Sentences with phrase «economic history demonstrated»

In his 1987 book The Rise and Fall of the Great Powers, this Yale professor of economic history demonstrated that empires tend to expand until (basically) the amount that can be raised in taxes is lower than the cost of enforcing taxation, and the economy collapses.

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It demonstrates ignorance of economic facts and recent history.

CL: I sought to demonstrate to an audience of interested laypeople, both in Australia and other countries, that there's little new under the sun: the «Global Financial Crisis,» as the events of 2007 - 2009 are commonly known in Australia, is merely the latest in a long series of economic and financial crises that have punctuated the history of the past 250 or so years.

The ongoing economic crisis and the rise of all kinds of populism in Europe demonstrate a dangerous backlash in 21st century history; meanwhile extreme industrialization,...

History has demonstrated that over and over again, yet the falsification of skepticism as a scientific method seems not to have generally made it's way into the mainstream scientific community as of yet, certainly not even into the mainstream economic or political arena.

«This book aims to demonstrate how the profession has held to its anachronistic ways at key crisis points in US history: Watergate, communist infiltration, arrival of waves of immigrants, the litigation explosion, the civility crisis, and the current economic crisis that blends with dramatic changes in technology and communications and globalization.

Nevertheless, against the background of the history of previous non-recognition; the subsequent respect accorded to native title by this Court and by the Federal Parliament; and the incontestable importance of native title to the cultural and economic advancement of indigenous people in Australia, it is not unreasonable or legally unusual to expect that any deprivations and extinguishment of native title, so hard won, will not occur under legislation of any Australian legislature in the absence of provisions that are unambiguously clear and such as to demonstrate plainly that the law in question has been enacted by the lawmakers who have turned their particular attention to the type of deprivation and extinguishment that is propounded.