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3 unusual facts about Economy


Economy

Bankers like Amschel Mayer Rothschild (1773–1855) started to finance national projects such as wars and infrastructure.

Frank Fetter

...while reading Fetter's oeuvre in the course of writing my Man, Economy, and State...

Jože Mencinger

In May 1990, he was appointed Minister of Economy in the first democratically elected Slovenian government.


2000–01 A.C. Fiorentina season

Although respectability in the league was upheld by goalkeeper Francesco Toldo, playmaker Rui Costa and striker Enrico Chiesa, both Toldo and Rui Costa departed for the Milanese clubs in the summer of 2001, as president Vittorio Cecchi Gori desperately tried to save a collapsing economy.

A.L.A. catalog

He tried to obtain suggestion from Columbia faculty members through their lectures on “bibliography and literature in their areas of expertise” when the School of Library Economy was established in 1887, and later Dewey moved to University of the State of New York in 1888, where he continued his work on catalog by asking his library employees and students in Albany to compile the catalog through scholarly journals.

Abendland

Pinkerton compared Abendland to the works of other Austrian directors Ulrich Seidl and Michael Glawogger in how they show "under-the-hood images of the global economy’s workings".

Alonzo Potter

He edited many reprints and collections of sermons and lectures, and wrote: Political Economy (with Johann Ludwig Tellkampf, New York, 1840), The Principles of Science applied to the Domestic and Mechanic Arts (1841), Handbook for Readers and Students (1843), and Religious Philosophy (1870).

Automotive engineering

Engine performance is looking for maximum displacement (bigger, more power), while fuel economy is looking for a smaller displacement engine (ex: 1.4 L vs. 5.4 L).

Bram Peper

After finishing the HBS, Peper studied social sciences at the University of Amsterdam until 1965 and economy and sociology at the University of Oslo (1963/1964) and got his PhD at the Nederlandse Economische Hogeschool (Currently Erasmus University) in 1972.

Brasiléia

Not just consumers are turning to the Bolivian economy, but entrepreneurs as well due to free trade zone of Cobija (the departmental capital of Pando province and Nicolás Suárez).

Carol Pineau

Often lost in the Western World, the truth behind Africa’s growing economy is portrayed in this film through personal struggles and ultimately accomplishments despite current conflicts.

Caserma Ederle

Depending on the availability of housing upon arrival, personnel accompanied by dependents can live in housing quarters, Italian houses rented by the U.S. Government, government-owned housing units, or on the economy.

Chimanimani District

During the Zimbabwe independence war, mountain passes in the Chimanimani area were frequently used by guerilla fighters between Zimbabwe and their camps in Mozambique, who laid mines along local roads to disrupt the local economy.

Community development

With Indian independence, despite the continuing work of Vinoba Bhave in encouraging grassroots land reform, India under its first Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru adopted a mixed-economy approach, mixing elements of socialism and capitalism.During the fifties and sixties, India ran a massive community development programme with focus on rural development activities through government support.

Cyclical theory

The values of Private Interest bear strong resemblance to Adam Smith’s theories of the laissez-faire economy (free market) and also the invisible hand.

Dangerous Corner

Priestley had recently collaborated with Edward Knoblock on the dramatisation of The Good Companions and now wished "to prove that a man might produce long novels and yet be able to write effectively, using the strictest economy, for the stage."

Débora Giorgi

Giorgi left Alpha Economic Studies in 1999 to accept a prominent post as Secretary of Commerce (a sub-Cabinet level position) at the hand of newly elected President Fernando de la Rúa's first Economy Minister, José Luis Machinea.

Drew, Oregon

At one time Drew's economy was based primarily on logging, but in a 2006 study, the federal government identified the Milo-Tiller-Drew area as a "community of concern" because of the negative impact the Northwest Forest Plan had on it.

Economy of Cyprus

In June 2012 the Cypriot finance minister Vassos Shiarly stated that the European Central Bank, European commission and IMF officials are to carry out an in-depth investigation into Cyprus' economy and banking sector to assess the level of funding it requires.

Economy of Limerick

Traditionally Limerick's economy was mainly agricultural of which a lot of industry in the city was based around due to the citys proximity to the Golden Vale.

Economy of Tangier

Tangiers economy is the third biggest of all Moroccan cities, after the economic capital Casablanca and the political capital Rabat.

Economy of Thailand

From 25 November to 3 December 2008 the Yellow Shirts, protesting Somchai Wongsawat's prime ministership, seized the two Bangkok airports (Suvarnabhumi and Don Mueang) and damaged Thailand's image and economy.

Erwin Planck

In August 1939, a group including Prussian Finance Minister Johannes Popitz, Planck, and Reichsbank president Hjalmar Schacht approached General Georg Thomas, head of the Defence Economy and Armament Office asking him to do something to thwart the outbreak of the forthcoming war.

Francis Gurry

International Intellectual Property in an Integrated World Economy, Wolters Kluwer, New York, 2nd edition 2012 (with Frederick M. Abbott and Thomas Cottier), ISBN 978-0-7355-3958-7; 1st edition 2007, ISBN 978-0-7355-3958-7

History of New Zealand

In February 2011, a major earthquake in Christchurch, the nation's second largest city, significantly impacted the national economy and the government formed the Canterbury Earthquake Recovery Authority in response.

