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This book is a remarkable portrait of Edward J. Phelan (1888-1967), a man who dedicated his life to social justice and whose views and actions guided the work of the ILO for decades. One of a small group of people who mapped out the design of the ILO in the Treaty of Versailles in 1919 and one of the principal authors of the ILO Constitution, Phelan became the ILO's fourth Director-General in 1941 until his retirement in 1948.

Exposition infrastructure and exhibition display : an introduction -- Judging the progress of sanitary science : the 1876 Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition -- Preventing fear and panic : the 1893 Chicago World's Columbian Exposition -- Occupying a vast camp : the 1901 Buffalo Pan-American Exposition -- Making a solemn protest : site and services at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition -- Presentations for the public eye : exhibits and exhibitors at the 1904 Louisiana Purchase Exposition

"Is the 2007-2008 U.S. sub-prime mortgage financial crisis truly a new and different phenomena? Our examination of the longer historical record finds stunning qualitative and quantitative parallels to 18 earlier post-war banking crises in industrialized countries. Specifically, the run-up in U.S. equity and housing prices (which, for countries experiencing large capital inflows, stands out as the best leading indicator in the financial crisis literature) closely tracks the average of the earlier crises. Another important parallel is the inverted v-shape curve for output growth the U.S. experienced as its economy slowed in the eve of the crisis. Among other indicators, the run-up in U.S. public debt and is actually somewhat below the average of other episodes, and its pre-crisis inflation level is also lower. On the other hand, the United States current account deficit trajectory is worse than average. A critical question is whether the U.S. crisis will prove similar to the most severe industrialized-country crises, in which case growth may fall significantly below trend for an extended period. Or will it prove like one of the milder episodes, where the recovery is relatively fast? Much will depend on how large the shock to the financial system proves to be and, to a lesser extent, on the efficacy of the subsequent policy response"--National Bureau of Economic Research web site

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface: The intimate details of globalization -- Acknowledgments -- A Note on Translations -- Introduction: Marriage and Migration in the New Global Economy -- Chapter 1. The Gift of Modernity -- Chapter 2. Convertibility -- Chapter 3. Globalization as a Gender Strategy -- Chapter 4. The Matchmaker -- Chapter 5. Money -- Chapter 6. The Two Unmarriageables -- Chapter 7. The Highly Marriageables -- Conclusion: For Better or For Worse -- Appendix A: Reflections on Methodology -- Appendix B: Characteristics of the Sample -- Notes -- References -- Index

We illuminate the relationship between optimal firm pricing and optimal trade policy by exploring a generalized model that accommodates product differentiation at both the national and sub-national (firm) levels. We assume monopolistic competition in the differentiated products at the sub-national level. When the national and sub-national substitution elasticities are similar we find little opportunity for small countries to improve their terms of trade through trade distortions, because firms play an important preemptive role in optimally pricing unique varieties. We contrast this with standard applications of perfect-competition Armington models, which exhibit high optimal tariffs--even for relatively small countries.