Encyclopedia - 1950s: Encyclopedia - 1950s
1920s 1930s 1940s - 1950s - 1960s 1970s 1980s 1950 1951 1952 1953 1954 1955 1956 1957 1958 1959 1950s - Events and trends. The 1950s in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1950s: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950s - Events And Trends
The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-t...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1950s: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950s - Events And Trends
The 1950s in Western society was marked with a sharp rise in the economy for the first time in almost 30 years and return to the 1920s-ty...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1940s: Encyclopedia - 1940s
1910s 1920s 1930s - 1940s - 1950s 1960s 1970s 1940 1941 1942 1943 1944 1945 1946 1947 1948 1949 1940s - Events and trends. The 1940s we...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Boat Car: Encyclopedia - Boat Car
A boat is an informal (although once widely used) term for the massive cars produced by the Detroit manufacturers during the 1950s and on...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Colombo Plan: Encyclopedia - Colombo Plan
The Colombo Plan began in 1951, and is a regional organisation focused on social development. It is based in Colombo, Sri Lanka. It provi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Five-year Plan: Encyclopedia - Five-year Plan
Five-Year Plans for the National Economy of the USSR or Piatiletkai (пятилетка) were a series of nation-wide centralized exercis...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Albert Grossman: Encyclopedia - Albert Grossman
Albert B. Grossman (born 1926 Chicago; died 1986) is best known as the manager of Bob Dylan. Grossman was born to Russian-Jewish immigran...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1930s: Encyclopedia - 1930s
1900s 1910s 1920s - 1930s - 1940s 1950s 1960s 1930 1931 1932 1933 1934 1935 1936 1937 1938 1939 1930s - Events and trends. The 1930s wer...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - African Socialism: Encyclopedia - African Socialism
African socialism is the belief in the doctrine of sharing economic resources in a "traditional" African way, as compared to classical so...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1920s: Encyclopedia - 1920s
1890s 1900s 1910s - 1920s - 1930s 1940s 1950s 1920 1921 1922 1923 1924 1925 1926 1927 1928 1929 Sometimes referred to as the "Jazz Age" o...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Candu Reactor: Encyclopedia - Candu Reactor
The CANDU reactor is a pressurized-heavy water,(PHWR) natural uranium (i.e. unenriched) power reactor designed in the late 1950s and 1960...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Belgium: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Belgium - Post-war Economic Growth
During the period 1945-1975, Keynesian economic theory guided politicians throughout Western Europe and this was particularly influential...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Belgium: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Belgium - After Wwii
History of Belgium - The royal question. See main article Léopold III of Belgium A dispute over King Léopold III's conduct during W...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Belgium: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Belgium - Independence
In August 1830, stirred by a performance of Auber's La Muette de Portici at the Brussels opera house La Monnaie (Dutch: De Munt), the Bel...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Belgium: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Belgium - From The Independence To Wwi
List of Prime Ministers of Belgium List of Belgian monarchs History of Belgium - Laicity and catholicism. In the 19th century, the B...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Belgium: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Belgium - From Wwi To Wwii
History of Belgium - World War I. The neutrality of Belgium was violated in 1914 when Germany invaded Belgium as part of the Schlieffen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Belgium: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Belgium - Before Independence
History of Belgium - Prehistory. Around 400,000 BC Neandertals lived on the edge of the Meuse river, near the village of Spy. From 30,0...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japan-united States Relations: Encyclopedia Ii - Japan-united States Relations - Political Relations
Japan-United States relations - Post-war occupation period. Main article: Occupied Japan Japan-United States relations - 1950s: After ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japan-united States Relations: Encyclopedia Ii - Japan-united States Relations - Economic Relations
Japan-United States relations - Trade volume. The United States has been Japan's largest economic partner, taking 31.5 percent of its e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japanese Post-war Economic Miracle: Encyclopedia Ii - Japanese Post-war Economic Miracle - Miti
The Ministry of International Trade and Industry (MITI) was instrumental in Japan's post-war economic recovery. According to some scholar...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Levuka: Encyclopedia Ii - Levuka - Economic Activities
