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Contends that the central problem of the U.S. economy has been for some years now, and for the foreseeable future will continue to be, the slowdown in the growth of living standards. This decline began in the early 1970s, was masked by a resort to overseas borrowing in the early 1980s, and now threatens to get worse in the years immediately ahead as the foreign debt bills come due.

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This book examines the early American cotton industry through British perspectives.

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This work describes the activities of a handful of American companies and about eighty American captains who were trying to run ships on China's great river during the treacherous days between the two world wars.

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In 1900 the manufacture of rubber products in the United States was concentrated in several hundred small plants around New York and Boston that employed low-paid immigrant workers with no intervention from unions. By the mid-1930s, thanks to the automobile and the Depression, production was concentrated in Ohio, the labor force was largely native

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Challenging conventional wisdom, this work argues that the US federal government, not the private sector, created the dynamic New Economy. It aims to help readers who want to discover the causal factors that created the conditions for the unprecedented economic boom of the 1990s.

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This work covers trade policy from 1923 to 1995 taking the history of American tariffs from the Prelude to Trade Wars to the present. Cordell Hull and the Reciprocal Trade Agreements of the 1930s are discussed along with the increase in trade revenue from these agreements.

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While biographical information on many of the women is readily available in other sources, this is a handy compilation, especially for identifying material on contemporary women administrators. It would be appropriate in larger public libraries and academic libraries, especially those that focus on women's studies. Library Journal

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The world trading envionment changed dramatically in the 1980s. America's trade balance declined sharply, while Japan, Germany, and the newly industrialized countries of Asia built up large, continuing surpluses.

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This history and analysis examines 15 great inflations including Ancient Rome, the French Revolution, post-World War I Germany and modern-day Brazil, aiming to provide an understanding of the causes of inflation. The author argues that the belief in a constant value of money is erroneous.

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This new handbook and guide to the contemporary U.S. financial services industry is must reading for industry professioonals and an essential resource for the public they serve.

Individual chapters describe how the financial services industry developed, where it is today, and what it will be like in the next decade.

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How did the US financial crisis snowball into USD 15 trillion global losses This book offers a clear synthesis and original analysis of the various factors that led to the financial crisis of 2007-2010, and is intended as a supplementary course text for undergraduate and postgraduate students in finance or finance-related courses.

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This volume, from the 1956 Conference, deals with the nature, reliability, and the uses of the income data included in the 1950 census. It contrasts this data with income information from other sources--field surveys, and administrative records of government regulatory, fiscal, and social security agencies. Another group of papers deals with substa

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An economic study of income distribution and employment.

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The case study method of teaching is a widely used educational technique in advanced learning situations, such as professional training.