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A particularly telling example is the aftermath of the Napoleonic wars of the early nineteenth century, when a string of exhausted states defaulted on their obligations.
This was the case under the gold-based monetary regimes such as the Gold Standard of the nineteenth century, and it is the case today for countries that have relinquished their monetary autonomy, such as the members of the eurozone.
Given the key role that provincial excesses played in the crisis from which the country just escaped (a role similar to the one they played in the worst financial panic of the nineteenth century, the Baring Crisis of 1890), none of this should be taken lightly.
That issue risks becoming the twenty-first-century equivalent of what the Schleswig-Holstein question was for European diplomats in the nineteenth century – a recurring nightmare.
Nevertheless, the simplistic economics of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, when neoclassical theories arose, are wholly unsuited to twenty-first-century economies.
In the nineteenth century, some 80 million people crossed oceans to new homes – far more than in the twentieth century.
Economists vs. EconomicsCAMBRIDGE – Ever since the late nineteenth century, when economics, increasingly embracing mathematics and statistics, developed scientific pretensions, its practitioners have been accused of a variety of sins.
By the end of the nineteenth century, Europe, from Vienna and Berlin to Paris and London, was already celebrating the transformation of business life.
A Time to SpendBERKELEY – The central insight of macroeconomics is a fact that was known to John Stuart Mill in the first third of the nineteenth century: there can be a large gap between supply and demand for pretty much all currently produced goods and services and types of labor if there is an equally large excess demand for financial assets.
The record takes to new lengths the idea that the historian’s task, as Leopold von Ranke put it in the nineteenth century, is to show “what actually happened.”
But Karl Marx and Alexis de Tocqueville, the two great social analysts of the nineteenth century, knew better what makes people tick, and what makes societies change.
The creation of money is often thought to be the domain of the state: this was the prevalent doctrine of the nineteenth century, reaching its apogee in the German economist Georg Friedrich Knapp’s The State Theory of Money .
He has also shown that many of the nineteenth century’s successful high-tariff countries, such as Canada and Argentina, used tariffs as a revenue source, not as a means of sheltering domestic manufacturers.
Metternich’s system worked through much of the nineteenth century, because it protected a genuine balance of power between countries that shared common values.
This imperative was evident in England’s pursuit of Flanders in the sixteenth and seventeenth centuries; in the economic and military pursuit of Britain by the US and Germany in the late nineteenth century; and in the rise of Japan, the East Asian Tigers, and China in the twentieth century.
At the end of the nineteenth century the huge amount of investment and technological progress in America's railroads appeared to benefit everyone but the stockholders and bondholders of railroad companies, as bust followed boom and ramming worthless securities down the throats of investors became Wall Street's favorite sport.
In the nineteenth century, Europe’s southern and eastern extremities were united by common decay.
But Giuseppe Garibaldi, the general who united Italy’s city-states in the nineteenth century, must be turning over in his grave.
In some places, the denial and invective hurled at Darwin and his theory of evolution in the nineteenth century continue to this day.
The nineteenth century invented the familiar terms “pure” and “applied” science as a way of reconciling these alternative understandings.
In the middle of the nineteenth century, Japan became the first Asian country to embrace globalization, and to borrow successfully from the world without losing its uniqueness.
The Cycles of Economic DiscontentFLORENCE – The nineteenth century was mesmerized by the cyclical behavior of business.
China may have largely missed the Industrial Revolution in the nineteenth century.
The US experienced debt crises periodically during the nineteenth century, and again during the Great Depression.
To lay the foundation for a future based on ideas and invention, businesses and governments should consider how new products and methods emerged in some of history’s most innovative economies: the United Kingdom and the US as early as 1820, and Germany and France later in the nineteenth century.
In the nineteenth century, the delicate balance of power between European powers and the crumbling Ottoman fringe gave rise to the “Eastern Question.”
Some of the wealth comes from new business ventures; but two of the five are a duke and an earl whose ancestors owned the fields across which London expanded in the nineteenth century.
In the nineteenth century, the United States restricted foreign investment in several sectors, including finance.
The Brotherhood has effectively assumed a role similar to that of left-wing European political parties in the nineteenth century.
The system that would be most appropriate for Tunisia and Egypt is basic capitalism – capitalism 1.0 – such as Britain and America developed in the first half of the nineteenth century on their way to having highly successful economies.
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