the wheel of other forms of power because without it other forms of power will be impotent. The other forms of power need financial power to function which is why other forms of power always want to attract economic power. But it is also important to state that political, economic religious, social, and others at interconnected and interdependent. If the political system in a country is bad, the economy of the country will also be affected negatively. When religion promotes peace and justice, society will be a better place.

America survives as the strongest country because their economy is very strong, they have the confidence to play global politics because they control most of the world's economy, the economy is the basic force to increase influence and power over everything, someone with a strong economy will easily get the trust of other people because he is seen as capable of managing the wealth he owns, as well as countries and organizations if they don't have a good economy it will be very difficult to process and develop or implement the vision and mission they create.

I think the saddest part about this is the fact that there are so many nations that could grow and be better, there are hundreds of millions of people who could live a better life, and only thing between their goals and better life is the corrupt officials and governments. There are governments who prefer to keep the nation doing not so great, because if you turn the nation into a great place, then they will ask for more, and constantly require to get better. Whereas if you keep them at low, then you teach them how to be grateful for even the smallest things while you personally get super rich. That's why it's obvious that we are talking about a worse world than we could potentially have.