Economic History
epub, pdf |eng | 1992-08-27 | Author:Karl Marx [Marx, Karl]

[This depends on the nature of the loan itself. Three cases must be distinguished. First Case.—A receives from the bank the amounts loaned on his own personal credit, without giving ...
( Category: Communism & Socialism August 27,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2004-05-12 | Author:Fulcher, James [Fulcher, James]

America was the home of the ‘managerial revolution’ theory, discussed briefly in Chapter 3. Although this underestimated the continued power of owners, it has been argued convincingly by Alfred Chandler ...
( Category: Arms Control August 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-08-20 | Author:Silber, William L.

THE NEW YORK STOCK EXCHANGE DEFENDS ITS TURF The Committee of Five launched a frontal attack to deflect New Street’s challenge. On August 12, 1914, it authorized trading through the ...
( Category: Public Finance August 21,2014 )
epub |eng | 0101-01-01 | Author:Amir Sufi [Sufi, Amir]

Saving the Banks When the banking sector is threatened with significant losses, markets and policy makers are faced with the inevitable question of who should bear the burden. The natural ...
( Category: Economic Policy August 21,2014 )
mobi, pdf |eng | 2004-01-01 | Author:Paul Seabright

PRICES AS OPINION POLLS What may seem mysterious is how prices can come to summarize information in this way. What is the process by which a price, changing in response ...
( Category: Natural History July 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2010-05-01 | Author:Seabright, Paul [Seabright, Paul]

PRICES AS OPINION POLLS What may seem mysterious is how prices can come to summarize information in this way. What is the process by which a price, changing in response ...
( Category: Natural History July 31,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-11-11 | Author:Borjas, George J. [Borjas, George J.]

Figure 7-3 clearly shows that the children of immigrant groups that had high literacy rates would eventually attain more education, and that the children of high-wage immigrant groups would eventually ...
( Category: Economic Conditions July 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-06-22 | Author:Friedman, Walter

CRITICISM AND CRISIS Despite its international connections, the Harvard Economic Service faced challenges on several fronts—more than its competitors had encountered. On the one hand, a barrage of criticism came ...
( Category: Economic History June 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 1999-06-22 | Author:Robert L. Heilbroner

We need not spell out the whole emotionally charged argument; the crux of it lies in this passage. Henry George is outraged at the spectacle of men whose incomes—sometimes fabulous ...
( Category: Theory June 23,2014 )
epub |eng | 2009-12-31 | Author:Richard Donkin

We worked in the huge Buna plant, to which we were herded each morning about 3 a.m. At midday our food consisted of potato and turnip soup, and in the ...
( Category: Labor & Industrial Relations June 20,2014 )
epub |eng | 2000-06-08 | Author:Das, Gurcharan

wholesalers and retailers, Dhirubhai Ambani was hustling nearby in Bombay's Mulji Jetha wholesale market. He was peddling imported nylon yarn, which he had acquired through the export of rayon fabric. ...
( Category: Asian June 9,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 2010-10-15 | Author:Carl E. Walter & Fraser J. T. Howie [Walter, Carl E. & Howie, Fraser J. T.]

The rapid growth in the China Development Bank’s funding and lending activities coincides with the ascension of the new Party and government leadership in 2003 and the start of a ...
( Category: Economic Policy May 29,2014 )
mobi, epub |eng | 1987-01-02 | Author:Paul M. Kennedy [Kennedy, Paul M.]

*That is to say, its output in 1929 totaled what it probably would have reached in 1921, had there been no war and had the pre-1913 growth rates continued. *That ...
( Category: Economic History May 29,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-01-09 | Author:Bob Swarup

Of Sons and Gold Stars I have a three-year-old son, Maanas. A few months ago, in an effort to incentivize good habits and following the advice on numerous online parenting ...
( Category: Economic History May 21,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2009-01-13 | Author:Ha-Joon Chang [Chang, Ha-Joon]

Sir Isaac Newton once famously said, ‘if I have seen a little further, it is by standing on the shoulders of giants’.42 He was referring to the fact that ideas ...
( Category: Specific Topics May 13,2014 )