Tabla de Contenidos: “…Brandon -- The tautology problem -- Darwin's untimely burial / Stephen Jay Gould -- Adaptation and evolutionary theory / Robert N. …”

“…Grant and Rutherford B. Hayes; financier Jay Gould; writers Oscar Wilde and Walt Whitman; and actor Maurice Barrymore, the father of John, Ethel, and Lionel, to "Queen City of the Cypress"-Jefferson, Texas. …”

“…Coclanis challenges such beliefs, and, in so doing, provides a history of globalization in Southeast Asia over the past two millennia. Employing Stephen Jay Gould's famous temporal metaphors - time's arrow and time's cycle - Coclanis traces the trajectory of globalization, arguing that globalization has ebbed and flowed in the region over the centuries, that globalization is best viewed as a process rather than a permanent condition, and that its effects have differed considerably across space and over time. …”

Tabla de Contenidos: “…. -- The Rise of Bank Clearinghouses. -- Chapter Two Lincoln Saves a Nation by Printing Money. -- The Lincoln Legacy. -- Financing the War. -- Salmon Chase and Jay Cooke. -- Fisk & Gould Profit by Inflation. -- The Panic of 1873. -- Gold Convertibility Restored. -- The Battle Over Silver Money. -- A Changing American Dream. -- The Silver Compromise. -- Chapter Three Robber Barons and the Gilded Age. -- The Age of Speculation. -- Republicans Embrace Inflation. -- The Panic of 1893. -- The Cross of Silver. -- The Evangelical Silverites. -- The Turning Point: 1896. -- Chapter Four The Rise of the Central Bank. -- The Trust Buster: Theodore Roosevelt. -- The Need for a Flexible Currency. -- The Crisis of 1907. -- The National Monetary Commission. -- The Passage of the Federal Reserve Act. -- Roosevelt, Wilson and the Politics of Reform. -- Chapter Five War, Boom & Bust. -- The Fed During WW I. -- A Return to Republican Normalcy. -- The Roaring Twenties. -- The New Era of Debt and Investing. -- The Bust: Stocks Fall and Tariffs Rise. -- Chapter Six New Deal to Cold War. -- FDR and the Era of Broken Precedent. -- The Seizure of Gold and Dollar Devaluation. -- Dollar Devaluation Hurt World Trade. -- The Rise of the Corporate State. -- Central Planning Arrives in Washington. -- FDR Embraces Federal Deposit Insurance. -- The Legacy of FDR. -- The Fed and The RFC. -- Corportivist Reform at the Fed. -- The New Deal Fails, So America Goes to War. -- Wartime Inflation and Debt Finance. -- Bretton Woods and Global Inflation. -- Chapter Seven Debt and Inflation A Rising Tide Lifts All Boats. -- Federal Revenues Grow. -- The Fed Regains Independence. -- The Post-War Economy Soars. -- The Legacy of War. -- Cold War, Free Trade. -- The Dollar's Golden Age. -- Global Imbalances Return. -- Richard Nixon's Betrayal. -- The End of the Dollar Peg. -- The Return of Sovereign Borrowing. -- Chapter Eight Leveraging the American Dream. -- The New Uncertainty. -- Humphrey Hawkins and Full Employment. -- Balanced Budgets and Inflation. -- Volcker's Shock Treatment. -- The Crisis Managers. -- The Latin Debt Crisis. -- Volcker's Apprentice: Gerald Corrigan. -- Reagan Reappoints Volcker. -- The Never-ending Crisis. -- Volcker Exits and Crisis Returns. -- From Excess to Delusion. -- The Greenspan Legacy. -- Chapter Nine Prospects. -- The Growth Challenge. -- Growth versus Inflation. -- Changing Places. -- Triffin's Dilemma and the Dollar. -- Notes. -- About the Author. -- Index…”
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