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Trump Says the WTO is a Disaster
Debaere, PeterCase DARDEN-GEM-0152-EEconomicsIn 2017, it was a challenge to assess the future of global trade. It was an open question whether the US financial crisis and the recession that it triggered would mark a turning point for the liberal post–World War II world order. If one looked toward Europe, China, Latin America, and Japan, there was a flurry of activity. New trade agreements were being completed and pursued. In Washington, DC, on the other hand, President Donald Trump seemed s...Starting at €8.20
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Policy Responses to Modern Economic Crises
Murphy, DanielCase DARDEN-GEM-0182EconomicsIn March 2020, Jay Powell, Federal Reserve (Fed) chairperson, faced a daunting prospect that only a few months prior seemed like a remote possibility: massive expansion of the Fed’s balance sheet. Over the past five years, the economy had experienced steady economic growth, permitting the Fed to reduce its balance sheet. The Fed’s economists expected the trend to continue. But the rapidly spreading global coronavirus pandemic (known as COVID-19)...Starting at €8.20
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1990 USSR: Reform, Revolution, or Retrenchment (B)
Bruner, Robert F.; Zelikow, Carolyn; De Notto, ChristopherCase DARDEN-F-1970-EFinanceIn August 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev, president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, confronted one of the most difficult dilemmas of his career: how to improve the country’s economic performance. This case set highlights Gorbachev’s reform efforts from 1985 to 1990. Numerous measures of economic performance had declined, and the USSR faced serious crises of economic...Starting at €5.74
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1990 USSR: Reform, Revolution, or Retrenchment (A)
Bruner, Robert F.; Zelikow, Carolyn; De Notto, ChristopherCase DARDEN-F-1969-EFinanceIn August 1990, Mikhail Gorbachev, president of the Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (USSR) and general secretary of the Central Committee of the Communist Party, confronted one of the most difficult dilemmas of his career: how to improve the country’s economic performance. This case set highlights Gorbachev’s reform efforts from 1985 to 1990. Numerous measures of economic performance had declined, and the USSR faced serious crises of economic...Starting at €8.20
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Eurozone at 21: A Monetary Union Without Growth?
Warnock, Francis E.Case DARDEN-GEM-0178-EEconomicsThis case addresses the troubles facing the eurozone in early 2021. Was the area doomed to low (or no) growth? Had the eurozone’s high-profile financial crises in Greece, Ireland, and Cyprus given way to the type of slow rotting of society that leads to revolutions? Was the COVID-19 pandemic the final nail in the union’s coffin? Or would the pandemic, notwithstanding the enormous and devastating toll on the union’s citizens, jar the eurozone out ...Starting at €8.20