This book is for anyone seeking a succinct and accessible treatment of the most pivotal financial and monetary policies throughout American history from 1650-1950. But it is especially written for those who desire an intricate and detailed knowledge of how and why these policies worked with respect to the supply of adequate credit for economic development. A thorough examination of key credit institutions and their specific powers, functions, mechanisms, context, and economic impact brings the reader to a recognition of which policies and institutions were successful and unsuccessful in supporting the economy and preventing crisis. Its extensive use of primary sources, period literature, and carefully chosen quotations allows the reader to participate in the original discussion and issues that faced Americans in each era. This vivid account leads to a unique grasp of relationships between essential facts, ideas, and time periods. The reader is rewarded with the rare experience of seeing the evolution of three hundred years of policy development as an integrated process. The book’s content will be new and provoking to the academic, policy maker, and economist, but is presented in a manner and style ensuring comprehension for a general audience and those new to the topics involved. Many of the lessons learned in the course of the investigation are relevant and applicable to modern economic and financial policies.
This book is for anyone seeking a succinct and accessible treatment of the most pivotal financial and monetary policies throughout American history from 1650-1950. But it is especially written for those who desire an intricate and detailed knowledge of how and why these policies worked with respect to the supply of adequate credit for economic development. A thorough examination of key credit institutions and their specific powers, functions, mechanisms, context, and economic impact brings the reader to a recognition of which policies and institutions were successful and unsuccessful in supporting the economy and preventing crisis. Its extensive use of primary sources, period literature, and carefully chosen quotations allows the reader to participate in the original discussion and issues that faced Americans in each era. This vivid account leads to a unique grasp of relationships between essential facts, ideas, and time periods. The reader is rewarded with the rare experience of seeing the evolution of three hundred years of policy development as an integrated process. The book’s content will be new and provoking to the academic, policy maker, and economist, but is presented in a manner and style ensuring comprehension for a general audience and those new to the topics involved. Many of the lessons learned in the course of the investigation are relevant and applicable to modern economic and financial policies.
A selection of the abstract paintings by contemporary American painter Marilyn Kirsch. Includes an essay by Michael Cook. 80 pages with 34 color illustrations.
How do companies survive when the basic conditions for their existence can change overnight? The question has a newly revived and essential actuality as a result of the recent world economic crisis. The fall of the Berlin Wall on November 9, 1989, and the launch of the German Economic, Monetary, and Social Union on July 1, 1990, radically changed economic conditions for more than 8,000 previously state-, municipal-, or party-owned companies in the former German Democratic Republic (GDR). Overnight, most East German manufacturing plants had been devalued, after having been able to survive for decades thanks to a protected market in the East. For East German companies, the monetary union meant "the introduction of a social market economy without a market," as described by Birgit Breuel, president of the world's largest holding company, the Treuhand agency. In a move without historical precedent and under considerable political pressure, Treuhand privatized 15,000 companies. Many of these companies did not survive. But for several hundred medium-sized and small businesses, the market economy provided a real upturn, and, for about one hundred companies, it opened doors to previously unimaginable opportunities. Today, several of these firms are brand or market leaders in Germany, or even globally. How did these companies succeed? For an answer, this book visits 15 of these companies in various industries and evaluates the strategies they used to survive or, more importantly, become dominant players. Succeeding in a Transition Economy examines what they did differently from the companies that failed.
This volume presents self-contained survey articles on modern research areas written by experts in their fields. The topics are located at the interface of spectral theory, theory of partial differential operators, stochastic analysis, and mathematical physics. The articles are accessible to graduate students and researches from other fields of mathematics or physics while also being of value to experts, as they report on the state of the art in the respective fields.
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