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Piketty argues that this has been the historical norm, except during the tumultuous first half of the twentieth century.
By the early twentieth century, the United States was a global leader in public schooling.
In the middle of the twentieth century, people feared that computers and new means of communications would create the kind of central governmental control dramatized in George Orwell’s 1984.
The Sino-Russian alliance in the twentieth century was a product of China’s weakness following World War II and at the beginning of the Cold War – and, even then, it lasted little more than a decade.
I believe that it is obsolete, pedagogically disastrous, and ignores the tremendous scientific advances of the twentieth century.
Were we still living in the twentieth century, the fact that an ecological fuel tax prompted people to don yellow vests (which all motorists in France are required to carry in their vehicles) and take to the streets would not be particularly remarkable.
That argues against American overreaction, which could fuel the kind of self-reinforcing downward spiral in bilateral relations that occurred between Great Britain and Germany prior to the conflagrations of the first half of the twentieth century.
The personal-saving rate stood at just 3.7% in August 2012 – up from the 1.5% low of 2005, but half the 7.5% average recorded in the last three decades of the twentieth century.
And, while the personal saving rate rose to 5% of disposable income in the first half of 2011 from the rock-bottom 1.2% low hit in mid-2005, this is far short of the nearly 8% norm that prevailed during the last 30 years of the twentieth century.
Many will condemn this as a resurgence of “eugenics,” the view, especially popular in the early twentieth century, that hereditary traits should be improved through active intervention.
Unlike in the US, where federal public spending grew as a consequence of the creation of new expenditure programs throughout the twentieth century, public spending was already high at the national level when Europe began to integrate.
Nineteenth- and twentieth- century anti-Semites assumed that a Jew was always a Jew, no matter what he or she professed to believe.
The political implications recall the experience of the twentieth century, when the pound’s external value was a national obsession in the UK and currency crises regularly destroyed the credibility of governments and wreaked political havoc.
As in the twentieth century, this economic breakdown is likely to destroy the credibility of Prime Minister David Cameron’s Conservative government.
Putin once said that “the greatest geopolitical catastrophe of the twentieth century was the fall of the Soviet Union.”
This great twentieth century myth has now been shattered.
This was particularly true in the twentieth century, when, in the wake of two world wars, the United States and the Soviet Union replaced the European world powers on the global stage.
During the twentieth century, racial persecution, political oppression, and the ravages of two world wars became the predominant causes of flight.
Simon Kuznets, one of the twentieth century’s great economists, was a pioneer of human-capital theory.
A look at the historical experience of the Jews shows that while most Jews were mired in poverty at the beginning of the twentieth century, over time they tended to do disproportionately well in societies that allowed them to compete on an equal basis.
In the early twentieth century, salt iodization began in Switzerland and has since been implemented across the world.
More Africans have become telecommunications users in the last four years than in the entire twentieth century.
The true Che was a more significant figure than his fictional clone, for he was the incarnation of what revolution and Marxism really meant in the twentieth century.
In the second half of the twentieth century, Europe had the chance to build a much more benevolent form of regionalism.
In the face of the totalitarian challenges of fascism and communism in the twentieth century, Europe and the United States have become aware that the rule of law, separation of powers, and democracy decisively determine foreign policy and matter greatly from the point of view of international security.
Its proponents forget the experience of the first half of the twentieth century, when authoritarian modernization was tried in both Germany and Russia –with disastrous results.
For a few decades in the second half of the twentieth century, the West’s dominant position was challenged by the Soviet Union and China.
For hundreds of millions of citizens in Communist-run countries in the twentieth century, the “me” in the question was a dictator or oligarchy ruling with totalitarian or authoritarian powers.
Yet discoveries made during the latter part of the twentieth century have shown that there is much more to inheritance than DNA.
Du Bois, the most important black intellectual of the twentieth century, to Ghana in 1961.
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