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Charles R. Geisst

Loan Sharks

2017

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The Great Depression S. 204-231

„… Great Depression also brought out the soothsayers and science fi ction writers. H. G. Wells wrote a book …” „… DEPRESSION The Great Depression 205devastate civilization. In the wake of that war, he predicted, would come …” „… costs or pay the mortgages on farm properties The Great Depression 207that had expanded greatly …”

Index S. 251-263

„… nancialGrange movement, 59Grant, Ulysses S., 2Great Britain: pawnbrokers, 53; usury laws, 4, 5Great Depression …” „… , 124–27, 163–65, 180–81, 235; collateral safety, 95; foreign investment, 22–23, 42–43; Great Depression …” „… , 105, 107–11, 116, 124–27, 206–07; Great Depression, 212–15, 217; interest rates, 25, 26–27, 28, 30, 48 …”

Preface

„… the Great Depression. Geisst gives us a well-documented intellectual history of the struggle with the …” „… repercussions of usury from the Civil War to the Great Depression, Geisst expertly reveals the extent to which …” „… century through the Great Depression. Geisst gives us a well-documented intellectual history of the …”

The Crash as a Credit Event S. 155-203

„… deteriorating banking situation turned what was a severe reces-sion into the Great Depression. Th e main …” „… Depression.Th e campaign hit a sensitive nerve. Th e Washington Post journalist spearheading the campaign …” „… violated, he noted, “I am sorry to say that a great many people in the State of Georgia and a great many …”

A Populist Issue S. 1-45

„… the 1870s to the beginning of the Great Depression. Th e overwhelming dominance of banks and the …” „… proved too great to be resisted. Th e West proved a great attraction to the fi nancial economy as well …” „… , would produce a great infl ux of capital to the state. It certainly has produced an infl ux of money …”

Notes S. 237-250

„… , In Hock: Pawning in Amer i ca from In de pen dence through the Great Depression (University of …” „… and Joseph R. Mason, “Contagion and Bank Failures During the Great Depression: Th e June 1932 Chicago …” „… ? Perceptions of British Investments in Kansas, 1882–1901,” Great Plains Quarterly (1987), 233.20. A. J …”

Postscript S. 232-236

„… renamed “payday lending.” During the Depression, the rate became standard at around 240 percent (20 …” „… the stock markets, very similar to the phenomenon in 1929, and be-coming known as the Great …”

The States Attack S. 102-154

„… eerie precursor of the Great De-pression, both in social and economic terms. Th e property bust proved …” „… these rights are to a very great extent placed under control of the government thus formed.”3 Th e …” „… percent per year, the greatest risk to a loan shark was that his borrower might also be indebted to other …”

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Ira Lieberman - In Good Times Prepare for Crisis

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Ira Lieberman

In Good Times Prepare for Crisis

2018

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Appendix Table A: A Comparative Overview of Debt-Crisis Regimes: From the Great Depression through the Great Recession S. 441-444

„… 441APPENDIX TABLE AA Comparative Overview of Debt- Crisis Regimes: From the Great Depression …” „… through the Great RecessionBasis of comparison1919–391946–901990–20052007–151. Major creditorsUnited …” „… States, Great Britain, France, Sweden, Switzerland, Netherlands, Belgium, JapanUnited States, Great …”

Part I: External Financing During the Interwar Period and the Great Depression, 1919-39 S. 29-100

„… Part IEXTERNAL FINANCING DURING THE INTERWAR PERIOD AND THE GREAT DEPRESSION, 1919–3931 …” „… sterling and the U.S. dollar during the Great Depres-sion, and a wave of competitive devaluations. Those …” „… , isolated Rus sia from the rest of the world.”32The Great Depression, Debt, and DefaultsThe worldwide …”

Index S. 525-0

„… , 136–37; Great Depression reports of, 67–68; Hungary aided by, 135; during liquidity crisis, 70; on …” „… Great Depression, 65–66; Greek, 418; issued by New York investment banks, 35–36; open market repurchase …” „… pean states, 180, 186; capital markets in, 190; as debtors, 48–51; Great Depression debts in, 68 …”

