Provides information on the institutional history of rent control in the U.S. Views of state and federal governments throughout 1920s and 1940s on rent control; Participation of tenants in New York City in rent strikes in ...
Some wealthy corporations soon became rent-seekers, reinforcing Henry Clay's idea of state-assisted industrialization. Historian Charles A. Beard wrote that government gifts tended to go to the largest investments.5Ironically, two influential names in American corporate history,John Rockefellerand Andrew ...
The definition of "pornography" is famously subjective. After all, one man's Venus de Milo is another man's masturbation aid. But researchers generally define the genre as material designed solely for sexual arousal, without further artistic merit. By that standard, the first known erotic represe...
Prostitution, the practice of engaging in relatively indiscriminate sexual activity, in general with someone who is not a spouse or a friend, in exchange for immediate payment in money or other valuables. Learn more about the history of prostitution in t
In the case of keiretsu especially, this rent seeking probably retarded financial development and created long-term economic problems. 展开 关键词: ownership control zaibatsu pyramids keiretsu corporate groups financial development political economy
The Victorian era was the period in British history between about 1820 and 1914, corresponding roughly to the period of Queen Victoria’s reign (1837–1901). It was characterized by a class-based society, a growing number of people able to vote, a growin
Encounters betweenegalitarian societiesand complex, unequal ones led people in the latter to consider a basic income more than once. Thomas Paine, an intellectual architect of the American Revolution, proposed that a "ground rent" of £15 be paid to every individual upon turning 21, followed by...
Then I went to work for a very long time indeed, then all of a sudden I didn’t. Taking early retirement aged 59 some ten years ago, subsequently taking to the roads, streets and hills of Britain in search of nothing in particular. In recent years there has been a rapid development ...
There are a number of Silverlight 4 features integrated into Silverlight DRM that can be used to implement offline scenarios including purchase and download, rentals, and subscriptions. For more information, seeDigital Rights Management (DRM). ...
1966 July 5 - To finance the settlement of a transit strike, subway and bus fares increase from 15 cents to 20 cents.1967 July 6 - The Ford Foundation grants $135,000 to three school districts to experiment with "community control" in East Harlem, the Lower East Side, and Ocean Hill-...