Pay for conservatism?... The Swiss case is of interest because Switzerland was a key member of the gold bloc, and much of the modern academic literature on the Great Depression tries to explain why Switzerland and the other gold bloc countries, France, and the Netherlands, remained on the gold standard until the bitter end....
Implications of the russian crisis... The article contests this view and reveals a number of fundamental reasons that have brought a decade of market romanticism to a bitter end....
Invitation to the dance: lessons from susanSusan Sontag’s death was difficult: difficult forher because she fought it to a bitter end in atreatment regime that inflicted considerable physical and mental suffering on her, and difficult, too, for her son, David Rieff, as he testified in a sober and ...
A biography of robert de kersauson, french volunteer with the booer commandoes...of the most colourful foreign volunteers in the Boer army in 1900-1902 was Robert de Kersauson de Pennendreff; young, handsome, gallant and devoted to the Boer cause until the bitter end of the war....