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Offering new research on strategic factors in the development of the nineteenth century American economy—labor, capital, and political structure—the contributors to this volume employ a methodology innovated by Robert W. Fogel, one of the leading pioneers of the "new economic history."...
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Markets, Planning and the Moral Economy examines the rise of the Progressive movement in the United States during the early decades of the 20th century, particularly the trend toward increased government intervention in the market system that culminated in the establishment of President...
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The Japanese economy has shown paradoxical changes. Its successes in forming a company-centred society generated the long downturn toward zero-growth capitalism. Successful spread of information technologies resulted in deterioration of economic life among working people and a wide fall in birth...
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central bank independence is reminiscent of the fiery debates amongst Germany's political elites in 1949 on the same issue … West Germany's central bank - today's Deutsche Bundesbank - the country's monetary history became a political football, as … argument for an independent central bank. The book challenges assumptions around the evolution of central bank independence …
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French credit policies before 1945 -- The nationalization of credit from 1945 to the late 1950s -- Development then gradual de-institutionalization : the 1960s and 1970s -- Monetary policy without interest rates : domestic macroeconomic effects and international issues of credit controls --...
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