Today, in the aftermath of the subprime crisis, there is a foreboding sense that it is too easy for Americans to borrow. Living beyond our means on our cards and our mortgages, Americans borrowed at ...an unsustainable pace, and what put us here, the logic goes, was the unfortunate collision of lenders' greed and borrower's cupidity. Yet free-for-all borrowing defined another moment's economy as well, but without the ill consequences: the postwar period. After World War II, cheap credit underpinned the suburban prosperity, through government-insured loans, auto financing, and even department store Charga-Plates.
Wissenskultur und gesellschaftlicher Wandel, Bd. 17 Der hohe Anspruch einer "Verwissenschaftlichung der Politik" prägte die Bundesrepublik der sechziger Jahre. Besonders euphorisch bekannte sich die ...Wirtschaftspolitik zum großen Wurf: Eine Steuerung der Gesellschaft schien möglich, und Entscheidungen sollten durch wissenschaftliche Expertise sachlich vorbereitet werden. Doch unter den Bedingungen des rasanten gesellschaftlichen Wandels der siebziger Jahre wurde dieser Anspruch der keynesianischen Globalsteuerung rasch in Frage gestellt. Steuerungsfehler, Strukturwandel und Stagflation ließen das Zutrauen in die "Verwissenschaftlichung" schwinden. Tim Schanetzkys Studie fragt nach diesem Zusammenhang zwischen Politik, wissenschaftlicher Beratung und gesellschaftlichem Wandel: Wie nahm Wirtschaftspolitik gesellschaftliche Komplexität wahr? Wie gelang es ihr, unter den Bedingungen dieser Wahrnehmung Entscheidungssicherheit herzustellen? Und wie veränderte sich darüber die Geltung wissenschaftlicher Expertise? Die Berater wandten sich im Laufe der siebziger Jahre monetaristischen und angebotsökonomischen Alternativen zu. Gleichzeitig ging das Vertrauen in eindeutige wissenschaftliche Handlungsanweisungen in einem Strudel aus Expertise und Gegenexpertise unter. Diese Ernüchterung ist der Ursprung einer bis in die Gegenwart durch und durch pragmatischen Wirtschaftspolitik.
This collection brings together new and original critical essays by eleven established European American Studies scholars to explore the 1960s from a transatlantic perspective. Intended for an ...academic audience interested in globalized American studies, it examines topics ranging from the impact of the American civil rights movement in Germany, France and Wales, through the transatlantic dimensions of feminism and the counterculture movement. It explores, for example, the vicissitudes of Europe's status in US foreign relations, European documentaries about the Vietnam War, transatlantic trends in literature and culture, and the significance of collective and cultural memory of the era.
The utopian vision of spatial urbanism--an avant-garde architectural phenomenon that blended technology, leisure, and culture--examined as a reaction to modernism and official government building and ...planning in the embattled cultural context of 1960s France.
"How did the New Left uprising of the 1960s happen? What caused millions of young people--many of them affluent and college educated--to suddenly decide that American society needed to be completely ...overhauled? In Smoking Typewriters, historian John McMillian shows that one answer to these questions can be found in the emergence of a dynamic underground press in the 1960s. Following the lead of papers like the Los Angeles Free Press, the East Village Other, and the Berkeley Barb, young people across the country launched hundreds of mimeographed pamphlets and flyers, small press magazines, and underground newspapers. New and cheap printing technologies had democratized the publishing process, and by the decade's end the combined circulation of underground papers stretched into the millions. Though not technically illegal, these papers were often genuinely subversive, and many who produced and sold them--on street-corners, at poetry readings, gallery openings, and coffeehouses--became targets of harassment from local and federal authorities. With writers who actively participated in the events they described, underground newspapers captured the zeitgeist of the '60s, speaking directly to their readers, and reflecting and magnifying the spirit of cultural and political protest. McMillian gives special attention to the ways underground newspapers fostered a sense of community and played a vital role in shaping the New Left's "movement culture." By putting the underground press at the forefront, McMillian underscores the degree to which the political energy of the 1960s emerged from the grassroots, rather than the national office of Students for a Democratic Society (SDS), which historians of the era typically highlight. Deeply researched and eloquently written, Smoking Typewriters captures all the youthful idealism and vibrant tumult of the 1960s as it delivers a brilliant reappraisal of the origins and development of the New Left rebellion"--
"What caused the New Left rebellion of the 1960s? In SMOKING TYPEWRITERS, historian John McMillian argues that the "underground press" contributed to the New Left's growth and cultural organization in crucial, overlooked ways"--
This paper reviews the evidence on takeover waves of the 1960s and 1980s, and discusses the implications of this evidence for corporate strategy, agency theory, capital market efficiency, and ...antitrust policy. We conclude that antitrust policy played an important role in the two takeover waves, and that the wave of the '60s presents a problem for efficient capital markets.
Touching on the decade's biggest issues, from changing cultural norms to the role of the state, Debating Dissent critically examines ideas of generational change and the sixties.
Essential for students of theatre studies, Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series provides a comprehensive survey and study of the theatre produced in each decade from the 1950s ...to 2009 in six volumes. Each volume features a critical analysis and reevaluation of the work of four key playwrights from that decade authored by a team of experts, together with an extensive commentary on the period. The 1960s was a decade of seismic changes in British theatre as in society at large. This important new study in Methuen Drama's Decades of Modern British Playwriting series explores how theatre- makers responded to the changes in society. Together with a thorough survey of the theatrical activity of the decade it offers detailed reassessments of the work of four of the leading playwrights. The 1960s volume provides in-depth studies of the work of four of the major playwrights who came to prominence: Edward Bond (by Steve Nicholson), John Arden (Bill McDonnell), Harold Pinter (Jamie Andrews) and Alan Ayckbourn (Frances Babbage). It examines their work then, its legacy today, and how critical consensus has changed over time.
This study of the reaction to forced busing in Boston (Massachusetts) that emerged in 1974 illustrates the persistence of race and class discrimination and the counterproductiveness of some imposed ...solutions. It is focused on white antibusing groups and the complexities of opposition to busing. Racism is essential to understanding the Boston response, but it is not the sole explanation of the resistance to court-ordered desegregation. Nor was the antibusing response a simple manifestation of class conflict, although that undoubtedly played a role. The situation in Boston is examined from its beginnings in the late 1960s and early 1970s through its winding down in the 1980s. The experiences of Boston, and those of school desegregation plans in general, show that partial remedies and remedies that are aimed only at less-affluent Whites are doomed to failure. What has worked best are plans with clear legal requirements consistently enforced by the courts, plans that do not leave out sectors of the population or allow escape over political boundaries. Five tables in the text and three in an appendix of citizen-survey results present findings about public opinion. (SLD)
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