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A new research project at the University of Pennsylvania shows how the federal government after WWII was focused on providing safe, affordable rental housing. It just wasn’t delivering it in areas that were available to families of color. (Penn Today, July 2024)
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The end of East India Company's monopoly on trade with Asia in 1833 helped grow the tea trade and the consumption of the beverage in Britain. Ships like the Cutty Sark that could bring back the harvest of tea leaves from Asia before others became both valuable and symbolic. (History Hit, July 2024)
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From micro to macro, Andrew Leigh’s "The Shortest History of Economics" is an accessible history that covers the economic essentials. (Conversation, March 2024)
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Historians claim a new management culture emerged at Fiat in the 1970s that supported flexible production, displacing Fordist principles. In fact, decisions were made under the same criteria that had inspired technological change and output-mix decision making in the 1960s. (G. Maielli, 2003)
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The Protestant Reformation did less harm to the network of Protestant universities and their individual importance within that network than to Catholic ones, which experienced a reduction in connectivity and subsequent decline in significance. (CEPR, July 2024)
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Both American men’s and women’s paid and unpaid working hours in industry fell when the labor force began to transition away from agriculture. But later phase of structural change, the decline of manufacturing and rise of services, had different impacts on work based on gender. (CEPR, July 2024)
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U.S. cities exposed to a larger increase in female federal workers during WWI saw persistently higher female labor force participation in the public sector, as well as modest increases in private sector labor force participation suggestive of spill-overs. (A. Aneja, S. Farina, G. Xu, June 2024)
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