I'll have a think........
one immediate event springs to mind - for good or ill
- PRIVATISATION in the 1980s.
Colin Harber Stuart
--- Geoff Riley <[log in to unmask]> wrote:
> www.dismal.com the well-known US based economics
> site is running a series
> on the 25 greatest economic events of the century.
>
> Their proposed list is as follows:
>
> Top Economic Events of the 20th Century
> Rank Event Year
> 1. The Federal Reserve Act 1913
> 2. Ford begins production of the Model T 1913
> 3. Social Security Act and Medicare Act 1935, 1965
> 4. Interstate highway system 1956
> 5. Apple IIe 1983
> 6. 1929 stock market crash 1929
> 7. Berlin blockade and the collapse of the Berlin
> Wall 1948, 1989
> 8. Establishment of GATT 1947
> 9. Federal income tax and withholding enacted 1913,
> 1942
> 10. Bretton Woods and its collapse 1944, 1971
> 11. Bank America introduces first credit card 1958
> 12. Breakup of Standard Oil 1911
> 13. Civil Rights Act passed 1964
> 14. OPEC oil embargo 1973
> 15. First Web browser introduced 1994
> 16. Flint, Michigan United Auto Workers strike 1936
> 17. Home mortgage interest rate tax deduction 1913
> 18. Commercial distribution of birth control pill
> 1960
> 19. Minimum wage law enacted 1938
> 20. First radio broadcast 1906
> 21. Publication of "The General Theory of
> Employment, Interest and Money"
> 1926
> 22. Glass-Steagall Act 1933
> 23. GI Bill of Rights 1944
> 24. TWA's first all-air transcontinental service
> 1930
> 25. GNMA issues the mortgage-backed security 1970
>
> Can we improve on this selection. If so I am happy
> to collate the replies
> and then send them en masse to the Dismal team for a
> UK based alternative!
>
> Get thinking econ business educators !!!
>
> Geoff
> www.tutor2u.com
>
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