科目：经济史二 教授：魏凯立 试别：期中考 时间：95.4.17 by neverneverfu 试题 : Economic History Midterm (Please answer 3 of 5 question sets) 1.(a)Why did U.S. President Hoover raise taxes during the depression? (b)State one way in which Hoover & Roosevelt's economic policies differed. (c)Why did President Roosevelt want to establish cartels during the depression? (d)Why did Roosevelt devalue the U.S. dollar during the depression? (e)Name one type of business that did relatively well during the depression. 2.(a)How has institutional investment in the U.S. stock market changed over the last 50 years? (b)In what sense have institutional investors replaced corporate raiders? (c)State one legal change that has encouraged increased scale in the U.S. banking industry. (d)Why did the U.S. government think it necessary to float the U.S. dollar in the 1970s ? (e)Name one institution created at the postwar Bretton Woods meeting. 3.(a)Why did U.S. President Nixon think wage & price controls were necessary in the 1970s ? (b)How well did the wage & price controls succeed ? (c)Name one U.S. industry that was having trouble in the 1970s. (d)Name one U.S. industry that was doing well in the 1970s. (e)Why was the Nuclear Regulatory Angency established? 4.(a)How were Louis Wolfson("the junkman") and T.Boone Pickens similar? (b)How were they different? (c)How did Michael Milken help people like T.Boone Pickens? (d)Briefly explain one way CEOs tried to resist people like T.Boone Pickens. (e)What is a junk bond ? 5.(a&b)State two ways in which British & U.S. economic policy differed after World War two . (c)State one way in which French and West German economic policy differed. (d)On which continent did U.S. direct foreign investment increase most after the war ? (e)How did divisionalization affect U.S foreign investment ? ---------------------------------------------------------------------- ∮完卷∮ -- 陷自己於忙碌之中　也许不寂寞但却很孤独...... 陪伴的人也许很多　不孤独却不代表不寂寞...... --

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