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• The German twin crisis of 1931 AI翻译
  作者：Schnabel, I
  摘要：Using information on banks' balance sheets, I analyze the causal links between the banking and currency problems in the German crisis of 1931. I find that the crisis had two independent causes: Political shocks triggered a run on the Reichsmark; and the excessive risk-taking by banks that were too big to fail led to a run on banks. Due to the high level of foreign debt in the banking system, the run on the currency and the deposit withdrawals reinforced each other in a vicious circle and resul...
• Places of their own: African American Suburbanization in the twentieth century AI翻译
  作者：George Mason University
• Saving the whales: Lessons from the extinction of the Eastern Arctic Bowhead AI翻译
  作者：University of Oxford; Queens University - Canada; Queens University - Canada
  摘要：In this article we investigate the possibility that a regulatory regime designed to maximize the profitability of the early Dutch whaling industry could have simultaneously guaranteed the biological sustainability of the eastern Arctic Bowhead whale. We find that policies with economic profit as the sole objective could have saved the whales, as well as increasing the incomes of the whalers, under assumptions commonly made in fisheries models. However, the necessary assumptions are implausible...
• New deal for the forgotten man? Wages, unions and the distribution of transitory and permanent employment during the interwar period AI翻译
  作者：Brigham Young University
• Financial markets and the depression of 1837 to 1843 AI翻译
  作者：University System of Maryland; University of Maryland College Park
• Self-reliance before the welfare state: Evidence from the charity organization movement in the United States AI翻译
  作者：Roosevelt University
  摘要：If replacing welfare with private charity has increased the self-reliance of the poor, the benefits would be observed in the charity organization movement of the late nineteenth century. Inebriation would subside, the heart would be cheered, earnings would rise, the broken would be complete, dependence would wither, and the classes would converge. If the benefits were large, they would have been large in Indianapolis-the beacon of charity in a Coasean landscape. The hypotheses are tested in ha...
• Labour's first century. AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Berkeley
• The price of progress: Public services, taxation, and the American corporate state, 1877 to 1929. AI翻译
  作者：University of California System; University of California Riverside; University of Michigan System; University of Michigan
• The claims of kinfolk: African American property and community in the nineteenth-century South. AI翻译
  作者：University of North Carolina; University of North Carolina Greensboro
• State of the union: A century of American labor. AI翻译
  作者：Bucknell University