...This chapter places the debates over voluntary integration within the context of the Boston busing crisis and the national recession. Explorations of the dramatic events that surrounded the Boston busing crisis have often focused on the ways in which “suburban liberals” passively stood...

... did the same for Goldman Sachs; and Freddy Mac and Fannie Mae were put into receivership. The chapter reviews polls that showed that public confidence in Wall Street had reached its lowest levels in forty years. The chapter highlights the Great Recession, which was a disaster for working people...

... of an underclass revolt. It then looks at the reaction of the community of contentment to the miseries and violence of the urban slums and the probable reaction if the violence becomes more extreme. Finally, it explains how recession and depression could exacerbate the culture of contentment. culture...

... for Athens, Dublin and Lisbon suitable for the rest of the eurozone too. So long as they held on to their original diagnosis, they could not recognise that the precedents set in the smaller countries were perpetuating the crisis. The result was a disaster: a self-inflicted second recession, a poisoned...

.... Americans rode that growth to a higher standard of living than anyone else. But in the 1970s it all seemed to be flowing away. Unemployment, oil shortages, a plunging stock market, recession, and, above all, inflation were apparently ending these golden years of unparalleled prosperity. Inflation hit...

...This chapter considers the possible application of academic research to address the dire predicament of balance sheet recession and chronic stagnation characterizing large parts of the world economy since 2007. Contemporary policymakers have striven to stimulate demand despite huge debt overhangs...

... Settlements The Crisis of Capitalism in America Bonn domestic interventions Estonia Pan Asianism Persia recession of 1937– Robinson Robert Roosevelt recession of 1937– Switzerland Briand Aristide European Union Finland International Monetary Fund IMF Netherlands Oslo Convention of 1930 Sweden...

..., the new independent states had no alternative than to embark on the transition from central planning. Throughout Central Asia, the 1990s were a grim decade, with falling output and increased income inequality and poverty. The transitional recession was most moderate in Uzbekistan and most severe...

... militant working-class claims. Capitalism and bourgeois hierarchies proved more resilient than either defenders or attackers had assumed. Furthermore, the movement of restoration was wider than the three societies. Across the Atlantic, “red scare” and recession were ushering in the era of normalcy...

... standard of the workers and those of the employers or capitalists, the unequal distribution of power inherent in the system, and the phenomenon referred to as a panic, crisis, depression or recession, with its associated unemployment and general despair. The chapter considers how the classical tradition...

... by the accommodation of economics to comfort, could bring eventual economic discomfort. It also looks at inflation as a threat to the culture of contentment and the ways that a severe recession or depression could change the political economy of contentment. culture of contentment democracy self corrective capacity...

...The global financial crisis highlighted the impact on macroeconomic outcomes of recurrent events like business and financial cycles, highs and lows in volatility, and crashes and recessions. At the most basic level, such recurrent events can be summarized using binary indicators showing...