Preface

„… the past century, from the Great Depression to the recent Great Recession. As the painful experience …” „… rCRIS IS∑From the Great Depression to the Great Recession: Sovereign Debt Crises and Their ResolutionI R …” „… Great Depression to the Great Recession: Sovereign Debt Crises and Their ResolutionIRA W …”

Historical Context: The Export of Capital and Sovereign Debt Crises, 1815-1914 S. 11-28

„… in the interwar years and the Great Depression (discussed in Part I of this book). Also, several of …” „… book, sovereign debt crises and their resolution from the Great Depression to the Great Recession …” „… GOOD TIMES PREPARE FOR CRISISera as a throwback to the Great Depression of the 1930s. The crisis was …”

Introduction S. 1-10

„… work on the Great Depression and financial crises more broadly, wrote, “Speculative excess, referred …” „… Latin Amer i ca and Greece; (ii) in the interwar years, marked by defaults during the Great Depression …” „… Bank of England.6 Kindleberger wrote with re spect to the Great De-pression, “I reached the …”

Notes S. 455-524

„… Reconstruction, p. 5.33. Irving Fisher, “The Debt Deflation Theory of Great Depressions,” Econometrica 4 (1933 …” „… Press, 1973), p. 145.35. Fisher, “The Debt Deflation Theory of Great Depressions,” pp. 337–57; Nouriel …” „… , American Diplomacy in the Great Depression: Hoover- Stimson For-eign Policy, 1927–1933 (Yale University …”

Part IV: The Great Recession and Crises in the Advanced Economies, 2007-15 S. 299-440

„… the United States, which was by far the largest and deepest crisis since the Great Depression.The …” „… that experienced during the Great Depression was unlikely to occur again, particularly in the advanced …” „… Great Depression, were promptly addressed. Most crises were V- shaped; that is, the affected country …”

Part II: External Sovereign Debt, Synidcated Bank Loans, and Sovereign Debt Crises in Developing Countries, 1955-94 S. 101-176

„… encourage trade in the wake of the Great Depression.Despite the latter efforts, the capital markets failed …” „… extent by prewar factors— namely, the Great Depression, the large losses of investors in sovereign …” „… comparisons with the downward spiral of world trade in the 1930s during the Great Depression and the effect …”

Part III: Globalization, Financial Sector Liberalization, and Emerging Market Crises, 1990-2005 S. 177-298

„… crises in East Asia were not sovereign debt crises as they were during the Great Depression; nor were …” „… and transition countries grew and deepened— there were more listed companies with greater stock …” „… the industrial countries facili-tated a greater flow of funds to emerging markets around the globe …”

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Homelessness in America

2022

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3. The Skid Row Era: Great Depression to 1970s S. 19-36

„… community made up of “disaffiliated men.”THE GREAT DEPRESSIONThe Great Depression was a transition period …” „… by on the Bowery, and that had been the case since the Great Depression.Arrests for public …” „… 193The Skid Row EraGreat Depression to 1970sDuring the post-World War II era, homelessness takes on …”

Preface

„… Era: Post-Civil War to the 1920s 9 3 The Skid Row Era: Great Depression to 1970s 19 4 The Modern Era …” „… industrialization and urbanization, the opening and closing of the West, the Great Depression, and the post-World …” „… War II decline and revival of great American cities. Though we’ve used different terms (“tramp,” “hobo …”

Notes S. 153-204

„… History of the Great Depression (New York: The New Press, 2000 [Orig. 1970]), 38; Hoch and Slayton, New …” „… . The Skid Row Era (Great Depression to 1970s)1. There is some dispute over the etymology of “Skid Row …” „… Homeless Transient in the Great Depression: New York State, 1929–1941 (Albany: State University Press of …”

