A Financial History of Western Europe Charles P. Kindleberger
Publisher: Oxford University Press

2 days ago - By Richard Lukàcs - Who will win the early 21st century global European chess game between the EU and Russia on the back of the local population? 3 days ago - According to the latest Eagle AID report entitled “Painfully slow electric car take-up runs into April” EV sales in Western Europe grew by ~50% year over yea. Nov 18, 2013 - Update: The top chart below is an updated version of the chart below, with the new chart based on unemployment rate data for September from Global Financial Data (paid subscription required). Oct 21, 2013 - But by forcing the creation of monetised labour markets, as well as encouraging innovation and exploration, it spurred a weakened Western Europe towards economic development. How are contested interpretations of historical and recent events activated in the present, uniting and dividing European societies? 5 hours ago - The script is something agreed upon by the overall global web or network of financial control, which directs Putins govt just as much as it directs Obama's, Cameron's, Hollande's or Merkel's. The author of a three-volume What if the sources of economic growth have dried up – not temporarily, but permanently? The new pessimism Population growth was boosted by a war-induced baby boom and mass immigration into the US and Western Europe. In the History might help, but it is the decisions of today that determine our financing costs of tomorrow. May 8, 2014 - The three lectures focused successively on diplomatic, economic, and social aspects of the troubled interwar history of Europe and its relationship with the wider world. May 20, 2014 - Nations like Belarus, Ukraine, and even Georgia all share close historical, economic, and cultural ties with Russia, much more so than with Western Europe. Feb 24, 2010 - History was seasonal for Oswald Spengler, the German historian, who wrote in his 1918-22 book, The Decline of the West, that the nineteenth century had been "the winter of the West, the victory of materialism and skepticism, of socialism, According to the Congressional Budget Office's "alternative fiscal scenario," which takes into account likely changes in government policy, public debt could rise from 44 percent before the financial crisis to a staggering 716 percent by 2080. May 20, 2014 - Robert Skidelsky, Professor Emeritus of Political Economy at Warwick University and a fellow of the British Academy in history and economics, is a member of the British House of Lords. May 21, 2014 - Broadening the question of a common European narrative beyond the East-West divide. May 14, 2014 - Our economic relations with Western Europe were handled though the European Free Trade Association, EFTA. As you can see the data in minwage On the Cafe Hayek blog yesterday, Don Boudreaux pointed to a post on the Money Illusion blog, where Scott Sumner presented some data on the minimum wage and jobless rates in the 18 countries in Western Europe.