Levuka's status as a stopover port for ocean vessels crossing the Pacific came to an end in the 1950s, threatening the town with economic...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Wirtschaftswunder: Encyclopedia Ii - Wirtschaftswunder - West Germany
The West German Wirtschaftswunder was partly due to the economic aid provided by the United States and the Marshall Plan and through the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Alan Greenspan: Encyclopedia Ii - Alan Greenspan - Early Life
Dr. Greenspan was born to a Jewish family in New York City in 1926. He studied at Juilliard from 1943 to 1944 and is known as an accompli...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bosanska Krajina: Encyclopedia Ii - Bosanska Krajina - Economics
In the immediate aftermath of WWII Bosanska Krajina was considered one of the poorest regions of Bosnia and Herzegovina. This poverty was...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - John Muth: Encyclopedia Ii - John Muth - Gsia
Two divergent approaches to economic modelling, which have later become cornerstones of modelling of economic systems, originated at the ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Land Trust: Encyclopedia Ii - Land Trust - Community Land Trusts
Land trust communities trace their conceptual history to India's gramdans where villages held property in the community interest, and to ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japan-united States Relations: Encyclopedia Ii - Japan-united States Relations - Early Historical Relations
Numerous exchanges occurred between Japan and the Northern American continent during Japan's Nanban trade period in the early 17th centur...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Japan-united States Relations: Encyclopedia Ii - Japan-united States Relations - Military Relations
The 1952 Mutual Security Assistance Pact provided the initial basis for the nation's security relations with the United States. The pact ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - János Kornai: Encyclopedia Ii - János Kornai - Works
In the late 1950s, he was among those initiating the use of mathematical methods in economic planning. He elaborated the theory of two-le...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Lawrence Klein: Encyclopedia Ii - Lawrence Klein - Publications
Klein's publications include: An essay on the theory of economic prediction (With Jaime Marquez, ????) ISBN 0841020051 Economic Flu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Bugis Street: Encyclopedia Ii - Bugis Street - Historical
Bugis Street lies in an extensive area which was commonly referred to in the past, by the Chinese-educated community, as Xiao Po (小坡;...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of The People's Republic Of China: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of The People's Republic Of China - The Mao Era
History of the People's Republic of China - Social Reformation. The new government assumed control of a people exhausted by two generat...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Uruguay: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Uruguay - 20th Century
José Batlle y Ordóñez, president from 1903 to 1907 and again from 1911 to 1915, set the pattern for Uruguay's modern political develop...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mattoon Illinois: Encyclopedia Ii - Mattoon Illinois - Recent History And Current Issues
In 1940, the discovery of petroleum reserves in the countryside immediately surrounding Mattoon led to a small "oil boom" in the 1940s an...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Economy Of Iran: Encyclopedia Ii - Economy Of Iran - Foreign Trade And Economic Relations
Iran's major commercial partners are France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Russia, China, Japan and South Korea. From 1950 until 1978, the Unite...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - St Antony's College Oxford: Encyclopedia Ii - St Antony's College Oxford - History
St Antony's was founded in 1950 as the result of the gift of Antonin Besse of Aden, a merchant of French descent. Its role was "to be a c...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - General Equilibrium: Encyclopedia Ii - General Equilibrium - Modern Concept Of General Equilibrium In Economics
The modern conception of general equilibrium is provided by a model developed jointly by Kenneth Arrow and Gerard Debreu in the 1950s. Ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - General Equilibrium: Encyclopedia Ii - General Equilibrium - Modern Concept Of General Equilibrium In Economics
The modern conception of general equilibrium is provided by a model developed jointly by Kenneth Arrow and Gerard Debreu in the 1950s. Ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Nuclear Marine Propulsion: Encyclopedia Ii - Nuclear Marine Propulsion - Civil Vessels
Development of nuclear merchant ships began in the 1950s but has not been commercially successful. The US-built NS Savannah, was commissi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Economy Of Haiti: Encyclopedia Ii - Economy Of Haiti - Agriculture
Agriculture occupies the dominate position in Haiti's economy. However, migration to the cities has changed much of this since the 1950s....   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ludwig Von Mises: Encyclopedia Ii - Ludwig Von Mises - Libertarianism
