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The evolution of fair value accounting in the USA: a critical examination of its progress since 1900
Nouri, Hossein; Pannone, Daniel - In: International Journal of Critical Accounting 2 (2010) 2, pp. 191-209
bodies until recently. This paper investigates the evolution of fair value accounting in the USA and shows that several …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008755466
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Semi-feudalism, migration and the state in Guyana.
G, Standing - International Labour Organization (ILO), United Nations - 1979
ILO pub-wep pub. Working paper on semi-feudalism, migration and government policy in Guyana - covers historical background of forced labour, immigrant and contract labour, transition to free labour, obstacles to agricultural development, land tenure, wage policy, labour policy, effects of...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010965993
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History Institutions and Economic Performance: The Legacy of Colonial Land Tenure Systems in India
Banerjee, Abhijit; Iyer, Lakshmi - eSocialSciences - 2010
This paper analyze the colonial institutions set up by the British to collect land revenue in India, and show that differences in historical property rights institutions lead to sustained differences in economic outcomes. Areas in which proprietary rights in land were historically given to...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10008455419
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Land and labor reallocation in pre-modern Japan : a case of a northeastern village in 1720-1870
Arimoto, Yutaka; Kurosu, Satomi - Institute of Developing Economies, Japan External Trade … - 2015
In agricultural societies, adjusting land and labor according to changes of labor endowment that result from family life cycle events is premised on making full use of resources for each farming household and for the economy as a whole. This paper examines how and how well households in...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011234992
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Global economic crisis 2007–2010: Is it really so recent? Implications for the future from the lessons of economic history
Salavrakos, Ioannis-Dionysios - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 3 (2011) 6, pp. 655-683
This paper demonstrates that the current economic crisis has its roots in the evolution of the global economy during the 1960s. The gradual increase of US debt from the 1960s accompanied by the deficit in the US trade balance due to international competition from EU, Japan, and later from China...
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10009352458
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Looking backwards and living forwards: the EMU and the history of monetary unions in Western Europe
Barbezat, Daniel - In: International Journal of Economics and Business Research 2 (2010) 1/2, pp. 10-30
European monetary history prior to 1950 presents many attempts at international monetary coordination, but none were as …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10010669631
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Bank Regulation in the United States
Barth, James R.; Phumiwasana, Triphon; Lu, Wenling - In: CESifo DICE Report 6 (2008) 3, pp. 3-8
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005056429
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Making famine history
Gráda, Cormac Ó - School of Economics, University College Dublin - 2007
This paper reviews recent contributions to the economics and economic history of famine. It provides a context for the … history of famine in the twentieth century, which is unique. During the century, war and totalitarianism produced more famine … for "making famine history." …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10011269455
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History of economics, economics and economic history in Britain, 1824 - 2000
Backhouse, Roger - In: The European Journal of the History of Economic Thought 11 (2004) 1, pp. 107-127
This paper tells the story of the field of the history of economic thought in relation to the changing boundaries … between the disciplines of economics and economic history. The most important period was the late nineteenth century when …, after a couple of decades during which both economists and historians took an interest in the history of economic ideas …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005505397
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D.P. O'Brien's Contribution to the History of Economic Analysis.
Creedy, J. - Department of Economics, Faculty of Business and Economics - 1999
This paper describes in broad terms the contribution to the history of economic analysis that Denis O'Brien has made. …
Persistent link: https://www.econbiz.de/10005574841