Economic History
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-03-25 | Author:Vanity Fair

‘There are going to be a hell of a lot of layoffs. Courses will be cut. Class sizes will get bigger,” conceded a Harvard insider, who, like every other administrator ...
( Category: Essays March 26,2014 )
epub, pdf |eng | 2012-09-15 | Author:Daniel Stedman Jones [Jones, Daniel Stedman]

To avoid misunderstanding, let me emphasize that by using the term “natural” rate of unemployment, I do not mean to suggest that it is immutable and unchangeable. On the contrary, ...
( Category: Conservatism & Liberalism March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-06 | Author:Alan S. Blinder

VARIETIES OF QUANTITATIVE EASING The Fed’s favorite unconventional weapon has been quantitative easing (QE), a term that encompasses a variety of ways to use the central bank’s balance sheet to ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-04-29 | Author:Robert Kuttner [Kuttner, Robert]

PART THREE Chapter 7 The Moral Economy of Debt BY NOW, SEVERAL CONCLUSIONS SHOULD be evident. Reckless indebtedness leads to crisis. More often than not, the culprit is debt that ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | | Author:Jagdish Bhagwati

Air Transport Regarding air transport, progress has been notable in the construction of modern airports in New Delhi, Mumbai, Hyderabad, Ahmedabad, Bangalore, and even some smaller towns, such as Jaipur. ...
( Category: Macroeconomics March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-05-07 | Author:Arthur Herman [Herman, Arthur]

Unlike Knudsen, Donald Nelson was no industrial production man. He was a chemical engineer, with a degree from the University of Missouri—a handy degree when later he had to look ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2011-08-03 | Author:David Hoffman

Chapter 12 The Embrace of Wealth and Power CHARLES RYAN, who delighted in buying a fistful of Menatep Bank shares on a street corner in 1991, became an adviser to ...
( Category: European March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2007-03-14 | Author:William D. Cohan [Cohan, William D.]

I have provided this information to you because it contradicts the disclosure made to MWRA by Merrill Lynch that its contractual relationship with Lazard Freres & Co. "was not in ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2005-03-25 | Author:Kurt Eichenwald [Eichenwald, Kurt]

CHAPTER 15 JORDAN MINTZ SAT AT his desk in shirtsleeves, his sports jacket hanging nearby on a coat rack. It was the morning of December 15, 2000, and he had ...
( Category: Company Profiles March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2014-03-03 | Author:Felix Martin [Martin, Felix]

John Law, before his fall (left, front view)—and after it (right, rear view). (illustration credit 11.1) Law’s System was ingenious, innovative, and centuries ahead of its time. It was even ...
( Category: Economic History March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi, azw3 |eng | | Author:Thomas Piketty [Piketty, Thomas]

Some Partial Explanations: Time, Taxes, and Growth In the end, then, it is hardly surprising that the concentration of wealth decreased sharply everywhere between 1910 and 1950. In other words, ...
( Category: Economic Policy March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2011-01-11 | Author:Michael Lewis [Lewis, Michael]

Chapter Six Spider-Man at The Venetian Golfing with Eisman wasn’t like golfing with other Wall Street people. The round usually began with a collective discomfort on the first tee, after ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2012-10-11 | Author:Mitch Feierstein [Feierstein, Mitch]

Figure 13.3: The price of gold, 2000–2011 Source: ThomsonReuters. We’re just about done on equity markets. The simple truth, once again, is that the assets promised by a Ponzi scheme ...
( Category: Specific Topics March 26,2014 )
epub |eng | 2013-01-06 | Author:Blinder, Alan S.

VARIETIES OF QUANTITATIVE EASING The Fed’s favorite unconventional weapon has been quantitative easing (QE), a term that encompasses a variety of ways to use the central bank’s balance sheet to ...
( Category: Economic Conditions March 26,2014 )
epub, mobi |eng | 2010-11-25 | Author:Eric Hobsbawm [Hobsbawm, Eric]

II The economic forces moving agriculture in those areas where it was accessible to change were those of expansion. Yet over most of the world it inevitably came up against ...
( Category: Economic History March 26,2014 )