Economic history

Davey Oetting 12/1/06 History of St. Louis St. Louis was acquired from France by the United States under President Thomas Jefferson in 1803, as part of the Louisiana Purchase. It was founded by the French in 1764 when Auguste Chouteau established a fur-trading post and Pierre Laclède Liguest, a New Orleans merchant, founded a town at the present site. They named it after King Louis XV of France and his patron saint, Louis IX. From 1770 to 1803, St. Louis was a Spanish possession, but it was ceded

HS11-7,756,1.00 History of Economic Thought Christof Zanecchia 10-992-204 Professor Allgoewer Karl Marx: “A context for inevitable social revolution” Of particular interest in Rima’s summary and critique of Marx’s background and social/economic contributions is the quote: “It is not the consciousness of men that determines their being, but, on the contrary, their social existence that determines their consciousness

“Food of Efficiency”: The Role of Bread in Japanese Economic History from the 1910s to the 1960s The history of bread in Japan began in the early Meiji Period, when Kimuraya Sohonten, a Tokyo bread store, opened and invented Anpan, a popular sweet bread with red bean paste inside. Approximately one hundred and fifty years have passed since then. In these 150 years, Japan’s numerous social changes have shifted and redefined the role of bread in the Japanese diet. Frist, bread was “a popular novelty

The Economic History of Pittsburgh At the beginning of the nineteenth century, Pittsburgh became a leader in America’s industrial production. This industrial production dominated Pittsburgh’s economy for over a century. This attracted many foreigners to Pittsburgh which had a demand for unskilled workers. However, Pittsburgh eventually lost its position as one of the world’s largest industrial producers and became a rising city for businesses in the field of information technology. As a result

One of the greatest declines in the world’s economic history was and still is the Great Depression. The Great Depression started in the late 1920’s and lasted until the end of the 1930’s. While the Great Depression was taking a toll on the whole economic world “13 to 15 million Americans were unemployed and nearly half of the country’s banks had failed.” If the banks are failing no one has money to buy anything from the stock markets causing consumer spending to drop. This Depression would leave

Michigan are not extraordinary or surprising by any means. The occurrences, are not something that the world hasn’t seen, heard, read or experienced before. The water crisis in Flint has simply been displayed in another light. Flint has a history of economics success and failure. With time, the prosperity from dirty industrial innovation, fallen under the wrong administration and minds, has led to turmoil for those with silent voices in the political economy. As a highly impoverished town the citizens

American economic history were the 1929 Great Depression and the 2008 Great Recession. While in each period the sources of economic excess differed, manufacturing in 1929 and housing in 2008, there are many similarities in their causes and effects. Initially there were also similarities in the way government and monetary authorities responded. However, it is the differences in response that are the most important and will have the greatest impact on the length, and depth of the two economic declines

Jacklyn: Tell me about your work and economic history. Julie: I started working when I was eight years old and my first job ever was peeling pulp. This job was only for three months and I earned ten cents for every stick. The second job I had was washing dishes for $2.80 an hour for three months, also. The next job I worked was working as a babysitter for the summer months at $50 a week. I worked odd end jobs to earn some extra cash and to stay busy. The next job I worked for Employer’s Health Insurance

took a turn for the worst causing a countrywide panic which led to be a national crisis for Americans all across the United States. This economic downfall stirred a ten-year financial nightmare leaving hard working citizens with little to no money at all. The Great Depression was the absolute deepest, darkest, most long-lasting economic downfall in the history of the Western industrialized world. It all began with the stock market crash of October 1929. As the summer faded away consumer spending

to go to catch up with America, a well-developed country. The differences between the two countries are part of the reasons why this happen. In political aspect, they have different systems to function. In historical aspect, China has a different history from the United States. In the economical way, China is making a great progress, but the poverty and unemployment still commonly exist in the country while the US does a better job on eliminating the poverty. When talking about the educations between