Economic History
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-03-19 | Author:Daron Acemoglu [Acemoglu, Daron]

All this warfare and conflict not only caused major loss of life and human suffering but also put in motion a particular path of institutional development in Africa. Before the ...
( Category: Comparative Politics March 9,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-11-14 | Author:The Economist [The Economist]

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( Category: Theory March 6,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2008-12-29 | Author:Gregory Clark [Clark, Gregory]

Figure 10.4, for example, shows for a group of OECD countries at different income levels their efficiency growth rates from 1960 to 2000 com-pared to their capital growth rates per ...
( Category: Economic History March 5,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-09 | Author:The Economist [Economist, The]

Bagehot A wit may also be wise In praise of an unconventional democrat and guardian of the original Bagehot’s memory HIS foes saw only snobbery and a peacock’s weakness for ...
( Category: Theory March 3,2015 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2012-03-12 | Author:Tomas Sedlacek

5 Descartes the Mechanic The standpoint of economic theory is Cartesian. These are the roots of the homo oeconomicus, as narrow a concept of man as can be imagined . ...
( Category: Macroeconomics March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2008-10-13 | Author:Dilorenzo, Thomas [Dilorenzo, Thomas]

Alexander Hamilton was so eager to centrally plan the entire economy that in his Report on Manufactures he got extremely detailed with his proposals, offering specific examples of how to ...
( Category: United States March 3,2015 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2013-01-27 | Author:Ian Morris [Morris, Ian]

Figure 5.16. Eastern and Western war-making capacity, 200 BCE–1600 CE. The shape of the curves for Western and Eastern war-making capacity between 200 BCE and 1500 CE (figure 5.16) suggests ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 3,2015 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-10-10 | Author:Suzanne McGee [McGee, Suzanne]

Efforts at Reform? Several Wall Street firms began to tweak their compensation packages in late 2008 in response to the public outrage, introducing the concept of the clawback to investment ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2015-02-19 | Author:Liaquat Ahamed

PART FOUR REAPING ANOTHER WHIRLWIND 1928-33 16. INTO THE VORTEX 1928-29 At particular times a great deal of stupid people have a great deal of stupid money. . . . ...
( Category: Banks & Banking March 3,2015 )
mobi |eng | 2012-08-02 | Author:The Economist

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( Category: Theory March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2012-03-19 | Author:Coase, Ronald & Wang, Ning [Wang, Ning]

6 From Capitalism to Capitalisms In the concluding speech at the close of the 2008 Chicago Conference on China’s Market Transformation on July 18th, 2008, Ronald Coase pronounced that “the ...
( Category: Economic History March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2011-08-09 | Author:Kindleberger, Charles P. & Aliber, Robert Z. [Kindleberger, Charles P.]

Four innovations contributed to the surge in property prices and real estate prices in Mexico, Thailand, and other emerging-market countries in the early 1990s. The funding of the overhang of ...
( Category: Economics March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-11 | Author:Thomas E Woods [Woods, Thomas E]

It's Not the Markets, It's the Morals: How Excessively Blaming Markets Undermines Civil Society John Larrivee The extreme ideologies of the twentieth century—Communism, fascism, and National Socialism—produced totalitarian disaster wherever ...
( Category: Economic History March 3,2015 )
epub |eng | 2010-09-07 | Author:Andrew Ross Sorkin [Sorkin, Andrew Ross]

John Mack pulled out his cell phone the moment he left the New York Fed Building to report back to the office. “Guys, it’s going to be a long night,” ...
( Category: Government & Business February 15,2015 )
azw3 |eng | 2012-08-09 | Author:Smith, Adam [Smith, Adam]

CHAPTER V . OF BOUNTIES. Bounties upon exportation are, in Great Britain, frequently petitioned for, and sometimes granted, to the produce of particular branches of domestic industry. By means of ...
( Category: Colonial Period February 13,2015 )