Economic History

Throughout the twentieth century, the U.S. government willingly deployed power, hard and soft, to protect American investments all around the globe...

Portugal is a state of southern Europe, with Lisbon, the nation''''s largest city, as its capital. The mainland is located in the extreme south-wes...

The Great Depression--1929 through 1939 when the United States and the world were economically crippled--is still not fully understood. There ar...

In March 1933, in one of his first acts as president, Franklin Delano Roosevelt declared a bank holiday throughout the United States. Considered...

Three Wasatch canyons - Mill Creek, Big Cottonwood, and Little Cottonwood - tantalise with what they suggest about the history of settlement in the...

Have the financial crisis of 2008 and the subsequent recession rearranged the basic structures of the global economy?To answer that fundamental que...

On the Turnpike traces the origin and history of the Indian Economic Service and in the process provides fascinating glimpses into how economic pol...