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The Skyscraper Curse: And How Austrian Economists Predicted Every Major Economic Crisis of the Last Century
We don’t really know what starts the speculative bubbles. — Jesse Abraham and Patric Hendershott, “Bubbles in Metropolitan Housing Prices”
The Skyscraper Index was based on the most noteworthy business cycles of the twentieth century and can be explained using Austrian business cycle theory (ABCT). In contrast, there is no consensus within mainstream economics about business cycle theory. The Keynesians have several versions, but all are driven by psychology and changes in aggregate demand. This would include behavioral-finance economists such as Robert Shiller who believe that stock markets are irrational. There are also debt-cycle theories put forth by Irving Fisher, Hyman Minsky, and Joseph Schumpeter. There is the real business cycle theory (RBCT), which is associated with the Chicago school and embraces the role of external shocks, such as technological change.
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As the world focuses on the conflict in Iraq, the most important political players in that country today are not the Sunni insurgents. Instead, they are Iraq&#;s Shi’i majority&#;part of the Middle East&#;s ninety million Shi’i Muslims who hold the key to the future of the region and the relations between Muslim and Western societies. So contends Yitzhak Nakash, one of the world&#;s foremost experts on Shi’ism.
With his characteristic verve and style, Nakash traces the role of the Shi&#;is in the struggle that is raging today among Muslims for the soul of Islam. He shows that in contrast to the growing militancy among Sunni groups since the s, Shi&#;is have shifted their focus from confrontation to accommodation with the West. Constituting sixty percent of the population of Iraq, they stand squarely at the center of the U.S government&#;s attempt to remake the Middle East and bring democracy to the region. This groundbreaking book addresses the crucial importance of Shi&#;is to the
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Is there a universal concept of God? Do all the great faiths of the world share a vision of the same supreme reality? In an attempt to answer these questions, Keith Ward considers the doctrine of an ultimate reality within fem world religions &#; Hinduism, Buddhism, Islam, Judaism and Christianity. He studies closely the works of definitive, orthodox writers from each tradition &#; Sankara, Ramanuja, Asvaghosa, Maimonides, Al-Ghazzali and Aquinas &#; to build up a series of &#;images&#; of God, a common core of belief. Ward discovers that while the great religious traditions of the world retain their differences, there are convergences of thought at the deepest level, with a broad similarity of structure in concepts of God. He concludes that a recognition of these beliefs, as well as encouraging a clearer acceptance of the mystery of the gudomlig, might also lead to an increase in understanding and tolerance of other faiths, to the enrichment of one&#;s own.
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