Bibliography S. 205-236

„… /10.1007/s10591-015-9360-8.Crouse, Joan M. The Homeless Transient in the Great Depression: New York State …” „… , December 26, 1982.Terkel, Studs. Hard Times: An Oral History of the Great Depression. New York: The New …” „… Great American Cities. New York: Vintage Books, 1992 (orig. 1961).Jaffe, DJ. Insane Consequences: How …”

Index S. 237-244

„… Depression ix, 19–21, 28, 35, 97Great Recession, 44, 97Greenwich Village, 14Grob, Gerald, 109Groth, Paul, 15 …” „… , Steam Train Maury, 34Grand Central Terminal, 68Grand Ole Opry, 13Great Society, 20, 25, 27, 38–39Great …”

2. The Romantic Era: Post-Civil War to the 1920s S. 9-18

„… underway before the Great Depression, though dispute exists as to when the decline of tramp culture became …” „… of industrialization, urbanization, and the development of the Great American Common Market …” „… my overseers, and they make friends with my dogs’”), and also laughed with.28 Having a great sense of …”

1. “Homelessness”: An Elusive Concept S. 1-8

„… the lead-up to the Great Depression, reformers’ concerns centered mainly around the labor market …” „… like “vagrant” and “bum.” Debate was then raging about the legacy of the Great Society. A historic …”

8. All Our Kin: The Challenge of Homeless Families S. 93-104

„… crisis marks it as a distinctive “modern” problem. Family homelessness was bad in the Great Depres-sion …” „… stamps, and social security disability income payments, a greater share of the population now depends on …” „… stayed flat.33 Around the time of the Great Recession, unmarried births hit 40 percent of all births and …”

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Hyden Munene - Copper King in Central Africa

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Copper King in Central Africa

2022

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2 Rhokana/Nkana during the Great Depression: Problems and Challenges, 1928–1939 S. 27-50

„… mining companies Chapter 2Rhokana/Nkana during the Great DepressionProblems and Challenges, 1928–193928 …” „… worsened with the onset of the Great Depression.9 One large company, it seemed, would be better placed to …” „… anticipated that the Great Depression would last for several years and under-mine the price of copper.10 They …”

8 Conclusion S. 175-190

„… Copperbelt companies during the Great Depression.At the climax of the Great Depression between 1932 and 1934 …” „… the acceleration of the Great Depression, which threatened the rapid development of Nkana mine and the …” „… initially fell, although, as it turned out, the Great Depression proved to be only a transitory setback for …”

1 Introduction and Background S. 1-26

„… successive periods: the Great Depression, 1929–1939; the Second World War and its aftermath, 1939–1949 …” „… profitability of Rhokana/Rokana? To answer this question, the book examines the impact of the Great Depression …” „… the Great Depression, from 1929 to 1939. It concludes by analyzing the events leading to the formation …”

Bibliography S. 255-270

„… Association of Southern Africa, 2011.Kraner, Saso. “Causes of the Great Depression and the Great Financial …” „… , Mbozi. “The Colonial Government and the Great Depression in Northern Rhodesia: Administrative and …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis

„… Background 12 Rhokana/Nkana during the Great Depression: Problems and Challenges, 1928–1939 273 Financial …” „… of Learned Societies. I owe a great debt to Professor I.R. Phimister, whose supervision during my PhD …” „… this monograph was crafted.Most important, I owe a great debt of gratitude to my wife, Machendu Mufinda …”

Index S. 271-276

„… , 186Forster Commission of Inquiry, 83, 84; strikes, 58, 73fuel shortages, 86–88, 182Great Depression …”

4 Rhokana/Nkana and the Political Economy of the Central African Federation, 1953–1963 S. 75-96

„… , namely, produc-tion and transport costs. As discussed in chapters 2 and 3, during the Great Depression …” „… mining at Nkana. By 1958, Nkana was the Copperbelt’s deepest mine at 3,742 feet.116 Mining at such great …” „… : Cost of Sales includes total expenses on mining, labor, redemption fund, mine development, depres-sion …”

