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Taurog’s 1931 adaptation of Mark Twain’s The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn: An Existential Reality of America in the 1860’s [PDF]

open access: yesمطالعات بین‌رشته‌ای ادبیات، هنر و علوم انسانی
Adaptation studies gained a renewed focus on the understanding of the mutations contained in the area of film adaptation namely by drawing on theorists like Linda Hutcheon and Robert Stam. This being the case, studying the film adaptation is to work as a
Asghar Moulavinafchi   +2 more
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ECONOMIC FACTORS OF TRANSFORMATION OF THE IMPERIAL SYSTEM OF GREAT BRITAIN IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD.

open access: yesВестник Брянского государственного университета, 2021
The laws of the evolution of the British imperial system, which was the largest and one of the most complex state entities in the world history, seem to be an important object of study that requires a comprehensive analysis, taking into account the ...
Sagimbaev A.V.
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Key Challenges Facing Modern Finance: Making the Financial Sector Serve Society

open access: yesФинансы: теория и практика, 2020
The purpose of this paper is to discuss the broad issue of how to make the financial sector serve society, at least serve it better than it has until now.
J. E. Stiglitz
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O.M.W. Sprague (the Man Who “Wrote the Book” on Financial Crises) meets the Great Depression

open access: yesJahrbuch für Wirtschaftsgeschichte, 2022
When the Great Depression struck the United States, O.M.W. Sprague was America’s foremost expert on financial crises. His History of Crises under the National Banking System is a frequently cited classic.
Rockoff Hugh
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From great depression to great recession [PDF]

open access: yesInternational Review of Economics & Finance, 2011
Abstract This paper presents an overview of the history of thought on the factor content of trade. It emphasizes that the conditions of factor price equalization do not hold. It describes a theory of destructive trade that is at the root of the Great Recession of 2008 and 2009.
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Functional Diversity as Social Parable: El hijo de la novia (2001) and Anita (2009)

open access: yesIberoamericana. América Latina - España - Portugal, 2020
Functional diversity in Argentine cinema often functions as a symbolic instrument to affirm normality of majority society. However alterity of functional diversity can also serve as a touchstone to unmask a society in disintegration and affirm this way ...
Susanne Hartwig
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The Great Recession and the Great Depression [PDF]

open access: yes, 2010
This paper discusses parallels between our current recession and the Great Depression for the intelligent general public. It stresses the role of economic models and ideas in public policy and argues that gold-standard mentality still holds sway today.
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Wieś poleska doby przemian lat trzydziestych XX wieku w ujęciu Józefa Obrębskiego

open access: yesSprawy Narodowościowe. Seria nowa, 2019
The village in Polesie: Transformations of the 1930s in the view of Józef Obrębski The article deals with political and social themes of Józef Obrębski's texts, which were written in the second half of the 1930s and were devoted to Polesie.
Piotr Cichoracki
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Ireland's great depression [PDF]

open access: yesEconomic and Social Review, 2005
We argue that Ireland experienced a great depression in the 1980s comparable in severity to the better known and more studied depression episodes of the interwar period. Using the business cycle accounting framework of Chari, Kehoe and McGrattan (2005), we examine the factors that lead to the depression and the subsequent recovery in the 1990s.
Ahearne, Alan   +2 more
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Economic consequences of the First World War [PDF]

open access: yesTrendovi u Poslovanju
The First World War (1914-1918) marked the beginning of the 20th century as one of the most destructive conflicts in human history. This paper analyzes the economic consequences of the war, focusing on the costs, both material and in terms of human ...
Nikolić Srboljub   +3 more
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