Review of The Great Depression, 1929-1938: Lessons for the 1980\u27s

Review of Christian Saint-Etienne. The Great Depression, 1929-1938: Lessons for the 1980s. Stanford, Calif.: Hoover Institution Press, 1984. Appeared in Journal of Economic Literature, Vol. XXIII, Sept. 1985

The Fiscal Revolution and Taxation: The Rise of Compensatory Taxation, 1929-1938

Thorndike explores the Keynesian conversion of Treasury Department tax-policy experts during the 1930s. At the beginning of the Great Depression, he narrates that there was no political interest in using tax cuts to promote economic recovery. In fact, in 1932 Congress responded to the economic emergency by enacting a tax increase in the name of fiscal responsibility. By 1937, however, Treasury experts had become persuaded of the merits of countercyclical taxation. Ironically, the first legislative experiment in Keynesian taxation took the form of a tax increase--the short-lived 1937 tax on undistributed corporate profits, intended to stimulate the economy by discouraging corporations from hoarding cash. He explains the use of income tax cuts as weapons in the countercyclical arsenal requires the existence of a tax imposed on the bulk of the population, and the income tax did not become a mass tax until World War II

Problems of the investor--1929--1938

Thesis (M.B.A.)--Boston University, 1940. Includes bibliography. Typewritten sheets in envelope. N.B.: Pages missing : 5, 104, 105, 106, 107, 134. Only one copy was available

Operation of Webber Demonstration Farm, 1929 - 1938

Preliminary StatementIn the spring of 1927, Mr. C. C. Webber approached the State Board of Regents of Education with the following problem: I own a lot of land, and pay taxes on it, in the state of South Dakota. I want to know if I shall continue to keep this land, and pay taxes on it. The State Agricultural College, I think, is the institution to show me. Now I propose to the State Board of Regents of Education that they: 1. Select any piece of land that I own in South Dakota for the purpose of conducting a demonstration farm by actual farming tests.2. After this land has been selected, plan and supervise the construction of a practicable set of improvements, advise me, and I will pay for same3. I will pay the taxes on any piece of such land you may select for a period of 10 years.4. Give you complete authority to operate the same for 10 years, and then make a report of it. The above provisions were agreed to by the State Board of Regents of Education, and said Board signed a contract with Mr. Webber to carry into effect the above propositions

When did Latin America fall behind? : evidence from long-run international inequality

When did Latin America fall behind?. Has the gap between developed countries and Latin America widened over time?. This paper addresses these recurrent questions with the tools provided by the inequality literature. Long-run inter-country inequality is assessed in terms of real (purchasing power-adjusted) GDP per head and of an 'improved' human development index as an indicator of welfare for present-day OECD and Latin America. A long term rise in income inequality is observed for this sample of countries with the deepening gap between OECD and Latin America as its main determinant. Contrary to a widespread view, in terms of income, Latin America fell behind in the late twentieth century. Inequality in terms of human development declined over time, but the gap between OECD and Latin America remained largely unchanged

On the Support that the Special and General Theories of Relativity Provide for Rock’s Argument Concerning Induced Self-Motion

Though Einstein and other physicists recognized the importance of an observer being at rest in an inertial reference frame for the special theory of relativity, the supporting psychological structures were not discussed much by physicists. On the other hand, Rock wrote of the factors involved in the perception of motion, including one’s own motion. Rock thus came to discuss issues of significance to relativity theory, apparently without any significant understanding of how his theory might be related to relativity theory. In this paper, connections between Rock’s theory on the perception of one’s own motion, as well as empirical work supporting it, and relativity theory are explored

Repression of historians in the Soviet Union in 1929 - 1938 years

In this article the repressive policies of the Stalinist leadership on to the ratio of the historians in the USSR in 1929 - 1938-s. Information presented data on the affected historians