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Key Challenges Facing Modern Finance: Making the Financial Sector Serve Society
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
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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Functional Diversity as Social Parable: El hijo de la novia (2001) and Anita (2009)
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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Tariffs and the Great Depression Revisited [PDF]
Drawing on recent business cycle research on the Great Depression, we return to an argument we advanced in a 1996 article in the Journal of Monetary Economics - the argument that features of the Hawley-Smoot tariffs could have done more to decrease economic activity than is customarily believed, though not enough to account for the severe decline of ...
Mario J. Crucini +2 more
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From great depression to great recession [PDF]
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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The Great Recession and the Great Depression [PDF]
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.
Peter Temin, Peter Temin
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Wieś poleska doby przemian lat trzydziestych XX wieku w ujęciu Józefa Obrębskiego
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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Credit constraints and the propagation of the Great Depression in Germany [PDF]
We evaluate the role played by loan supply shocks in the decline of investment and industrial production during the Great Depression in Germany from 1927 to 1932.
Adam, Marc C., Jansson, Walter
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Economic consequences of the First World War [PDF]
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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OVERCOMING SOCIAL DIFFERENTIATION AS A FACTOR IN THE TRANSITION TO SUSTAINABLE ECONOMIC GROWTH
In 1970s of XX century, many prominent economists and environmentalists reflected about the limits of economic growth and opposed to the concept of economic growth the concept of sustainable harmonious economic development which implies that investment ...
P. V. Arefyev
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