In the U.S. he became the spiritus rector of the renascent libertarian movement, to which he gave a distinct Austrian School flavor. Clos...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - E. F. Schumacher: Encyclopedia Ii - E. F. Schumacher - Later Life And Posthumous Recognition
Schumacher's rejection of materialist, capitalist, agnostic modernity was paralleled by a growing fascination with religion. His interest...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Economy Of Austria: Encyclopedia Ii - Economy Of Austria - History
Ever since the end of the Second World War Austria has achieved sustained economic growth. In the souring 1950s the rebuilding efforts fo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Samizdat: Encyclopedia Ii - Samizdat - History In The Ussr
Self-published and self-distributed literature has a long history, but samizdat is a unique phenomenon in the post-Stalin USSR and other ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Planning Commission Of India: Encyclopedia Ii - Planning Commission Of India - History
Rudimentary economic planning, deriving the sovereign authority of the state, first began in India in 1930s under the British Raj, and th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - British Rail Railbuses: Encyclopedia Ii - British Rail Railbuses - First Generation Br Railbuses
In the late 1950s, British Rail tested a series of small Railbuses, produced by a variety of manufacturers. These proved to be very econo...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - António De Oliveira Salazar: Encyclopedia Ii - António De Oliveira Salazar - Economic Policies
Economically, the Salazar years were marked by immensely increased growth, from 1950 until his death, Portugal saw its GDP per capita ris...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sino-japanese Relations: Encyclopedia Ii - Sino-japanese Relations - Trade Resumes 1960s
With the deterioration of the Sino-Soviet relations in the late 1950/early 1960s and the resulting economic crisis, the PRC became more e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reginald Maudling: Encyclopedia Ii - Reginald Maudling - Ministerial Office In The 1950s
Following the 1951 election, Churchill made Maudling a junior Minister at the Ministry of Civil Aviation. However, his experience of prep...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Clement Attlee: Encyclopedia Ii - Clement Attlee - Early Political Career
During the war Atlee served in Gallipoli and Mesopotamia , where he was badly wounded at El Hanna. He recovered back in England, and was ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Colectivo: Encyclopedia Ii - Colectivo - Usage In Buenos Aires
The frequency of the colectivos in the city of Buenos Aires makes them equal to the subway systems of other cities, but on wheels. Howeve...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - General Equilibrium: Encyclopedia Ii - General Equilibrium - Modern Concept Of General Equilibrium In Economics
The modern conception of general equilibrium is provided by a model developed jointly by Kenneth Arrow and Gerard Debreu in the 1950s. Ge...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands: Encyclopedia Ii - Heard Island And Mcdonald Islands - Administration And Economy
The islands are a territory of Australia administered from Hobart by the Australian Antarctic Division of the Australian Department of th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Noel Annan: Encyclopedia Ii - Noel Annan - Academic Career
Annan returned to King's in 1946, where he had been elected to a fellowship in absentia in 1944. He joined the economics faculty and lect...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sino-indian Relations: Encyclopedia Ii - Sino-indian Relations - History
Sino-Indian relations - Pre-modern. India and China had relatively little political contact before the 1950s. Despite this, both countr...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Foreign Relations Of North Korea: Encyclopedia Ii - Foreign Relations Of North Korea - Relations Outside The Peninsula
After 1945, the Soviet Union supplied the economic and military aid that enabled North Korea to mount its invasion of the South in 1950. ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Taiwanese American: Encyclopedia Ii - Taiwanese American - Immigration
From the late 1950s until the 1970s, many well educated Taiwanese came to the United States to fill in the brain drain going on at the ti...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - James R. Schlesinger: Encyclopedia Ii - James R. Schlesinger - Early Life And Career
Schlesinger was born in New York City and educated at Harvard University, where he earned a B.A. (1950), M.A. (1952), and Ph.D. (1956) in...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - George M. Leader: Encyclopedia Ii - George M. Leader - The Leader Administration
Significant issues facing the Leader Administration included the economy and an insolvent state budget. While post World War II economic ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - United States Naval Reactor: Encyclopedia Ii - United States Naval Reactor - Civil Vessels
