Sentences with phrase «economic history from»

He received his B.A. in economics from George Mason University and masters in economic history from the London School of Economics.

She also holds a MSc in economics and public policy from Sciences Po and École Polytechnique, and a MSc in economic history from the London School of Economics.

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.

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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.

Over the past decade, patient investors benefited greatly from one of the longest economic expansions in U.S. history, using stocks, gold and even cryptocurrency as vehicles of profit.

Craig Hall, a serial entrepreneur and investor based in Holland, notes that the city's history of entrepreneurship emerged from economic necessity.

Realizing that Jews have been the scapegoats of all Western history, that they have been made to bear responsibility for everything from the Black Death to the economic ills of the Germans, these observers fear that the enormous increase in Jewish numbers in America will lead to charges that the Jews have monopolized the opportunities for economic advance and that these charges will pave the way for Fascism here as they paved the way for Hitler in Germany.

This new title applies the same strengths to a broader subject — the history of contemporary economic thought — by focusing on the men and women who shaped it, from Victorian England through the end of the 20th century.

Global economic measures, while admittedly suffering from relatively short histories, are suggesting that growth should remain positive.

Discussing the complacency and complicity of traditional economic models, as taught in universities and adopted by central banks, Michael and Steve take us on a journey from a solar system to a galaxy of thought, taking in the history of economics to solutions for the ongoing global depression.

The insights provided to Jay came from a history professor in 1967 who advised Jay that when countries go off a gold or silver standard, hard economic times are sure to follow because nations begin to think they do not need to work hard and save to enjoy a better life.

Economic contraction in the U.S. and Europe in the early and mid 1970s did not lead immediately to economic contraction in what were then known as LDCs, largely because the massive recycling of petrodollar surpluses into the developing world fueled an investment boom (and also fueled talk about how for the first time in history the LDCs were immune from rich - country receEconomic contraction in the U.S. and Europe in the early and mid 1970s did not lead immediately to economic contraction in what were then known as LDCs, largely because the massive recycling of petrodollar surpluses into the developing world fueled an investment boom (and also fueled talk about how for the first time in history the LDCs were immune from rich - country receeconomic contraction in what were then known as LDCs, largely because the massive recycling of petrodollar surpluses into the developing world fueled an investment boom (and also fueled talk about how for the first time in history the LDCs were immune from rich - country recessions).

It is wishful thinking to imagine that the most extreme economic, debt and investment bubble in history was corrected by a mild economic downturn, a market decline that leaves stocks at 21 times peak earnings (higher than at the 1929 and 1987 peaks), and just a few large - scale defaults from a corporate debt position which continues to claim a record share of operating earnings to finance.

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.

Great dollar rally of 2014 as Fukuyama's History returns in tooth and claw China and Japan are on a quasi-war footing, one misjudgement away from a chain of events that would shatter all economic assumptions (By Ambrose Evans - Pritchard Tks Fred!)

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

Sheila C. Bair served as Chairman of the FDIC from 2006 - 2011, during one of the most turbulent economic eras in history, and was among TIME magazine's 100 most influential people.

In May, the recovery from the Great Recession is poised to become the second - longest economic expansion in American history.

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

This selective «colorblindness» is a mighty convenient approach to race in America for white people, for it allows us to paper over America's troubled (and decidedly anti-Christian) history, to discount racism as a thing of the past for which we are no longer responsible, and to ignore persistent racial injustices like mass incarceration, police brutality, voting rights issues, white flight, and economic inequality, all while consistently benefiting from an oppressive system we claim we can not even see.

Such an awareness does not deny a telos to the history of life, but it does remove its fulfillment from the realm of mere human activity, whether economic, political, or otherwise.

In pursuing this vision he started, as others did, from Karl Rahner's rule that the «immanent» and the «economic» Trinity» the eternal God and His activity in the history of salvation» are one.

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.

And that low point occurred just before the biggest and longest - lasting economic expansion in the history of the world, from 1983 until 2008.

The principle of just intent (or «right reasons,» as Bush invoked it) has been degraded as U.S. actions have escalated from defense of Saudi Arabia and economic sanctions to a massive offensive deployment; to the initiation of history's most devastating air assault, which has severely disrupted civilian life; to the imprudent demand for unconditional surrender.

This was already clear to the economic historian David Landes when he noted that, «If we learn anything from the history of economic development, it is that culture makes all the difference.»

