Sentences with phrase «of economic historian»

However, if like me, you enjoy reading the books of economic historian Niall Ferguson, you will appreciate that everything old will become new again — if you wait long enough.

Not exact matches

«Lower oil prices have not proven to be as stimulative as economic theory once had it,» said Daniel Yergin, the energy historian and vice chairman of the IHS consultancy.

«Furthermore, in the main, historians educated as Keynesians and monetarists do not understand the economic history of money, let alone the difference between a gold standard and a gold - exchange standard.

In 1988 The New York Times editorialized in favor of repealing Glass - Steagall: «Few economic historians now find the logic behind Glass - Steagall persuasive.»

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.

«Orthodox economic historians have long complained about the «great depression» that is supposed to have struck the United States in the panic of 1873 and lasted for an unprecedented six years, until 1879.

As economic historian J.K. Galbraith wrote about the advance leading up to the 1929 crash, the market's gains «had an aspect of great reliability... Indeed the temporary breaks in the market which preceded the crash were a serious trial for those who had declined fantasy.

The index «was a hodge - podge of numbers,» says historian Walter Friedman, author of «Fortune Tellers: The Story of America's First Economic Forecasters.»

The sixth level of abstraction displays the categories of «forces» or «factors» traditionally used by historians to indicate their disciplinary perspective: economic, political, technological, aesthetic, psychological, social, or cultural.

Perhaps the lyrics apply to the last one, if we equate land - hunger with the desire for «gold,» but political history accounts of why «such - and - such a President or Congress eventually entered us into such - and - such a war» reveal time and again that a motivation of economic interest was not the reason, and seldom even the second or third reason, offered or discussed (even in the secret discussions hence uncovered by historians).

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.»

The statement declares that «what some historians have termed a «discovery» in reality was an invasion and colonization with legalized occupation, genocide, economic exploitation, and a deep level of institutional racism and moral decadence.»

It is only in recent years that historians have begun to write social and economic histories; before that histories were primarily records of defeats and victories in battle.

The search for a simpler life is usually a response to a crisis like war or economic depression, according to historian David Shi, author of The Simple Life.

Other perspectives have been available: a veritable host of historians — Paul Kleppner, Robert Swierenga, Richard Jensen, and Ronald Formisano, to name only a few — have demonstrated that American political parties have always been coalitions of «ethnocultural» or «ethnoreligious» groups rather than economic or class - based alliances.

Certain Progressive historians prepared the intellectual ground for this transition, arguing with varying intensity (and inaccuracy) that Mr. Madison's Constitution was, in effect, an elaborate hoax, an instrument whose nominal republican sentiments masked a deeper, sinister intent to protect the political and economic power of the ruling classes.

Since none of them seems to have paid much attention to the strict and historically precise technical description of what I (along with traditional economic historians) mean by «capitalism,» and all seem to confuse the concept (in good American libertarian fashion) with any sort of trade or barter in general, I can only recommend that they return to the original article and read the passages they apparently skimmed over the first time.

From time to time thinkers and pastors, identified at the time by authority as «heretics», seen by others as prophets, and by some historians now as social revolutionaries, reached the conclusion that the Christian Gospel spoke of a body of Christians, of an incipient «Church», of a kind far removed from the type of political and economic structure maintained by Roman Canon Law.

He is a bit of a strange creature in modern economics: as much an economic historian and archeologist as a number - crunching theorist.

Speaking of yawn, there's a lot of economic to and fro detailed here over a series of budgets, autumn statements and spending reviews that may be of interest to anoraks and historians but not the common reader.

As a historian I am only too aware that during times of economic crisis people, scared about their precarious situation, are happy to be given a scapegoat for their predicament.

In retrospect historians may look at the period before the economic crisis hit as one of consensus politics: where the Conservative opposition stuck to Labour's public spending plans.

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).

Historians now know that during the first half of the third millennium B.C.E., political and economic power in Mesopotamia were being concentrated in a few large centers.

The economic historian, William Fischel, carefully documents how the development and spread of high school education in the United States was driven by localities seeking to compete for residents demanding a more rigorous education.

Economic historian Claudia Goldin (1998) calls the rapid spread of secondary schooling the second great transformation of American schooling, after the growth of the common school in the 19th century.

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.

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Investigative historian Eric Zuesse is the author, most recently, of They're Not Even Close: The Democratic vs. Republican Economic Records, 1910 - 2010, and of CHRIST»S VENTRILOQUISTS: The Event that Created Christianity.

The research team for this study included ice - core specialists, atmospheric scientists, archaeologists, and economic historians — an unusual combination of expertise.

Dr. Garrick Hileman, an economic historian at the University of Cambridge and the London School of Economics, explained in an interview with CNN that Bitcoin is nothing short of an economic miracle.

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.