DEPRESSION ECONOMICS
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Using Krugman's book "The Return of Depression Economics," this paper examines why today's economic climate could trigger a depression as severe as the one experienced during the 1930s. Krugman's theories are compared with those from Karl Polyani and Barry Eichengreen. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Deregulation and the Glass-Steagall Act
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A 14 page paper which discusses the current conditions and controversies concerning the Glass-Steagall Act of 1933 as it relates to issues of financial institutes and issues of deregulation. The history of the act is presented in helping to establish the reasoning behind the action. This is followed by a brief illustration of what has taken place in relationship to the act, in the past few decades. The majority of the paper addresses conditions and concerns since the repeal of the Glass-Steagall Act which took place last year. Overall, while the act of 1933 was never truly considered sufficient, it did maintain some control over banking regulations. With the growth in technology and such it became necessary to finally get rid of the act, but by doing so we have a great deal of issues to address if the future of financial institutions is to be secure and profitable. Bibliography lists 10 sources.
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Dilemmas of the High-Tech Labor Market
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An 11 page paper discussing the problems organizations face in filling their high tech labor needs. Unemployment in the late 1990s has reached its lowest point in 28 years. It is difficult for any employer to find the right people to fill openings, but some observers claim that the shortage most greatly felt in the high tech industries even threaten continued local economic growth. Most organizations have Year 2000 concerns, but hiring for that reason represents only a small portion of current openings. Instead, more than half of all high tech openings have resulted from company growth, and more than half of those are in applications programming. The face of corporate operation is in flux and moving toward greater electronic dependency; corporate America has all it can do to keep up. Two charts. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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Economic Activity on Each Side of the Great Depression
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A 4 page paper examining the US economy of the 1920s and that of the 1930s. There was a wealth of difference between the two. The federal government undertook all sorts of inflationary and risky ventures in an effort to create jobs and get money from wages back into circulation. None of its efforts seemed to have any lasting effect, and it took the economic benefits of another World War to extricate the US economy from the Great Depression that gripped the entire world. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Economic Analysis of India
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An 8 page research paper that examines the economy of India. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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Economic Analysis: 2000-2003 Economy
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This 5 page paper focuses on the U.S. economy and predictions made in a 2000 article. Those predictions are carefully evaluated to see what writers got right and what they got wrong. Bibliography lists 4 sources.
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Economic Bubbles
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Economic or speculative bubbles have been seen over many centuries where investors seek to make a profit and assets become over valued. This 16 page paper looks at some of the bubbles that have impacted on the United States of America, starting wit the Mississippi Bubble looking at a range of bubbles through to the dot com bubble which collapsed in 2000 the paper discuses different types of bubbles and the boom and bust cycle many have created and considers the underlying economic theories that explain the occurrence and patterns associated with bubbles. The bibliography cites 15 sources.
Filename: TEbubbles.rtf

Economic Compared to Human Well-Being and Growth -- Views of Plato, Aristotle, and Aquinas
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This 6 page report discusses the ways that three of the world’s great philosophers have defined the meaning of both economic growth and well-being. Both Aristotle and Thomas Aquinas were deeply interested in human nature. Aristotle, of course, developed his thinking from the philosophical viewpoint and the means by which human nature is responsible for an individual’s actions, beliefs, and state of being. Plato’s views were related more to a realm in which philosophy meant the pursuit of the wisdom that allows a man to truly assess the value of all things which humans desire. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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Economic Development in the Developed World
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This 5 page report discusses what economic development actually is and how it is achieved, as well as how those steps contribute to the overall developmental process. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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