Not exact matches
In the early 1960s, Canadian
economic historian Marvin McInnis started digging through the Dominion Bureau of Statistics archives, looking for city - level information
on rental prices.
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.
At the conference I saw Dartmouth
economic historian, William Fischel, present a paper
on Amish education, extending the work from his great book, Making the Grade, which I have reviewed in Education Next.
There's Richard Rothstein at the
Economic Policy Institute, Washington Post columnist Valerie Strauss (whose lending of pages to every crackpot opinion borders
on the promiscuous), Pedro Noguera writing for The Nation, and once - respectable education
historian Diane Ravitch's appearances
on The Daily Show and in The Wall Street Journal.
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.
on how influences work,
on the channels
on the nature of exchange among artists of different generations,
on the potential exchanges among artists
on the relationships between professionals, curators and art
historians, and artists
on the different art worlds that constitute an artistic community,
on art and its
economic life
on circulation
on knowledge
on reception
on listening and seeing
on spending time with artists
Named a «Global Leader for Tomorrow» by the World
Economic Forum, he is a member of the Council
on Foreign Relations, a fellow of the Society of American
Historians, and chairs the National Advisory Board of the John C. Danforth Center
on Religion and Politics at Washington University.
When
economic historians begin their postmortems
on the housing bubble, they'll zero in
on nuggets such as: