Economic History
epub |eng | 2016-05-16 | Author:Foroohar, Rana

FOXES IN THE HENHOUSE Many of the biggest institutional investors who are now in the market for oil and other commodities have gotten there via banks like Goldman Sachs and ...
( Category: Book Notes June 28,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Cuadros, Alex; [Cuadros, Alex;]

CHAPTER 8 THE PROFIT MOTIVE A NEW RICHEST MAN, MERITOCRACY, AND THE VALUE OF MONEY “Money in and of itself isn’t what fascinates me.” —JORGE PAULO LEMANN ($20 BILLION) “Jorge ...
( Category: Globalization June 28,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-04-30 | Author:Geoffrey C. Ward [Ward, Geoffrey C.]

† Much later, Buck would claim that in early May 1883, he told Ferd expressly that the firm should have nothing to do with the contract business for fear his ...
( Category: United States June 27,2016 )
epub |eng | 2014-05-20 | Author:Wendy Hamand Venet [Venet, Wendy Hamand]

8. The Barbarous War On a hot, humid night in July 1864, Sam Richards pulled out his small clothbound diary and penned an entry. Richards worried about the military situation, ...
( Category: State & Local June 14,2016 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 2016-04-11 | Author:William N. Goetzmann [Goetzmann, William N.]

EUROPEAN COUNTERPOINT The creation of such a private company would hardly seem revolutionary from our modern vantage point. After all, private firms like Archer Daniels Midland and Cargill (one public, ...
( Category: Economic History June 11,2016 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | 2016-05-17 | Author:Rana Foroohar [Foroohar, Rana]

“I’m sure that Goldman used the information they had about aluminum to influence the market between 2010 and 2013,” says Cornell law professor Saule Omarova. (Her paper on the problems ...
( Category: Economic Policy June 9,2016 )
epub |eng | 2016-04-19 | Author:Meg Jacobs [Jacobs, Meg]

6 Hot Summer Mad IN EARLY 1979, the White House could see the makings of a political disaster. A few months earlier, in October 1978, strikes in the Iranian oil ...
( Category: History & Theory May 27,2016 )
epub, mobi, pdf |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Gregory Clark [Clark, Gregory]

TABLE 10.6. Relative representation of samurai and kazoku among medical researchers, 1965–89 Year Samurai Kazoku Observed 1965–66 30 13 Observed 1989–90 70 23 1965–66 5.99 4.95 1989–90 4.69 2.94 Implied ...
( Category: Economic History May 24,2016 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Nicholas Wapshott [Wapshott, Nicholas]

FOURTEEN The Wilderness Years Mont-Pèlerin and Hayek’s Move to Chicago, 1944–69 Hayek did little to build on the popular success of The Road to Serfdom in America. He was a ...
( Category: Theory May 12,2016 )
epub |eng | 2006-05-04 | Author:H. W. Brands

IN FACT HE did intend to make money on the Union war bonds. Cooke cultivated Chase assiduously, hosting the Treasury secretary at his estate outside Philadelphia. Chase brought along his ...
( Category: Money & Monetary Policy May 5,2016 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2016-03-02 | Author:Mervyn King [KING, MERVYN]

Greece became the first major European country to experience a depression on the scale of the 1930s Great Depression in the United States. Between 1929 and 1933, total output in ...
( Category: Money & Monetary Policy May 4,2016 )
epub |eng | 1991-04-14 | Author:Michael Lewis

29 January: On a Dock in Barbados The photo session with Rukeyser was scheduled for 9 P.M., and it was nearing 8 P.M. when I sat down on the dock, ...
( Category: Business April 15,2016 )
epub |eng | 2015-05-26 | Author:Michael Walzer

The last of these is particularly problematic, for in the conditions of guerrilla war it must often involve releasing prisoners, something most guerrillas are no doubt loath to do. Yet ...
( Category: History & Theory April 15,2016 )
epub |eng | | Author:Robert Higgs

CULTIVATING AND PRUNING THE FIRST NEW DEAL: THE SUPREME COURT Legislate as it might, the 73rd Congress still had to get its laws past the courts. For several years the ...
( Category: General April 14,2016 )
epub |eng | 2012-01-23 | Author:Louis Hyman [Hyman, Louis]

CHAPTER SIX BRINGING GOOD THINGS TO LIFE (1970–1985) As credit cards began to enter society in new places, The Wall Street Journal followed their emergence. Many stories focused on people ...
( Category: Credit Ratings & Repair April 13,2016 )