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Functional Diversity as Social Parable: El hijo de la novia (2001) and Anita (2009)
Iberoamericana. 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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Tariffs and the Great Depression Revisited [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2003 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]
International 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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Formative Experiences and Portfolio Choice: Evidence from the Finnish Great Depression
, 2016 Formative experiences are a natural candidate for explaining heterogeneity in portfolio choice. However, identifying their impact is challenging because experiences can correlate with unobservables and they may lead to changes in wealth and other ...
Samuli Knüpfer +2 more
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Network Contagion and Interbank Amplification during the Great Depression
Journal of Political Economy, 2016 Interbank networks amplified the contraction in lending during the Great Depression. Panics induced banks in the hinterland to withdraw interbank deposits from Federal Reserve member banks located in reserve and central reserve cities.
K. Mitchener, Gary A. Richardson
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The Great Recession and the Great Depression [PDF]
, 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.
Peter Temin, Peter Temin
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Not guilty? : agriculture in the 1920s and the Great Depression [PDF]
, 2005 Agricultural distress in the 1920s is routinely quoted among the causes of the Great Depression. This paper challenges the conventional wisdom. World agriculture was not plagued by overproduction and falling terms of trade.
Federico, Giovanni
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Key Challenges Facing Modern Finance: Making the Financial Sector Serve Society
Финансы: 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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Österreichische Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaften, 2019 This paper raises the question as to whether the great depression after 1873 had a direct impact on meat supply and consumption in Vienna. Based on newspaper articles, official statistics, municipal records, and consumption figures, this article will ...
Maximilian Martsch
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The Great Recession & the Great Depression [PDF]
Daedalus, 2010 In the depths of the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes wrote that “[p]racticalmen, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist.”1 This acute observation is applicable to our current Great Recession as well. In fact, the newly discredited ideas are not all that different
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