After all, economic theory should be grappling with economic history.

We have much to learn, too, from economic history.

For example, there should be more teaching of economic history.

Policymaking is often dominated by simple lessons learned from economic history.

Here is a quick reminder of Ireland s sad recent economic history.

Virrankoski has in his research focused on economic and social history.

For the first time in history a government controlled all economic activity.

But the history of economic crises shows that non economic factors play an equally important role in any solution.

Despite their common geography, history, and economic interests, their strategic trajectories will diverge.

No great economic power in history has been born without force until now.

Free market enthusiasts place in the history of economic thought will remain secure.

What Obama does have is a history of bringing in capable economic advisers.

First, history has already shown how resource constraints can hinder global economic growth.

History teaches that global economic order is difficult to establish and maintain in the absence of a dominant economic power.

NEW YORK This global economic crisis will go down in history as Greenspan s Folly.

The crisis began in 2007 and is without precedent in post war economic history.

So what lessons does history have to teach us about our current global economic predicament?

History Economic development originated in the post war period of reconstruction initiated by the US.

Free market enthusiasts place in the history of economic thought will remain secure. But thinkers like Friedman leave an ambiguous and puzzling legacy, because it is the interventionists who have succeeded in economic history, where it really matters.

BERKELEY We economists who are steeped in economic and financial history and aware of the history of economic thought concerning financial crises and their effects have reason to be proud of our analyses over the past five years.

There is no certain answer to that question, but perhaps economic history can offer some clues.

At least, that is what I said when I lectured on economic history back in 2007.

Mozambique's post independence history has been a rollercoaster ride of civil war and changing economic models.

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Its economic growth was faster than that of any economy in human history up to that time.

PARIS The creation of Europe s economic and monetary union is unique in the history of sovereign states.

To understand why, it is helpful to take a broad view of Latin America s history and economic development.

I am often asked why economies get themselves into such a bind again and again throughout economic history.

In normal times, history is left to historians and economic policy debate relies on models and econometric estimates.

We have experienced great economic transformations throughout history the industrial revolution, the technology revolution, and the era of globalization.

But at no time in modern history have developing countries been at the forefront of a multipolar economic system.

We have experienced great economic transformations throughout history the industrial revolution, the technology revolution, and the era of globalization.

What they cannot gain through democratic elections they acquire through the history of the revolution and today s economic triumphs.

The international coordination of world economic policies, as formalized in the recent G 20 statement, is unprecedented in history.

The experiences of the 1990s and from economic history more generally show that trade liberalization and global economic integration are greatly facilitated by expansion of economic activity and employment and by improvements in living standards.

Similar economic problems permeate the history of the last few decades, from South Korea to Western Europe to the US.

In general, history, rather than economic theory, seems to offer a guide to interpreting wildly surprising and inherently unpredictable events.

Policymakers (whose knowledge of economic history is generally limited) are therefore at risk of being drowned in contradictory historical references.

Moreover, the Cauca region throughout its long history had very strong economic and cultural ties with the people of Ecuador.

In short, Britain s was a political, not an economic, failure. And that history, unfortunately, is all too pertinent to America s fate.

Mutual accusations reached a level unworthy of the common history and the close personal, cultural and economic ties between both countries.

Lacking opportunities, emigration increased a vivid reminder of how economic crises have wreaked havoc on the country s demographics throughout its history.

In Economic History of Twentieth Century Latin America, Enrique Cardinas, Jose Antonio Ocampo and Rosemary Thorp, editors. New York Palgrave Macmillan.

Despite its brutality, like other totalitarian regimes in history, due to an economic boom, known as an economic miracle , the regime reached its highest level of popularity in the early 1970s.

England s rulers sought in vain to keep a lid on the greatest explosion of economic energy and financial wealth in human history.