Economics: a Historical Perspective
Economics has been around since the beginning of time, but the study of economics dates back only a few hundred years. Since the beginning of human history, people ...
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Michael Dell never imagined his work would end up in a museum when he was sitting in his college dorm room in 1984, dreaming of building and selling his own personal computers. Now, one of his orig...
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Frankfurt (dpa) - The German Football League (DFL) on Tuesday
awarded Bundesliga media rights to Leo Kirch on a six-year deal from
2009 after the former media mogul's Sirius...
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(EDS: ADDING COMMENTS FROM GAMBLING EXPERT)
China, where the only legal form of gambling on the mainland is
buying a ticket for a state-run lottery, is considering allowing its
people to bet...
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Marine archaeologists will begin work in June to uncover the sand-buried hull of a 2,300-year-old ship thought to have been ferrying wine when it sank off the coast of Cyprus, researchers said Thur...
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One of the arguments currently made for increasing the intake of immigrants and guest workers is that it is vital to the health of the nation's economy.If this were true, a tough choice would have ...
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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Some top U.S. chief executives
may have held on to their jobs if only they had learned the
lessons of American financial history. A place for such learning will be the Museum ...
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Selected editorial excerpts from the U.S. press:
NOT JUST THE FED (The New York Times, New York)
The American economy is weakening fast, and some prominent
economists are saying a recess...
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BERLIN (Reuters) - Julia Sonnenberg peruses the
latest bestsellers at a bookstore in central Berlin but cannot
bring herself to buy one. "I am here to window-shop, not really to spend," the
40-yea...
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Leadership: When it comes to economic performance, there's no contest: Apart from the early years of the Depression, Jimmy Carter's brief tenure as president was the worst in the 20th century.Carte...
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Economics: a Historical Perspective
Dell donates computer to Smithsonian