Here Niebuhr, Brunner, and Barth share the same general position, though with some differences in emphasis.13 They all agree that the social orders which form the structure of human history, such as the family, the state, the economic order, betray an essential separation of man from God.

But the history of the voting privilege in the twentieth century shows that it takes the combined power of mass movements, economic pressures, and the Federal Government with its military force to give even a relative assurance that this requirement of justice will be realized.3 It seems, therefore, that when we move from the perspective of love to concrete issues of social strategy and political power, justice is accomplished by a confluence of historical forces and humane considerations which indeed may be enforced by love, but which must have other sources.

Yet for some reason we are convinced at the moment that the ways of our economy should be identical with the laws of the market, and therefore we depart resolutely from norms and customs that controlled economic behavior through our long history of increasing prosperity.

Over the last 30 years we have seen an ever - increasing concentration in the Australian supermarket sector, where the market share of our two largest retailers has increased from around 30 per cent of the market to where it stands today at around 80 per cent, leaving Australia with one of the most concentrated markets in world economic history outside that of former Eastern Bloc countries.

Rather than addressing the real reasons women don't breastfeed - reasons that range from histories of sexual abuse and body image issues to economic and physical constraints - the campaign «portrays anything short of exclusive breastfeeding... as a sign of moral corruption and bad character....

Significant factors like: maternal morbidity, family history, prior birth trauma, socio - economic status, mental health history, expectations of childbirth, adjustment to the role of parent, and many more aspects can influence the way in which a woman and her family integrate and heal from a traumatic birth.

(Which, incidentally, is another theme that reappears throughout European history...) But still, in the new North vs. South Europe France could represent the crucial swing vote, and throw some political clout behind the interests of the South, preventing Germany from fully setting the economic agenda for the continent.

Throughout history, policy - makers have from time to time taken the view that the macroeconomic benefits of high unemployment outweigh its economic and social costs.

And we know from our history that segregation, whether it's economic or racial, breeds inequality.»

The $ 41 billion Housing New York: A Five - Borough, Ten - Year Plan is the most expansive and ambitious affordable housing agenda of its kind in the nation's history, and Mayor de Blasio pledged it would reach New Yorkers ranging from those with very low incomes at the bottom of the economic ladder, all the way to those in the middle class facing ever - rising rents in their neighborhoods.

Obasanjo, who traced the nation's socio - economic and political history from independence to date, said the First Republic generation, led by its founding fathers, gave the country independence, but noted with sadness that the present generation had nothing to offer.

But what we know from economic history is that government can do things to dampen down and rein in bubbles.

Leonard's most striking message was that the party he leads exists not just to «secure a fairer distribution of wealth» from the status quo but «to fundamentally change the existing economic system» via «the biggest programme of social and economic reform in the history of the Scottish parliament».

Schlesinger, a University of Chicago graduate, has a double master's in history from Columbia University and the London School of Economics where she studied economic inequality in cities globally.

In 2008, during a BBC One This Week interview between Abbott, Michael Portillo and Andrew Neil about who was history's worst dictator, Abbott said about the Chinese dictator Mao Zedong: «I suppose some people will judge that on balance Mao did more good than harm... He led his country from feudalism, he helped to defeat the Japanese and he left his country on the verge of the great economic success they are having now.»

The variation is so extreme due to histories of de jure residential segregation, federal housing policies until the last thirty years or so, and histories of economic development and migration that vary from place to place.

«National economic growth slowed in 2016 and New York is not immune,» Morris Peters, a Budget Division spokesman said, «but under this administration unemployment is down in every region of the state, median household income growth is outpacing the nation as a whole, taxes are down for every New Yorker, and upstate is benefiting from the largest economic development investment in history.»

Former Deputy Prime Minister and former Hull graduate of Economics and Economic History, Lord Prescott, has been given an honorary Doctor of Science degree from the university.

By the end of the 20th century, «many countries, especially in the more developed regions, had already achieved population structures older than any ever seen in human history,» says a report, World Population Ageing: 1950 - 2050, from the Department of Economic and Social Affairs (DESA) of the United Nations.

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).

He is currently preparing to apply for grants to study the technology on volunteers from different economic backgrounds as well as those with a history of personality problems and depression who are more likely to find themselves in legal hot water.

Bamboo has a long history of economic and cultural significance, primarily in East Asia and South East Asia where it has been used for centuries for everything from building material to food to medicine.

The growth in those causal factors — from a population boom to reduced economic opportunity in the countryside — has driven the greatest migration worldwide in recent history.