Anatomy of an American Agricultural Credit Crisis

Anatomy of an American Agricultural Credit Crisis

Author: Kenneth L. Peoples

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

Published: 1992

Total Pages: 176

ISBN-13:

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'It is easy and interesting reading. It should be read by all who are interested in the agricultural sector....Libraries serving rural communities or persons interested in agriculture should definitely have this book in their collection.' s ACADEMIC LIBRARY BOOK REVIEW


Understanding Globalization

Understanding Globalization

Author: Robert K. Schaeffer

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2003

Total Pages: 396

ISBN-13: 9780742519978

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This best-selling text vividly shows how political and economic changes affect people's lives in different settings around the world. Globalization, the author argues, is not completely new. Instead, the current wave of globalization builds on international institutions created just after World War II and was given new impetus by policies introduced in the 1970s and 80s. The new edition has five new chapters as well as updates and changes throughout. Visit our website for sample chapters!


The anatomy of a credit crisis : the boom and bust in farm land prices in the United States in the 1920s

The anatomy of a credit crisis : the boom and bust in farm land prices in the United States in the 1920s

Author: Raghuram Govind Rajan

Publisher:

Published: 2012

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13:

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Does credit availability exacerbate asset price inflation? What channels could it work through? What are the long run consequences? In this paper we address these questions by examining the farm land price boom (and bust) in the United States that preceded the Great Depression. We find that credit availability likely had a direct effect on inflating land prices. Credit availability may have also amplified the relationship between the perceived improvement in fundamentals and land prices. When the perceived fundamentals soured, however, areas with higher ex ante credit availability suffered a greater fall in land prices, and experienced higher bank failure rates. Land prices stayed low for a number of decades after the bust in areas that had higher credit availability, suggesting that the effects of booms and busts induced by credit availability might be persistent. We draw lessons for regulatory policy.


Farm Credit Crisis

Farm Credit Crisis

Author: United States. Congress. House. Committee on Agriculture. Subcommittee on Conservation, Credit, and Rural Development

Publisher:

Published: 1985

Total Pages: 352

ISBN-13:

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The Anatomy of a Credit Crisis

The Anatomy of a Credit Crisis

Author: Raghuram G. Rajan

Publisher:

Published: 2015

Total Pages: 60

ISBN-13:

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Does credit availability exacerbate asset price inflation? What channels could it work through? What are the long run consequences? In this paper we address these questions by examining the farm land price boom (and bust) in the United States that preceded the Great Depression. We find that credit availability likely had a direct effect on inflating land prices. Credit availability may have also amplified the relationship between the perceived improvement in fundamentals and land prices. When the perceived fundamentals soured, however, areas with higher ex ante credit availability suffered a greater fall in land prices, and experienced higher bank failure rates. Land prices stayed low for a number of decades after the bust in areas that had higher credit availability, suggesting that the effects of booms and busts induced by credit availability might be persistent. We draw lessons for regulatory policy.


Fast Forward

Fast Forward

Author: Torry D. Dickinson

Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield

Published: 2001

Total Pages: 326

ISBN-13: 9780742508958

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This innovative, global feminist analysis of work and politics examines the diverse problems and related protests of women and men who labor to make ends meet in a rapidly-changing world. Using vivid examples from around the world, it reveals how "globalization" is reshaping social institutions and lives. Fast Forward explores how businesses and states reshaped and redistributed work around the world during the last 30 years of "globalization," often with adverse consequences. Within this fast-moving context, laboring people today engage in work outside of formal employment, try to obtain survival resources, mount a diverse array of often women-centered protests against firms and states, and try--on their own terms--to reinvent work and democratic political practices. Portraying the human face of global change, Fast Forward shows how overlapping social movements wrestle with economic and political marginalization, and initiate highly diverse, but related attempts to change the way the world works.


Debt and Dispossession

Debt and Dispossession

Author: Kathryn Marie Dudley

Publisher: University of Chicago Press

Published: 2002-05-15

Total Pages: 228

ISBN-13: 9780226169132

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Explores the social impact of the farm debt crisis of the 1980's through interviews with members of an agricultural community.