Development of nuclear merchant ships began in the 1950s but has not been commercially successful. The US-built NS Savannah, was commissi...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ribeirão Preto: Encyclopedia Ii - Ribeirão Preto - Education
A noteworthy fact is that it was during the economic stagnation period from the 1940s to the 1950s that the city discovered and establish...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kamisese Mara: Encyclopedia Ii - Kamisese Mara - Evaluation
Ratu Mara is regarded as modern Fiji's founding father. He not only led the islands to independence from British rule, and served the cou...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - East Pakistan: Encyclopedia Ii - East Pakistan - After Independence From British Rule
After independence from British rule, East Pakistan was dominated and neglected by the Pakistani government, which was dominated by the P...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Supersonic Transport: Encyclopedia Ii - Supersonic Transport - History
Throughout the 1950s an SST looked possible, but it was not clear whether or not it could be made economically viable. There was a good a...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Angola: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Angola - Independence Movements
Colonial economic development did not translate into social development for native Angolans. The Portuguese regime encouraged white immig...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Reginald Maudling: Encyclopedia Ii - Reginald Maudling - Chancellor Of The Exchequer
As Chancellor of the Exchequer, Maudling soon cut Purchase tax and bank interest rates. His 1963 budget aimed at "expansion without infla...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Snoqualmie Washington: Encyclopedia Ii - Snoqualmie Washington - Economy
Until recently, logging and Weyerhaeuser’s milling operations was the mainstay of the local economy. Since 1989, the company has run a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Mona Lisa Smile: Encyclopedia Ii - Mona Lisa Smile - Synopsis
Mona Lisa Smile tells the story of a feminist teacher ("Katherine Watson"), who, after graduating from the University of California, Berk...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Libertarianism: Encyclopedia Ii - Libertarianism - Terminology
The term "libertarianism" in the above political sense has been in widespread use since the 1950s. Originally, in the 18th century, it re...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Economy Of India: Encyclopedia Ii - Economy Of India - Sectors
Economy of India - Agriculture. Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry, logging and fishing accounted for 25% of the GDP, employe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1940s: Encyclopedia Ii - 1940s - Events And Trends
The 1940s were seen as a transition period between the radical 1930s and the conservative 1950s, which also leads the period to be divid...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Economy Of India: Encyclopedia Ii - Economy Of India - Sectors
Economy of India - Agriculture. Agriculture and allied sectors like forestry, logging and fishing accounted for 25% of the GDP, employe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Japan: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Japan - Post-occupation Japan
Main Article: Post-Occupation Japan From the 1950s to the 1980s, Japan's history consists mainly of its rapid development into a first-ra...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Comecon: Encyclopedia Ii - Comecon - Membership
In the late 1950s, a number of other communist-ruled countries--China, the Democratic People's Republic of Korea (North Korea), Mongolia,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Paul H. Nitze School Of Advanced International Studies: Encyclopedia Ii - Paul H. Nitze School Of Advanced International Studies - History
SAIS was founded in 1943 by Paul Nitze and Christian Herter and became part of the Johns Hopkins University in 1950. The school was estab...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Malcolm Young: Encyclopedia Ii - Malcolm Young - Before Ac/dc
Influenced by 1950s rock and roll, and blues based rock guitarists of the 1960s and 1970s, he is regarded as a leading rock exponent of r...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Exogenous Growth Model: Encyclopedia Ii - Exogenous Growth Model - Development Of The Model
The Neo-classical model was an extension to the Harrod-Domar model including a new term, productivity growth. The most important contribu...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - List Of U.s. Foreign Interventions Since 1945: Encyclopedia Ii - List Of U.s. Foreign Interventions Since 1945 - Other Interventions
In addition to the operations listed above, the US has a very active foreign policy that uses various methods to influence events in othe...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Planned Unit Development: Encyclopedia Ii - Planned Unit Development - History
The origins of PUDs in the new American communities can be traced to British movements during the 1950’s. The developments in Britain�...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Thomas Mesereau: Encyclopedia Ii - Thomas Mesereau - Education And Early Career
