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Healthy People, Healthy Cities, Healthy EconomiesOXFORD – The forces that drove the growth of European and North American cities in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries are now driving urbanization in Brazil, China, India, Mexico, Russia, and other emerging-market countries.
Such states are vulnerable, and the past is littered with small and successful globalizers that lost out because of power politics: the Italian city states of the Renaissance, the Dutch Republic, or, in the twentieth century, Lebanon and Kuwait.
The story of presidential elections in the twentieth century goes like this: if a foreign observer had only the following two pieces of data: 1. economic growth during the electoral year and 2. the name of the incumbent president, the observer could foresee with precision the results of presidential elections, independently of the entire campaign.
When Russia’s former president and current prime minister, Vladimir Putin, declared several years ago that the greatest disaster of the twentieth century was the demise of the Soviet Union, he didn’t just speak for himself but arguably for the majority of Russia’s political elite.
This innovation, which was dependent on high-security paper-making and printing techniques, transformed the twentieth century.
Instead of moderate inflation, most of the twentieth century was wildly inflationary, as governments over-issued currency.
In the last two decades of the twentieth century, however, an intellectual revolution occurred.
Defenders of these ill-fated cross-border takeovers worry that a sinister whiff of the twentieth century’s worst moments is in the air.
Instead, many Europeans are following populist banners back toward the nationalism and isolationism of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
If China sees inviolable state sovereignty as the foundation of twenty-first century international affairs, as now appears to be the case, then it must explain why this principle will not lead to the same disastrous consequences as it did in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.
A shared enemy did underpin America’s alliance with parts of Europe over much of the twentieth century.
Although technologists mark this as a signal event of the twentieth century, it initially seemed a real blow for chess professionals.
If one belongs to a generation that regarded Israel as one of the great achievements of the twentieth century, and admired the way in which the country provided a proud home for the persecuted and downtrodden, one is particularly concerned that it may now be at risk.
In classic business-cycle theory, a boom is initiated by a clutch of inventions – power looms and spinning jennies in the eighteenth century, railways in the nineteenth century, automobiles in the twentieth century.
Without doubt, it is one of the iconic images of the twentieth century.
History is not particularly encouraging when it comes to adjusting to profound changes – new actors and shifting balances of power – as the twentieth century tragically and repeatedly demonstrated.
When South Korea was ruled by military strongmen, Korean collaboration with Japanese colonial rule in the first half of the twentieth century was not discussed – partly because some of those strongmen, notably the late Park Chung Hee, had been collaborators themselves.
Governments will have to intervene to set these standards, as they did during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to improve abysmal conditions in factories.
Japan's emergence as East Asia's leading power in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries involved three brutal wars in China, in which the Japanese army committed dreadful atrocities.
Household debt stood at 112% of income in the third quarter of 2012 – down from record highs in 2006, but still nearly 40 percentage points above the 75% norm of the last three decades of the twentieth century.
In the second half of the twentieth century, a stable pattern emerged in most developed countries, with power alternating between center-right and center-left parties.
It was only in the late twentieth century that careful study of the motion of normal, visible matter revealed the gravitational influence of lots of otherwise invisible stuff.
But, by the time supermarkets started to enter the retail sector in the second half of the twentieth century, European governments’ approach had changed.
The last challenge can be stated as a question that is rarely posed: Is China’s political system an obstacle to renminbi internationalization?The pound sterling and the dollar, the principal international and reserve currencies of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries respectively, were issued by democracies.
In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, the Liberal Party, not Labour, was the Conservatives’ main rival in the UK, thriving under the leadership of figures like William Gladstone and David Lloyd George.
The Pope and the PartyALBERTA – As the twentieth century neared, Pope Leo XIII, grieving for humanity’s choice between atheistic socialism and venal liberalism, commissioned Catholic intellectuals to devise a better solution.
As Catholic social doctrine until the late twentieth century, Corporatism still shapes constitutions, laws, and attitudes throughout the world.
This was not true in the twentieth century, when major innovations in leading sectors such as automobiles required large investments of risk capital.
It ranks, I believe, just below the Bolshevik Revolution of 1917 and the start of Hitler’s War in 1939 as the most critical moment of the twentieth century.
Economists’ New World OrderMost academic economics rely on concepts laid down at the beginning of the twentieth century by the British economist Alfred Marshall, who said that “nature does not make leaps.”
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