Topic: U.S.S.R.

What will the current economic crisis mean for the health of the people of Northern Ireland? On this basis, Northern Ireland may escape relatively unscathed in the short term but as every crisis also provides an opportunity, this is an appropriate time ...
The World academic community was recently taken aback when the Nobel Committee awarded this year's Nobel Prize in Economics to an unfamiliar scholar, Elinor Ostrom, for her analysis of economic governance, especially the commons. Ostrom's work takes the debate of exploring a ...
Economists at People for a Perfect Economy show without question that there is a What could cause a total economic collapse in a country like the United States? The possible catalysts for a total financial collapse of a major country, such as ...

Business Year In Review 1995

With very few exceptions, 1994 was an excellent year. The world economy finally put a lingering recession behind it, and a vigorous recovery, accompanied by low inflation, was in train. (See Table I and Table IV. {3}Excluding Albania, China, North Korea, Vietnam, ...

ARE MARKET ECONOMIES IMPLODING

The article presents the author's perspectives concerning the financial and economic crisis. Excerpt from Article: It may be a temporary adjustment, and all will be back to normal in a few years, or we may soon see a collapse of the whole ...

Industrialized nations' CO2 falls 2.2 pct in 2008

OSLO (Reuters) - Industrialized nations' greenhouse gas emissions fell by 2.2 percent in 2008, the steepest decline since the break-up of the Soviet Union as economies slowed, a Reuters compilation showed Wednesday.Emissions are likely to have fallen more sharply in 2009 due ...
World Communist Movement, of late, shows signs of revival across the world after its decline began from the 70?s and near total collapse after the disintegration of Soviet Union, followed by other European Communist countries like Poland, Romania and Hungary. Marxism as ...

Cuba orders extreme measures to cut energy use

HAVANA (Reuters) - Cuba has ordered all state enterprises to adopt " extreme measures" to cut energy usage through the end of the year in hopes of avoiding the dreaded blackouts that plagued the country following the 1991 collapse of its then-top ...

Steve: Classic Capitalism

the new capitalism" was on everybody's mind. But the principles that support economic growth endure. Democratic capitalism requires: Were it otherwise, the Soviet Union would have won the cold war and Japan, which had numerous government-funded stimulus packages in the '90s, would ...

Time to fasten our seatbelts

Let's put Yachtgate and tiffs within the Bullingdon Club aside for now and talk about something trivial for a spot of light relief: global recession and the recasting of the world's economic and political hierarchy.Overnight Mervyn King, ultra-cautious governor of the Bank ...