... Jacqueline Best global financial crisis Great Recession democracy economics monetary policy finance unemployment Keynesian economics Milton Friedman Ronald Reagan Margaret Thatcher neoliberalism regulation 291 Ten years after the 2008 financial crisis threat-ened to bring the global...

...Patricia Clavin The modern, globalized economy had emerged with vigor and reach in the nineteenth century, but was no more a guarantor of domestic or world peace after 1918 than it had been in 1914. Patricia clavin economic economics consequences peace economy world war one Europe...

.... In an extension of this argument, Tooze debunks the view that it was postwar Europe s reversion to Old World practices that con- tributed to the economic and political col- lapse of the early 1930s. Those troubles, he argues, stemmed from the uncooperative behav- ior and irresponsible policies of American...

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...Matthew M. Taylor Given a trifecta of ill tidings—street protests, corruption scandals, and economic worries—perhaps the most surprising news is Dilma's resilience as a candidate for reelection. © 2014 Current History. All rights reserved. 2014 The Regents of the University of California...

... financial crisis South Africa Kenya Senegal Ghana economics poverty institutions oil 193 Near-term prospects for the region s economies are encouraging when one con- siders the enormous shocks of the recent crisis and the depth of the global down- turn. African Economies New Resilience peteR...

...Hossein Askari Petroleum revenues, which theoretically should have supported economic prosperity, have in practice fueled regional conflicts, supported corruption, [and] created economic injustice. … © 2009 Current History. All rights reserved. 2009 The Regents of the University of California...