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1. The Great Recession & the Great Depression

Subjects
Great Depression, 1929-1934 -- History -- Comparative analysis, Global Economic Crisis, 2008-2010 -- History -- Comparative analysis, Economic recovery -- History -- Comparative analysis, Depressions -- Comparative analysis, United States economic conditions -- History -- Comparative analysis, Recessions -- Comparative analysis -- United States, Humanities
Abstract

In the depths of the Great Depression, John Maynard Keynes wrote that '[p]ractical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influence, are usually the slaves of [...]

Published
2010

2. Women and men's employment and unemployment in the great recession

Subjects
Unemployment -- Comparative analysis -- United States, United States economic conditions -- Comparative analysis, Recessions -- Comparative analysis -- United States, Family and marriage, Women's issues/gender studies
Abstract

Unemployment by Marital Status Figure 13 shows that women who maintain families without a spouse present are more than twice as likely as married women or men to be unemployed [...]

Published
2010

3. Women and men's employment and unemployment in the great recession

Author

Hartmann, Heidi, English, Ashley, and Hayes, Jeffrey

Subjects
Unemployment -- Comparative analysis -- United States, Labor supply -- Comparative analysis, Recessions -- Comparative analysis -- United States, Family and marriage, Women's issues/gender studies
Abstract

EXECUTIVE SUMMARY Since December 2007, the U.S. economy has been in the worst recession since the Great Depression of the 1930s. Because much of the slowdown has occurred in traditionally [...]

Published
2010

4. My inflation nightmare: am I crazy, or is the commentariat ignoring our biggest economic threat?

Author

Kinsley, Michael

Subjects
Public debts -- Comparative analysis, United States economic conditions -- Evaluation, Recessions -- Comparative analysis -- United States, General interest, News, opinion and commentary
Abstract

RIGHT-WING TALK RADIO these days is carrying fewer commercials for second mortgages. (Consolidate your debts, lower your monthly payments, and have enough left over for that dream vacation!) They've been [...]

Published
2010

5. A ladder to nowhere: why WWII-level deficits won't work today

Author

Wilson, Andrew B.

Subjects
Great Depression, 1929-1934, Budget deficits -- Management, United States economic conditions, Recessions -- Comparative analysis -- United States, Budget -- Management, Domestic economic assistance -- Analysis, News, opinion and commentary, Company business management, Management, Economic aspects, Analysis, Comparative analysis
Abstract

THE STORY IS TOLD OF THREE SCIENTISTS stuck at the bottom of a deep well. The physicist is forced to admit that none of the laws of physics will lift [...]

Published
2009

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