Sentences with phrase «modern economic history»

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

Not exact matches

Twice Pulitzer - nominated, history professor Brands has elsewhere given book - length treatment to some of the threads he combines in this account of the 35 years that gave birth to the modern economic order.

Moderator: William V. Harris, William R. Shepherd Professor of History and Director, Center for the Ancient Mediterranean, Columbia University Speaker 1: L. Randall Wray, Research Director of the Center for Full Employment and Price Stability and Professor of Economics, University of Missouri - Kansas City Speaker 2: Michael Hudson, President, Institute for the Study of Long - Term Economic Trends and Distinguished Research Professor, University of Missouri - Kansas City Tuesday, September 11, 2012 About the Seminar Series: Modern Money and Public Purpose is an eight - part, interdisciplinary seminar series held at Columbia Law School over the 2012 - 2013 academic...

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.

Adam Smith believed the joint - stock company — the precursor of the most successful form of economic organization in the planet's history, the modern corporation — couldn't possibly work.

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).

In modern thought the expression of this truth has taken the form of «the economic interpretation of history».»

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In 1970, JK Galbraith observed in The Affluent Society that «few things are more evident in modern social history than the decline of interest in inequality as an economic issue».

Let us concentrate and spend our energies on working together to achieve that goal of a happy and prosperous Ghana, and reject the hypocrisy of the naysayers who led our country into bankruptcy and the worse economic record of modern Ghanaian history.

«Reject the hypocrisy of naysayers who led our country into bankruptcy and the worse economic record of modern Ghanaian history.»

The chancellor blamed the previous government for leaving the coalition with the «worst economic inheritance in modern history», which he said had brought Britain a level of debt that «threatened every job and public service in the country».

«Only once before in human history have we encountered a similar process: in the early modern era, when the counterbalance that had been establish at a local level in the Middle Ages was surpassed by the increasing political and economic scale.

As a result of Brazil's mounting economic woes, federal funding for science and technology is now at its lowest level in modern history, dropping by more than half over the past 5 years.

John F. Nash Jr., a mathematician who shared a Nobel in 1994 for work that greatly extended the reach and power of modern economic theory and On this day in History, John F. Kennedy assassinated on Nov 22, 1963.

K - 4.3 The History of the United States: Democratic Principles and Values and the People from Many Cultures Who Contributed to Its Cultural, Economic, and Political Heritage GRADES 5 - 12 NSS - USH.5 - 12.1 Era 1: Three Worlds Meet (Beginnings to 1620) NSS - USH.5 - 12.2 Era 2: Colonization and Settlement (1585 - 1763) NSS - USH.5 - 12.3 Era 3: Revolution and the New Nation (1754 - 1820s) NSS - USH.5 - 12.4 Era 4: Expansion and Reform (1801 - 1861) NSS - USH.5 - 12.5 Era 5: Civil War and Reconstruction (1850 - 1877) NSS - USH.5 - 12.6 Era 6: The Development of the Industrial United States (1870 - 1900) NSS - USH.5 - 12.7 Era 7: The Emergence of Modern America (1890 - 1930) NSS - USH.5 - 12.8 Era 8: The Great Depression and World War II (1929 - 1945) NSS - USH.5 - 12.9 Era 9: Postwar United States (1945 to early 1970s) NSS - USH.5 - 12.10 Era 10: Contemporary United States (1968 to the Present)

This exhibition reconsiders the state of contemporary art in Latin America, investigating the creative responses of artists to complex, shared realities that have been influenced by colonial and modern histories, repressive governments, economic crises, and social inequality, as well as by concurrent periods of regional economic wealth, development, and progress.

With a focus on work made by artists born after 1968, in addition to several early pioneers who were active internationally in the 1960s and 70s, Under the Same Sun at the SLG examines a diversity of creative responses by artists to complex, shared realities that have been influenced by colonial and modern histories, repressive governments, economic crises, and social inequality, as well as by concurrent periods of regional economic wealth, development, and progress.

Austen Brown considers the inherent social and economic implications of space and architecture by excavating the modern history and current legacy of two Chicago sites: Marina Towers and the Raymond Hilliard Tenement Homes.

[10] While it seems ironic that an unofficial artist will represent the Chinese state at the largest public ceremony in modern Chinese history, the fact that Cai's rise to fame has coincided with China's epic economic transformation during the years of reform has earned him his place in that history.

The nine artists work with various media, presenting photography, sculpture, painting, video and installation, juxtaposing material and form with the socio - political, economic and environmental frameworks within which the works were made; Art that is — or has become — reflective and temporal contemplations of its varying eras, as we simultaneously revisit Modern Art Oxford's fascinating history.

(New York, USA) The exhibition examines the diversity of today's creative responses to complex shared realities, which have been influenced by colonial and modern histories, repressive governments, economic crises, and social inequality, as well as by concurrent periods of regional economic wealth, development, and progress.

My own view is that the «No» side has the better view of it, particularly in light of the extensive history of economic sanctions and blockades as a tools of international policy and warfare throughout modern history, but I'll concede there are competing views.