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Fiscal policy in a depressed economy : was there a ‘free lunch’ in 1930s’ Britain? [PDF]

, 2012
We report estimates of the fiscal multiplier for interwar Britain based on quarterly data and timeseries econometrics. We find that the government-expenditure multiplier was in the range 0.3 to 0.9 even during the period that interest rates were at the
Crafts, N. F. R., Mills, Terence C.
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“Pour ton peuple et ton histoire nous ramènerons la violence au stade”: historicité et mémoire de la violence du PAOK

Diacronie. Studi di Storia Contemporanea, 2020
PAOK, as Greek football in general, is facing a lack of historicization as a social phenomenon. It is either delegitimized by public discourses or mythologized.
Lukas TSIPTSIOS
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Non‐Career Ambassador Appointments: Transformations in Turkish Diplomacy during the 1920s and 1930s

History, EarlyView.
Abstract During the early years of the Turkish Republic, the establishment of foreign missions, the assignment of new diplomats to these missions as well as the inheritance of experiences, diplomats, buildings and other assets from the Ottoman Empire were matters of major political concern.
Evren Küçük
wiley   +1 more source

A European-type wage equation from an American-style labor market: Evidence from a panel of Norwegian manufacturing industries in the 1930s [PDF]

Using a newly constructed panel of manufacturing industry data for interwar Norway, we estimate a long-run wage curve for the 1930s that has all the modern features of being homogeneous in prices, proportional to productivity, and having an unemployment ...
Jurgen Doornik, Jan Tore Klovland, Gunnar Bårdsen   +2 more
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An Anti-Urban Education? Work camps and ideals of the land in Interwar Britain [PDF]

, 2012
The article examines the role of work camp movements in developing rural critiques of urban living in interwar Britain. A variety of work camp movements flourished in Europe during the interwar years, often partly as a reaction against urbanisation, and ...
Field, John
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La nature artistique du travail de l’architecte dans les débats professionnels : le cas de la Société des architectes modernes (1922-1946)

Perspective
Through their declarations and practice during the interwar period, the members of the Société des Architectes Modernes (Modern Architects Society, SAM) developed a discourse on the similarity between architectural and artistic labour. The SAM architects,
Léna Lefranc-Cervo
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EVOLUTIONS OF THE OLYMPIC MOVEMENT UNDER THE INFLUENCE OF THE CHANGES ON THE WORLD POLITICAL MAP IN THE INTERWAR PERIOD [PDF]

Revista Română de Geografie Politică, 2016
The use of sports and politics has had both positive and negative implications over history. Sports competitions or activities have had the intention to bring about change in certain cases. Nationalistic fervor is sometimes linked to victories or losses
Vasile GRAMA, Ştefan MAROTI, Grigore Vasile HERMAN   +2 more
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Barbara's Daughters: Women's Boxing and Social Memory in Britain

History, EarlyView.
Abstract A pioneer of post‐war boxing, Barbara Buttrick fought in fairgrounds and on music‐hall stages in Britain and France before making a career in the United States during the 1950s. She fought against practical obstacles, prejudice and discrimination to become the Women's World Flyweight and Bantamweight Champion in 1957. This article examines her
Matthew Taylor
wiley   +1 more source

Shooting on a Moving Target: Eyplaining European Bank Rates during the Interwar Period [PDF]

This paper describes the monetary policy response of countries during the inter-war period. How did central banks react to the Great Depression? How did countries balance the externals demands of the gold standard with domestic policy pressures? What was
Nikolaus Wolf, Kirsten Wandschneider
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Pastoralists, Camels and State-Making: The Banu Sakhr and Glubb Pasha in Early Twentieth-Century Jordan

Nomadic Peoples
The administrative documents produced in Transjordan during the first decades of the British Mandate concerning the Banu Sakhr Bedouin tribe offer a detailed case study of state-making and the consequent disruption of autonomous nomadic pastoralist ...
Patrick Hegarty Morrish
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