Economic Origins of War and Peace.
Comment on The Economic Origins of Ultrasociality by Gowdy & Krall.
'The great transformation: The political and economic origins of our time'.
Five or six generations are probably required, on average, to erase the advantages or disadvantages of one's economic origins.
Seeing that the diaspora of black people from Africa to the US was central for this country's economic origins.
With political scientist James Robinson, Acemoglu co-authored the much discussed book "Why Nations Fail" (Crown Business, 2012) and "Economic Origins of Dictatorship and Democracy" (Cambridge University Press, 2006).
The gift will provide fellowships to attract graduate students of diverse geographic, social, and economic origins to study real estate entrepreneurship on MIT's campus, with an emphasis on students from China.
Sources: Eric Foner, "The Fiery Trial: Abraham Lincoln and American Slavery"; Adam Goodheart, "'1861: The Civil War Awakening"; Marc Egnal, "Clash of Extremes: The Economic Origins of the Civil War"; Congressional Globe; Roy Basler, ed.,, The Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln.
With this isolation of the ghetto, he wrote, "joblessness as a way of life takes on a different social meaning". While the destructive patterns of behavior have economic origins, he contends, they in turn help perpetuate poverty as ghetto culture creates additional obstacles to social and economic advancement.
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