John Howkins

In 2006 Howkins became chairman of the John Howkins Research Centre on the Creative Economy, launched by the Shanghai Municipal Government at the Shanghai School of Creativity, Shanghai Theatre Academy.

Kamran Baghirov

Baghirov is often blamed for deterioration of the economy of Azerbaijan which was boosted when his predecessor Heydar Aliyev was in office.

Kostinbrod

The economy of Kostinbrod was largely based on poultry farming and stock breeding during the Communist period, but a number of factories, including a 120,000 m² Coca-Cola one, have emerged in democratic times due to the town's favourable position and the liberal zoning policy of the municipality.

Kuzbass State Technical University

Kuzbass State Technical University (KuzSTU) is one of higher schools which trains specialists for the economy of Kuzbass, Russia.

Lars Stubhaug

Before the 2013-season Stubhaug decide to retire form football to study economy in Bergen.

Louis-Joseph Lebret

He was involved with the drafting the documents Gaudium et Spes, an influential voice in the crafting of Populorum Progressio and a founder of the Économie et Humanisme (Economy and Humanism) movement.

Luggage of the Gods!

When they leave the tribe, they find clothing, cassettes, and counterfeit paintings, which wreak havoc on the power structure and economy of the tribe.

Melton Constable Railway Works

The buildings and operations in the village of Melton Constable from 1883 to 1964 were vital to the village economy and indeed it is known that the village itself was created to house the employees who worked there.

Michael P. Howlett

He was editor of the POLCAN listserver (1995–1997) and English language co-editor of the Canadian Journal of Political Science (2002–2006) and is currently administrative editor of the Canadian Political Science Review (2007–2010), and co-editor of the World Political Science Review, the Journal of Comparative Policy Analysis (Book Review Editor 2001-2006), and the University of Toronto Press Series in Comparative Political Economy and Public Policy.

Mirpur Mathelo

Fauji Fertilizer Company Limited has three plants all over Pakistan and together they are a valuable asset to the economy.

Naseem Rana

In 2005, Dr. Ayesha Siddiqa, one of Pakistan's top military scientist, wrote and published a book, titled "The Military Economy" providing the accounts of his military involvements in Afghanistan.

Nicolás Ruiz Espadero

Cuba was then still a Spanish colony and in all matters of administration, economy and interior and exterior policy dependent on Madrid.

Oksana Antonenko

Antonenko holds degrees from Moscow State University in Political Economy and Harvard University’s Kennedy School of Government (USA) MPP in International Affairs and Security.

Pascal Le Deunff

Pascal Le Deunff obtained a Master Degree in International Economy and a Doctorate in Economics at the University of Paris (Nanterre).

People's Car

the nickname of the Tata Nano, a US$2,500 economy car by Indian carmaker Tata Motors

Peter Hartcher

Bubble Man: Alan Greenspan and the Missing 7 Trillion Dollars, Hartcher's critique of the Federal Reserve Board's management of the US economy through the years of irrational exuberance, was published in 2004 to a mixed reception in the US, where Greenspan retained his iconic status, but was met with greater critical enthusiasm internationally.

Point Cabrillo Light

The opium trading brig Frolic wrecked on a reef near Point Cabrillo in 1850; the investigation of the wreck by agents of Henry Meiggs led to the discovery of the coast redwood forests of the Mendocino area and the beginning of the timber trade that would drive the local economy for decades.

Production for use

Cooperative economist Jaroslav Vanek suggests that worker self-management and cooperative ownership of enterprises operating in a free-market would allow for a genuine free-market economy free of the market-distorting, monopolistic tendencies and antagonistic interests that emerge from private ownership over production.

PUE

Poznań University of Economics, one of the most prestigious economy universities in Poland

Recession

Economist Richard C. Koo wrote that under ideal conditions, a country's economy should have the household sector as net savers and the corporate sector as net borrowers, with the government budget nearly balanced and net exports near zero.

Rideau Lakes, Ontario

The many tourist attractions in Rideau Lakes, including historic trails, the stone arch dam at Jones Falls, and the Rideau Waterway, are also an important part of the township's economy.

Scientific communism

Political economy subdivided into the political economy of capitalism and political economy of socialism

Sir Alexander Grant, 10th Baronet

In 1859 he went to Madras with Sir Charles Trevelyan, and was appointed inspector of schools; the next year he moved to Bombay, to fill the post of Professor of History and Political Economy in the Elphinstone College.

Tavua District

Its main economy is sugar cane, although the establishment of Tavua township was the result of a gold mine in Vatukoula, which is in the interior of Viti Levu but easily accessible from Tavua.

Ulrike Schaede

She has lived in Japan for a total of more than six years, has held a position at the Institute of Economic Research at Hitotsubashi University in Tokyo, and has been a visiting scholar at the research institutes of the Bank of Japan, Japan's Ministry of Finance and METI, Japan’s Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry.

Welrod

The Welrod was a British bolt action, magazine fed, suppressed pistol devised during World War II at the Inter-Services Research Bureau (later Station IX), based near Welwyn Garden City, UK, for use by irregular forces and resistance groups.

World energy consumption

Hypothetically, according to Robert Engelman (Worldwatch institute), in order to prevent collapse, human civilization would have to stop increasing emissions within a decade regardless of the economy or population (2009).


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