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- April 1999
- Case
French Pension System, The: On The Verge Of Retirement? (Abridged)
By: David A. Moss
Surveys the French pension system, its particular institutional characteristics, and some of the critical challenges and opportunities facing French reformers. Like almost every other industrialized country, France has a large pay-as-you-go public pension system that... View Details
- Article
The Rise of Consumer Bankruptcy: Evolution, Revolution, or Both
By: David A. Moss and Gibbs A. Johnson
Keywords: Insolvency and Bankruptcy
- December 1998 (Revised January 1999)
- Compilation
Explaining the Great Depression
By: David A. Moss and Joseph P Gownder
Although the Great Depression stands as the most punishing economic event of the 20th century, there is still remarkably little consensus about its causes. This case presents a number of prominent explanations including those of Franklin D. Roosevelt, John Maynard... View Details
- December 1998
- Case
Origins of National Income Accounting
By: David A. Moss and Joseph P Gownder
Set in the Great Depression, this case explores the origins of national income accounting in the United States. Highlights Senator La Follette's 1932 proposal for the federal government to begin collecting national income statistics. View Details
- 1998
- Working Paper
The Rise of Consumer Bankruptcy: Evolution, Revolution, or Both?
By: David A. Moss and Gibbs A. Johnson
- 1998
- Working Paper
Limited Liability and the Birth of American Industry: Theory Meets History
By: David A. Moss
- 1998
- Working Paper
Public Risk Management and the Private Sector: An Exploratory Essay
By: David A. Moss
- January 1998 (Revised June 1999)
- Case
German Hyperinflation of 1923, The
By: David A. Moss and Julio J. Rotemberg
Presents a compilation of primary and secondary sources as well as a set of data exhibits on the German hyperinflation of 1923. The hyperinflation represented a defining moment in German history and certainly one of the two or three most important economic events of... View Details
Keywords: History; Price; Production; Money; Inflation and Deflation; Policy; Economy; Government and Politics; Germany
- April 1997
- Teaching Note
Confronting the Third Industrial Revolution TN
By: David A. Moss
Teaching Note for (9-796-161). View Details
Keywords: United States
- January 1997 (Revised March 1997)
- Case
Crisis at the Federal Reserve: Arthur Burns and the Stagflation of 1973-75
By: David A. Moss and Wyatt C. Wells
Briefly examines the history of the Federal Reserve System up through 1970 and then delves into how the central bank, under the leadership of Arthur F. Burns, responded to the "stagflation" of the early 1970s. It culminates with the Federal Reserve's response to the... View Details
- January 1997 (Revised March 1997)
- Background Note
Note on Money and Monetary Policy
By: David A. Moss and Wyatt C. Wells
Offers a brief overview of economic thinking about the nature of money and about how the central bank can affect the economy through monetary policy. View Details
- 1997
- Working Paper
Courting Disaster? The Transformation of Federal Disaster Policy Since 1803
By: David A. Moss
- August 1996 (Revised January 1998)
- Teaching Note
Deutsche Bank, The TN
By: David A. Moss
Teaching Note for (1-796-106). View Details
- April 1996
- Case
Confronting the Third Industrial Revolution
By: David A. Moss
Comprises three pieces. The first piece, which forms the body of the case, is adapted from a speech delivered by the author before the Harvard Business School Political Forum in early 1995. Originally entitled "The Economic Foundations of American Social Policy:... View Details
- September 1995
- Teaching Note
Constructing a Nation: The United States and Their Constitution, 1763-1792 TN
By: David A. Moss
Teaching Note for (9-795-063). View Details