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Introduction: the struggle over Cold War rationality -- Enlightenment reason, Cold War rationality, and the rule of … rules -- The bounded rationality of Cold War operations research -- Saving the planet from nuclear weapons and the human … mind -- "The situation" in the Cold War behavioral sciences -- World in a matrix -- The collapse of Cold War rationality …
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This volume examines the major trends in public finance in developed capitalist countries since the oil crisis of 1973. That year's oil shock quickly became an economic crisis, putting an end to a period of very high growth rates and an era of easy finance. Tax protests and growing welfare costs...
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The year 1873 was one of financial crisis. A boom in railway construction had spurred a bull market-but when the boom turned to bust, transatlantic panic quickly became a worldwide economic downturn. In Transatlantic Speculations, Hannah Catherine Davies offers a new lens on the panics of 1873...
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U.K., Japan, France and Germany with respect to the United States is conducted. The resulting conclusion is that real …
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Why do stock and housing markets sometimes experience amazing booms followed by massive busts and why is this happening more and more frequently? In order to answer these questions, William Quinn and John D. Turner take us on a riveting ride through the history of financial bubbles, visiting,...
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