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• The dilemma of Anglo-American affluence

  - 2007-03-22

  The Challenge of Affluence: Self-Control and Well-Being in the United States and Britain since 1950. Avner Offer. Oxford University Press. [pounds sterling]30.00. xviii + 454 pages. ISBN 0-19-820853-7. Thinkers and writers have been interested in the penumbra of economics--sociology and psychology, mainly--for a very long time. Beyond David Hume...

  Tags: FINANCE, inflation, professor, University of Oxford

• Walt Whitman Rostow

  - 2005-01-01

  Walt Whitman Rostow Walt Whitman Rostow (born 1916) was an educator, economist, and government official. Born in New York City on October 7, 1916, Walt Whitman Rostow was the son of Russian immigrants Victor Aaron and Lillian Helman Rostow. He attended Yale University, receiving a B.A. in 1936. Following graduation,...

  Tags: Europe, FINANCE, Government, Investment, professor, Strategy, U.S., University of Oxford, Yale University

• Walt Whitman Rostow

  - 2003-01-01

  Walt Whitman Rostow Walt Whitman Rostow (born 1916) was an educator, economist, and government official. Born in New York City on October 7, 1916, Walt Whitman Rostow was the son of Russian immigrants Victor Aaron and Lillian Helman Rostow. He attended Yale University, receiving a B.A. in 1936. Following graduation,...

  Tags: Europe, FINANCE, Investment, professor, Strategy, U.S., University of Oxford, Yale University

• Nafziger senior editor of new books.

  - 2000-10-16

  M2 PRESSWIRE-16 October 2000-Kansas State University: Nafziger senior editor of new books C1994-2000 M2 COMMUNICATIONS LTD RDATE:16102000 MANHATTAN -- Civil wars in developing countries are among the most significant source of human suffering in the world today, according to E....

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• Scientific Culture and the Making of the Industrial West. (book reviews)

  - 1998-04-01

  Historians have for several decades been discussing the extent to which the British Industrial Revolution was influenced by substantial contemporaneous improvements in the human understanding of nature. Professor Jacob has herself contributed to this debate, not only in writing a book entitled The Cultural Meaning of...

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