Born in West Point, New York in 1950 to an affluent yet politically liberal former Military Academy football assistant coach and his wife...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Ghetto: Encyclopedia Ii - Ghetto - South African Ghettos
The Group Areas Act (27 April 1950) barred people of particular races from various urban areas. Soweto is a mostly black urban area to th...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Brazil 1945-1964: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Brazil 1945-1964 - End Of The Estado Novo
As World War II ended with Brazil participating on the Allied side, President Getúlio Vargas moved to liberalize his own fascist-influen...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Burkhard Heim: Encyclopedia Ii - Burkhard Heim - Legacy
The full delineation of his work covers about 2000 pages, and was written almost entirely in isolation from university life. The primary ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Independent India: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Independent India - The 1970s And Emergency
Main Articles: Bangladesh Liberation War, Indian Emergency, Janata Party In 1966, power passed to Nehru's daughter, Indira Gandhi, who se...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Grand Prix Motor Racing: Encyclopedia Ii - Grand Prix Motor Racing - The Post-war Years And Formula One
In 1946, following World War II, there were only four races of Grand Prix caliber held. Rules for a Grand Prix World Championship had bee...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Disc Jockey: Encyclopedia Ii - Disc Jockey - Dj Control And Economics
Throughout the 1950s, payola was an ongoing problem. Part of the fallout from that payola scandal was tighter control of the music by sta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Disc Jockey: Encyclopedia Ii - Disc Jockey - Dj Control And Economics
Throughout the 1950s, payola was an ongoing problem. Part of the fallout from that payola scandal was tighter control of the music by sta...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Getúlio Vargas: Encyclopedia Ii - Getúlio Vargas - Second Presidency
Vargas returned to politics in 1950, and through the free and secret ballot he was re-elected President of the Republic. His administrati...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organization For Security And Co-operation In Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Organization For Security And Co-operation In Europe - History
The organization was established in 1973 as the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE). Talks had been mooted about a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Independent India: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Independent India - The Era Of Coalitions
On May 27, 1991, while Rajiv Gandhi campaigned in Tamil Nadu on behalf of Congress (I), assassins, apparently Sri Lankan Tamil extremists...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Demographics Of Japan: Encyclopedia Ii - Demographics Of Japan - Migration
Between 6 million and 7 million people moved their residences each year during the 1980s. About 50 percent of these moves were within the...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Urban Renewal: Encyclopedia Ii - Urban Renewal - Urban Destruction
Under the powerful influence of multimillionaire R.K. Mellon, Pittsburgh became the first major city to undertake a modern urban-renewal ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - History Of Poznań: Encyclopedia Ii - History Of Poznań - Poznań In People's Republic Of Poland 1945–1989
to be written yet The first years after WWII (1945-1948 were the era of enthusiasm for peace and freedom, rebuilding the city from ruins,...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Sandra Day O'connor: Encyclopedia Ii - Sandra Day O'connor - Life And History
O'Connor was born in El Paso, Texas and grew up on a cattle ranch in the southeastern Arizona town of Duncan. She later wrote a book titl...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Transport In Glasgow: Encyclopedia Ii - Transport In Glasgow - Trams
Glasgow had for many years an extensive system of trams that ran on the city's streets alongside other traffic. However, by the 1950s muc...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Political Parties In Belgium: Encyclopedia Ii - Political Parties In Belgium - Linguistic Parties
A specific phenomenon in Belgium was the emergence of one-issue parties whose only reason for existence was the defense of the cultural, ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Organization For Security And Co-operation In Europe: Encyclopedia Ii - Organization For Security And Co-operation In Europe - History
The organization was established in 1973 as the Conference for Security and Co-operation in Europe (CSCE). Talks had been mooted about a ...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - Kent International Airport: Encyclopedia Ii - Kent International Airport - Post-1990
Manston is now a wholly commercial airport. In 1998 Thanet District Council produced the Isle of Thanet local plan which recognised the e...   » Read the article

Encyclopedia - 1950s: Encyclopedia Ii - 1950s - People
1950s - World leaders. Prime Minister Robert Menzies (Australia) Prime Minister Louis St. Laurent (Canada) Prime Minister John Diefenb...   » Read the article