During the 1920s emigration from Scotland exceeded the natural growth of population. Yet relatively little attention has been paid to the mechanisms of relocation, the regional and occupational origins and destinations of the emigrants or their demographic profile. This article draws on the recently ...
It covers local and global politics, social issues, economic problems and disputes. en.wikipedia.org Solvent burning is a significant economic factor in the oxidation process. en.wikipedia.org The 1970s also saw economic turmoil, resulting in stagflation and labor unrest. ...
Even within the area of social and economic rights, there are important distinctions among issues. Disaggregating social and economic rights is a first step toward understanding the conditions facilitating progressive policy change. This paper distinguishes between policies that advance women's rights as ...
Great Depression: breadlineBreadline in New York City's Bryant Park during the Great Depression.(more) The most devastating impact of the Great Depression was human suffering. In a short period of time, world output and standards of living dropped precipitously. As much as one-fourth of the ...
During the final decades of the 20th century Keynes' crucial message and his distrust of the anarchy of markets were forgotten in favor of a much more thoroughgoing liberalism (that is, an absolute trust in the self-regulating forces of the market), primarily in the USA and Britain. At the...
While originating as an idea in the 1920s, it came to the fore during the 1980s in the politics and domestic policies of the Margaret Thatcher government in the UK, and the Ronald Reagan administration in the US. Later it was ‘exported’ to developing countries through the Washington ...
The costs and benefits of climate change mitigation are known to be distributed unevenly across time and space, while their intergenerational distribution across nations has not been evaluated. Here, we analyze the lifetime costs and benefits of climate
The discussion simmered away during the 1920s and early 1930s, underwent a decisive rise in temperature between 1934 and 1938, and continued with some final sparks until 1944. The paper illustrates the methodological and analytical issues and the measurement-theoretic problems, as well as the ...
during the 1980s resumed in 2000, employers were concluding that health care markets as a ‘conception of control’ could not hold down costs and were losing faith in it (Freudenheim2000). Like leaders in some other countries, they may start to search for a new conception of control, one...
There are also many international economic collapses that have occurred throughout history. TheSoviet Union, Latin America,Greece, and Argentina have all made headlines in this regard. In the cases of Greece and Argentina, both economic collapses were brought about by severe issues with sovereign de...