This time is different : eight centuries of financial folly /

This time is different : eight centuries of financial folly /

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Author / Creator:	Reinhart, Carmen M.
Imprint:	Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009.
Description:	1 online resource ( xlv, 463 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Financial crises -- Case studies. Fiscal policy -- Case studies. Business cycles -- Case studies. Business cycles. Financial crises. Fiscal policy.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12713990

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Other authors / contributors:	Rogoff, Kenneth S.
ISBN:	9781400831968 1400831962 9781400831722 1400831725 9786612935930 6612935936 9780691142166 0691142165 9786612608179 661260817X 9781400841127 400841127 9780691152646 0691152640 6612935936
Digital file characteristics:	data file
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references (pages 409-433) and indexes. Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 In English. digitized 2011 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve Print version record.
Awards:	Winner of the 2010 TIAA-CREF Paul A. Samuelson Award Association of American Publishers PROSE Award, 2009.
Other form:	Print version: Reinhart, Carmen M. This time is different. Princeton : Princeton University Press, ©2009 9780691142166
Standard no.:	10.1515/9781400831722 99956733333

Table of Contents:

List of Illustrations
Preface
Acknowledgments
Chapter I. P Aleppo
"Prayer is better than sleep"
Imad's Japanese Girlfriend
Farce
"I would rather have children than fly"
"Once you love deeply, you never forget"
"My father says he saves for me"
"As long as she gets along with me, she will have no problems with my mother"
"Do you desire your mother?"
Traffic, or the Normal Order of Things
Preparing to Teach
Administrative Pleasantries
"But we are homophobic!"
"So, what do you think of Muslims?"
"I'd like to be the next president"
"The religious people see this and hate it, but they cannot turn it off"
"God will tell us when we have to do something"
"Kiss Daddy! Kiss Daddy!"
Chapter II. P The Souk
"Come into my shop and let me take you"
"Do you have a brother?"
"Ossi oder NorMAL?"
The Souk's Logic of Exchange
Fathers, Sons, Brothers, and Inheritance
Dream Collector
Dream of the Mistress
"How great is my disappointment when I see my dreams breaking down"
"Every woman thinks I only want to sleep with her"
Cell Phone, Cassettes, String Underwear
"That is fieldwork!"
"A father, perhaps a brother"
Fathers and Sons
"It is a blessing"
The Rumor
Chapter III. P Syria
"These are my children"
Aleppian Food, in Public
Obtaining an Exit Visa
The Ba'ath Party
Student Radicals
Teaching Anthropology and American Culture
Cat on a Hot Tin Roof
Wild Dog Attack
Chapter IV. P Reflections on Teaching and Learning in Syria
Pedagogy
Lectures
Films
Coda: January 2006
Further Reading
Index