3 Financial Incentives of War: Rhokana/Nkana during the Second World War and Korean Crisis, 1939–1953 S. 51-74

„… during the Great Depression to £31 per long ton of copper delivered to England between 1940 and 1945 (see …” „… Great Britain. It is nonetheless necessary that some scheme should be devised to make articulate mass …” „… earlier, copper is needed in great quantity in wartime for cartridge cases, shell bands, and fuses and is …”

6 Rokana/Nkana during the First and Second Phase of Nationalization, 1970–1981 S. 113-140

„… greater leakage of foreign exchange through dividend remittances and capital repayments. Depending on the …” „… but also induced greater stability in the labor force, permitting savings on recruitment and other …” „… , and that of Aston Martin heightened the fears of an imminent eco-nomic depression and pushed down …”

Notes S. 199-254

„… Studies 4, no. 1 (1977): 31–51. 47. Saso Kraner, “Causes of the Great Depression and the Great Financial …” „… Production,” 3. 80. The Editor, “The Editor’s Notebook: U.S. Funds for Greater Copperbelt Power Supplies …” „… and Management, Table 14.1, 148. 91. The Editor, “The Editor’s Notebook: U.S. Funds for Greater …”

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Dietmar Rothermund - The Industrialization of India

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The Industrialization of India

Series: Moderne Südasienstudien - Modern South Asian Studies

Volume 8 2019

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3. The First World War and the Great Depression: Protectionism and Import Substitution S. 36-47

„… The First World War and the Great Depression: Protectionism and Import Substitution Indian …” „… Great Depression – the jute industry reached a peak of mill consumption of raw jute of about 1.2 mill. t …” „… World War and the Great Depression: Protectionism and Import Substitution 38 When they tried to reduce …”

Titelei/Inhaltsverzeichnis S. 1-10

„… and the Great Depression: Protectionism and Import Substitution 3. 36 Indian industry in the 1920 s 37 …” „… The impact of the Great Depression 40 The rise of state interventionism in the Second World War4. 48 …” „… 1999. I learnt a great deal by talking to the Indian members of the group to which I belonged from 1992 …”

Introduction: Studying the Industrialization of India S. 11-12

„… , the impact of the First World War and of the Great Depression, the rise of state interventionism in …”

5. The Nehru era: Planned economy, protectionism and forced industrialization S. 55-74

„… the peasants in the years of the Great Depression made it rather independent of the rather small group …” „… a 10-year plan for India (Visvesvaraya 1934). He was a great admirer of Japan and hoped to reproduce …” „… and Reconstruction. (Mansergh 1973: 847, 967) Dalal took up this job with great enthusiasm. He tried …”

1. India and the British Industrial Revolution of the 18th century S. 13-19

„… convinced that the great tradition of Indian workmanship would also help India to make rapid progress in the …” „… , but one of India´s greatest nationalist economists, M.G. Ranade, had even earlier criticised the …” „… Great Britain was sufficiently advanced in industrial development. By shifting to a policy of free trade …”

Bibliography S. 163-168

„… Great Depression, 1929-1939, New Delhi Rothermund. Dietmar, ed. (1995), Indien.Kultur, Geschichte …”

Index S. 169-183

„… 1935 57 Gowda, Kempe 152 grain 25 Great Depression 28, 37, 39, 40, 44, 58 green revolution 79 Gregory …” „… wages 18, 23, 99, 159 Walchand Hirachand 50 Index 182 Walchandnagar 51 war - depression - war 14 war …”

2. The beginnings of modern industrialization in India in the 19th century S. 20-35

„… Association astutely managed the stabilisation of the tea price at the time of the Great Depression. Only very …” „… 1970) This caused an inflation, which created a great deal of liquidity, which was also conducive to …” „… relying on indigenous (swadeshi) industrial production rather than importing industrial goods from Great …”

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