From the Great Depression of the 1930s to the recent recession, the consequence most frequently associated with an economic downturn has been unemployment. Unemployment figures, in fact, are often cited as an indicator of the severity of economic conditions. And as unemployment rises, so does concern that the official rate reported each month by Statistics Canada may not be measuring the full e...

This approach was in keeping with the thinking of the time. Central control of power and resources had enabled governments to pull their economies out of the Great Depression and later to wage the Second World War. The application of Keynesian principles, which give a large role to central government in managing the economy, resulted in spectacular economic gains in the 1950s and 1960s. Central...

BACKGROUND Late-life depression encompasses both patients with late-life onset of depression (>60 years) and older adults with a prior and current history of depression. The aim of the study was to analyze the impact of the economic condition and family relations in childhood as risk factors for late-life depression. SUBJECTS AND METHODS This was an analytical cross-sectional study comprising...

We study corporate performance during and after the Great Depression for all industrial firms on the NYSE. Our first goal is to identify the factors that contribute to business insolvency and valuation during the period 1928 to 1938. To this end, we examine factors such as debt policy, credit-worthiness, corporate governance, and investment. Our second goal is to determine whether experiences d...

Although the role of emotion in social economic decision making has been increasingly recognized, the impact of mood disorders, such as depression, on such decisions has been surprisingly neglected. To address this gap, 15 depressed and 23 nondepressed individuals completed a well-known economic task, in which they had to accept or reject monetary offers from other players. Although depressed i...

The socio-economic and cultural evolution in the last decades encouraged a significant process of transformation of the life conditions in advanced societies, particularly the average duration of the life of the elderly population, which since the second half of the past century has increased by about 60%, becoming from an average of fifty years to about eighty two for women and eighty for men....

The 1940 census has been termed the first modern census. It was the first to ask about income and seek a wide range of other social and economic information, the first to be designed and planned by a full-time professional staff that included social scientists. Since then the decennial censuses have become increasingly detailed, taking advantage of advances in sampling techniques and, beginning...

1 The Indonesian Economy A decade before Asian economic crisis that hardly hit Indonesia, the Indonesian economy has achieved a remarkable growth of 7% a year. 1997 was a nightmare of the Indonesian economy. In the Middle of 1997 Indonesia suffered from severe drought and extensive forest fire lasted for several months and devastated million of rainforests. Due to severe drought Indonesian agri...