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After the war, the world spent 10 years attempting to get back on to the gold standard.
This was true not only one country at a time, but also for all countries together that were trying to re-establish the gold standard.
Between 1931 and 1936, almost all gold-standard countries were driven off of the gold standard by financial panics, usually spreading from one country to the next in a ricochet effect.
In the end, no country on the gold standard was immune.
The crisis was relieved only many years later, in almost all cases after a country had abandoned the gold standard and was thereby free to reverse the contractionary financial policies of the early 1930s.
The gold standard, combined with investor panic, produced such a simultaneous contraction.
Fortunately, we no longer have an international gold standard today.
High inflation in the US highlighted the exchange-rate problem by showing the instability of the dollar standard.
Alternatively, are they willing to face the pain of “internal” devaluation, a process that failed under the gold standard and is failing under the euro?
Under WTO rules, however, pricing below costs on the part of exporters is sufficient for imposing import duties, even when it is standard competitive practice – such as during economic downturns.
The standard way to judge the efficacy of a vaccine is to conduct a trial in which those who could benefit are randomly assigned to two groups, one of which receives the potentially beneficial vaccine, while the other receives a substance with no active ingredients, known as a placebo.
That means the standard twice-yearly checks of compliance with the EU’s Stability and Growth Pact, as performed by the European Commission under the so-called European Semester procedure.
In a democracy, standard restrictions regulate the time, place, and manner of speech in order to prevent imminent violence and civil disorder.
It is a big problem, for the standard sources that I was taught as a child to rely upon – newspapers and television news – are breaking down.
Mankiw’s standard description of outsourcing is very much like mine – indeed, like that of all neoclassical and neoliberal economists – and goes something like this:As with any change in technology that increases the volume of international trade in goods and services, the outsourcing of service-sector jobs creates winners and losers – but almost surely more and bigger winners than losers.
But was there any sign of the standard economic analysis of outsourcing in their stories?
One major factor that induced excessive risk-taking is that firms’ standard pay arrangements reward executives for short-term gains, even when those gains are subsequently reversed.
Poor regions want to use federal resources to ensure that their residents have a minimum standard of living; richer regions want to invest money in industrial development, hoping such development will spark a revival that lifts the entire economy.
It is as if German political elites think that they are back in the era of the gold standard.
A pure gold standard is a variant of this type of regime.
The standard boom-and-bust cycle provides a plausible interpretation: incumbents could win elections only so long as commodity revenues remained high.
The standard treatment for TB is unacceptably antiquated.
Second, policymakers and health-care providers must transform the standard response to TB to make it more equitable, rights-based, non-discriminatory, and people-centered, not just in health settings but also in workplaces, schools, and jails.
This is the standard we should set, and it will be a great moment indeed when it is universally adopted.
This was not a middle class modeled on North Atlantic precedents, and its members’ status is precarious and reversible; moreover, their standard of living is well below that of their counterparts in wealthier countries.
In 1930, at the height of the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes declared that the standard of living in “progressive economies” would increase 4-8 times over the subsequent 100 years.
She usually had a strong grasp of issues relating to the standard of living; and yet she failed to comprehend the impact that a new poll tax would have on household budgets.
Though Congress must guard against repeating its disastrous mistake in 2003, when it supported the war in Iraq, the commitment to promote human rights that the US made following September 11, 1973, seems a more appropriate standard for weighing Obama’s proposal for US military action in Syria.
According to the Coldwell Banker Home Price Comparison Index, which compares the price of a standard 2,200 square-foot four-bedroom house across cities, the most expensive city in the US is Beverly Hills (the legendary home of movie stars).
The standard home there is 4.25 times as expensive as one in an average city in the US.
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