Sentences with phrase «as economic historian»

As economic historian J.K. Galbraith wrote about the advance leading up to the 1929 crash, the market's gains «had an aspect of great reliability... Indeed the temporary breaks in the market which preceded the crash were a serious trial for those who had declined fantasy.

Not exact matches

«Lower oil prices have not proven to be as stimulative as economic theory once had it,» said Daniel Yergin, the energy historian and vice chairman of the IHS consultancy.

«Furthermore, in the main, historians educated as Keynesians and monetarists do not understand the economic history of money, let alone the difference between a gold standard and a gold - exchange standard.

In summary, a 23 - year period in which the US economy achieved the strongest real growth in its history is strangely characterised in some quarters as a «great depression», quite likely because so many economists and historians do not understand that real economic progress puts DOWNWARD pressure on prices.

From time to time thinkers and pastors, identified at the time by authority as «heretics», seen by others as prophets, and by some historians now as social revolutionaries, reached the conclusion that the Christian Gospel spoke of a body of Christians, of an incipient «Church», of a kind far removed from the type of political and economic structure maintained by Roman Canon Law.

He is a bit of a strange creature in modern economics: as much an economic historian and archeologist as a number - crunching theorist.

As a historian I am only too aware that during times of economic crisis people, scared about their precarious situation, are happy to be given a scapegoat for their predicament.

A view that many historians would challenge as being either simplistic or failing to take into account domestic political and economic factors.

In retrospect historians may look at the period before the economic crisis hit as one of consensus politics: where the Conservative opposition stuck to Labour's public spending plans.

Overall health, as shown by seven indicators in teeth and bones, plummeted to an all - time low in the 14th century, according to a study of 17,250 individuals from 100 locations in Europe by Ohio State economic historian Richard Steckel, Larsen, and their colleagues in the Global History of Health Project (Science, 1 May 2009, p. 588).

She holds a MA degree in economic and social history from the University of Amsterdam and worked as historian at the International Institute for Social History, during which she published her book on plantations in the Dutch East Indies.

When economic historians begin their postmortems on the housing bubble, they'll zero in on nuggets such as: