Sentences with phrase «us economic history»

But the only similar environment in modern economic history can still serve as a decent guide to the future.

The disintegration of investment in nonresidential structures and machinery and equipment subtracted almost a full percentage point from GDP; only 2009 and 1982 were worse in that regard, and neither of those years stand out as high points in Canada's economic history.

She has a master's degree in business and economic reporting from New York University and a bachelor's degree in economic history from the London School of Economics.

I found his piece on the economic history of the black / white wage gap to be an essential read.

«The next couple of months are crucial for the future of Ireland,» said Kevin O'Rourke, professor of Economic History at Oxford University, who has written extensively on Ireland's role in the Brexit talks.

John Komlos, professor emeritus of economic history at the University of Munich, says that the stagnation of growth in the USA compared to Northern European populations could be due to different national healthcare systems: for example, the Dutch have access to socialized medicine that Americans do not.

«It's a rare moment in global economic history that people are looking at Canada not for its charm but its expertise,» he says.

Is GDP destined for the dustbin of economic history?

But that's not a bad thing and not so unlike the economic history of developed economies of the U.S., Europe and Japan.

Amity Shlaes, a senior fellow in economic history at the Council on Foreign Relations, is a Bloomberg View columnist.

Chapin has won numerous awards to support her work, including the John E. Rovensky Fellowship in American Business and Economic History and a Miller Center for Public Affairs Fellowship.

The resources sector will, no doubt, continue to make an important contribution to the Australian economy, but it is unlikely that it will shape the next chapter in our economic history as it did the current chapter.

It was universal at that time, and there's been almost no economic history of this.

Overall, it has been a reasonably successful chapter in Australia's economic history.

Past isn't prologue, but economic history does suggest that periods of calm do breed complacency, which creates the conditions for the dumb risks that eventually cause a crisis.

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End the deregulation of banks and interest rates (since 1978 and 1980) One also needs a thorough economic history revision that says Paul Volcker is not the hero of the modern economy and the 1980s is a very disturbing model to emulate.

Bernanke has led the institution through one of the most perilous times in economic history, and Obama acknowledged that he has «stayed a lot longer than he wanted or he was supposed to.»

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No reading of American history, or American economic history, would miss the importance of tariffs in establishing the growth of manufacturing.

[1] Pickens» rhetorical powers are considerable, but in this case his grasp of economic history was not.

«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.

The latter case describes the economic history of the United States during much of the nineteenth century.

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This book is an aid in gaining understanding of economic history.

I think most investors could benefit from the book, mainly because I believe that economic history is valuable.

Most investors don't benefit from an understanding of economic history, which gives a broader skill set for analyzing current problems.

Dr Gurushina received a B.A. (Economics) in 1989 from Moscow State University and a DPhil (Economic History) in 1995 from Oxford University.

That may seem like an obvious point for anyone who understands economic history, but...

It wasn't just a lucky call; it was based on my study of the economic history of America.

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Kinder Morgan's acknowledgement that doing business in Canada may not be worth the trouble represents a watershed moment in Canadian economic history

Knowledge of economic history is critical for good policy making because, as valuable as it is to understand models and theories, in real life policies have to be made in societies that are complex and have political and sociological considerations to take into account.

You've got a historical background in your studies of the banking crises during the Great Depression, do you see economic history making a comeback?

Professor Woo, President of the newly established Jeffrey Cheah Institute on Southeast Asia, talks about the watershed moment in the country's recent economic history and argues for a bi-partisan consensus around «an inclusive national development» plan as the only way forward.

Centuries of economic history warn that this speculative episode, too, will end in a collapse.

pick your poison One could go back in US economic history and one would find the same repeated pattern of BOOM and BUST cycles.

His work on indigenous land use and harvesting among the Western James Bay Cree, first presented at the economic history meetings, was later used in legal proceedings regarding land sovereignty.

MILESTONES By Gordon Platt Rewriting economic history going back to 1929, the Commerce department's Bureau of Economic Analysis (BEA) increased the size of the US economy by $ 560 billion.

The best example from our economic history is the transcontinental railway age.

The first is that this fulfilment by man is set in the stream of global, political, and economic history even when we seem to have only private decisions (like that of the lepers).

But most educated people believe that the gains to income from capitalism's triumph have been modest, that the poor have been left behind, that the Third World has been made miserable in aid of the enrichment of the First, that population growth must be controlled, that diminishing returns on the whole has been the main force in world economic history since 1800.

It is only in recent years that historians have begun to write social and economic histories; before that histories were primarily records of defeats and victories in battle.

That pioneer work should be supplemented — not to say supplanted — by a study of the great modern researches of M. Rostovtzeff, The Social and Economic History of the Roman Empire (1926; new ed., 1940), and his magnificent three - volume work, The Social and Economic History of the Hellenistic World (1940).

See also the chapters on economic history in the Cambridge Ancient History, esp.

Whether the preacher will mediate a world of transformation or equilibrium depends on many things, including what the preacher reads, with whom the preacher eats, the economic history of the preacher, and much else.