Sentences with phrase «economic history since»

He described the networking of computers as the most important development in economic history since the opening of trade routes from Europe to Asia in the late Middle Ages.

We are in the midst of an economic revolution that is the most important event in economic history since trade routes opened from Europe to Asia.

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.

Not exact matches

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.

Steve Ketchum, executive director of Sound Point, told Bloomberg that in Puerto Rico, «there are no obvious great economic difficult situations... We are comparing Puerto Rico with some of the worst situations of sovereign debt in history and it simply does not make sense to us, especially since Puerto Rico is a territory of the United States.»

You recently mentioned that you thought this was the worst economic expansion recovery in U.S. history since 1790.

This is not the place to go into the complexities of what used to be called «stratification theory,» but ever since Marx gave a prominent place to «class» in his interpretation of history, there has been general agreement to use this term to refer to a system of ranking in which the command of economic resources is the prevailing criterion.

Given long - standing state fiscal history, Andrew Cuomo's calling his upstate economic development plan Tax Free New York, the name since quickly changed to Start - Up New York, was ironic.

To this administration's credit, the last two years, or at least since one doughty, no - nonsense police officer named Ibrahim Magu became Acting Chairman of the Economic and Financial Crimes Commission (EFCC), the anti-corruption war has been waged in a manner that has never been seen in the history of Nigeria.

However, the relative significance of farming has dropped steadily since the beginning of industrialization, and in 2006 — for the first time in history — the services sector overtook agriculture as the economic sector employing the most people worldwide.

by Roland Laird with Taneshia Nash Laird Illustrated by Elihu «Adofo» Bay Foreword by Charles Johnson Sterling Publishing Paperback, $ 14.95 240 pages, illustrated ISBN: 978 -1-4027-6226-0 Book Review by Kam Williams «One of the invaluable features of Still I Rise, the first cartoon history of black America, is the wealth of information it provides about the marginalized — and often suppressed — political, economic and cultural contributions black people have made on this continent since the 17th C... Using pictures, it transports us back through time, enabling us to see how dependent American colonists were on the agricultural sophistication of African slaves and indentured servants; how blacks fought and died for freedom during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars; and how, in ways both small and large, black genius shaped the evolution of democracy, the arts and sciences, and the English language in America, despite staggering racial and social obstacles.

The following from American economist Deidre McCloskey's book The Economic History of Britain since 1700 is worth noting.

Findings have revealed that some of the most important causes of the Greek economic crisis (among others) were: the country's long history of budget deficits (particularly since 1973), the extensive dimensions of tax evasion, bribery, political corruption, falsified data and political interfering in the country's deficit and debt statistics (European Commission, 2010).

Since the 2008 financial crisis, a resurgence of interest in economic and financial history has occurred among investment professionals.

BESIDES SHOWERING RICHES ON THE AVERAGE man in the Street and fueling perhaps the most satisfying economic expansion in history - a boom without tears - this greatest of all bull markets has completely reformulated truisms that investors have lived - and sometimes died - by, ever since the Buttonwood Tree was a spindly sapling.

As the year comes to an end we take a look back to review the history of recent mortgage rule changes in Canada since the economic crash.

Again, history's not likely to be much of a guide, since the Fed will be responding to changes in inflation and economic growth as they come along.

Since emerging from the Glasgow art scene in the early 1990s, Simon Starling (British, b. 1967) has established himself as one of the leading artists of his generation, working in a wide variety of media (film, installation, photography) to interrogate the histories of art and design, scientific discoveries, and global economic and ecological issues, among other subjects.

«This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,» she said.

«This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,» Christina Figueres, Executive Secretary, UN's Framework Convention on Climate Change.

«This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution.

«This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the industrial revolution,» Figueres asserted, at a February 3rd press conference during the Geneva climate talks.

«This is the first time in the history of mankind that we are setting ourselves the task of intentionally, within a defined period of time, to change the economic development model that has been reigning for at least 150 years, since the Industrial Revolution,» she said in anticipation of last year's Paris climate summit.

Since then, history has witnessed radical changes in society and in the economy, which took Klaus Schwas, founder and chairman of the World Economic Forum, to write the book, «The fourth Industrial Revolution in 2016».

Right Resume Structure Overcomes Poor Job Titles / Work History: Millions of job seekers have had to resort to part - time roles, contract work, and consulting to sustain their careers since the 2008 economic meltdown.