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Systems Thinking for Energy and the Economy: Size and Structure
In Chapter 5 the book shifts from exploring data trends and stories to a synthesis of how the trends relate to each other. The chapter begins by...
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Election Pledge Fulfilment Under Minority Government
This chapter explores the pledges made by Fine Gael and Fianna Fáil at the 2016 election, measures how far these were implemented and also aims to...
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Experiments in Crash Postponement: 1927/29 Versus 2016/18
The onset of a growth cycle slowdown accompanied by some falls in speculative temperatures induced the Yellen Fed in 2016 to turn up monetary...
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Bridging the 49th Parallel: A Case Study in Art as Cultural Diplomacy
A forgotten experiment in the history of Canadian cultural diplomacy initiatives, 49th Parallel: Centre for Contemporary Canadian Art employed fine...
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Per Aspera Ad Astra (1910–1917)
Sitting at his desk in Queen’s College at Oxford in England, Edwin Hubble studied with grave intensity the telegram in his hand. It was from his...
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The Deficit Debate: Content Studies
This chapter examines how the British national press and public service broadcasting reported on the debate over the rise in the public deficit in...
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The Future of the Blockchain
History is littered with predictions that have proved to be spectacularly wrong. In 1876, William Orton, President of Western Union said ‘This...
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A Life of Experimental Economics, Volume II The Next Fifty Years
This sequel to A Life of Experimental Economics, Volume I,continues the intimate history of Vernon Smith’s personal and professional maturation...
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RealtyShares: Nav Athwal
Nav Athwal started his career as an engineer, so his early work experience was in technology rather than real estate. He worked as an electrical...
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The Rise and Fall of British Finance
This chapter examines the background to the Great Financial Crisis of 2008. It focuses on how since 1979 regulatory and tax policies introduced by...
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Strategic Identity Orientation
This chapter draws attention to a fundamental question that minority entrepreneurs ask themselves: “Who am I?” A key insight is that their...
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Barack Obama, the Idealistic Realist, 2009–2017, Part II: Europe, Latin America, Africa, and Global Problems
Barack Obama entered the White House intending to emulate the more realistic foreign policy philosophy of the first President Bush without abandoning...
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Much Ruin in Japan’s Journey to 2%
How much more prosperous would Japan now be if it had been under a sound money regime for the past half-century rather than importing unstable US...
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Money as a Tool of the State
Contemporary culture takes its mature but most dangerous form in the years following the financial crash of 2007–09. There is no shared vision of how...
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The Six Robbers of Wealth and How to Avoid Them
In Investing Strategies for the High Net Worth Investor, I stressed that the only dollars that were material to long-term success were those that...
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Epilogue: Pathways to Integration
Efforts to revive British trade from the late 1950s were unsuccessful except during short bursts of Argentine economic growth. The British sector of...
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Who’s Missing? Undercounting and Underreporting
The proportion of residents missed in the census has declined with each recent census, but it is still too high. Through demographic analysis,...
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Main Weaknesses in the American Economic Power
Since the end of the 1940s, gradual, cree**, and important weaknesses have affected the great economic mechanism of the US. There was a rapidly...
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Financial Crises and Bubbles
Since financial bubbles and crises are rare events, modern empirical evidence on these phenomena is very limited. Economic history has therefore been...
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The What, How, and Why of Bottom-Up Rebuilding and Recovery After Natural Disasters
The federal government plays a prominent role in post-disaster response and assistance in the United States. Research on post-disaster recovery,...