Repeating History
Richard Hacken, European Studies Librarian, was recently looking through some pamphlets and other rare items in BYU’s collections:
“I noticed some parallels between our own finances, banks, toxic real estate assets, and economic recovery plans and those of Austria in earlier years.”
Here are four of the titles he mentions, with translations:
1862: Die dringende Nothwendigkeit zur unverzüglichen Expropriation des Privilegiums der Bank zu Gunsten der gesammten Völker Oesterreichs…
1862: The Acute Need for Immediate Expropriation of Bank Privileges for the Benefit of the Entire Austrian People…
1912: Zur Lösung der Wohnungsfrage in Österreich…
1912: On Solving the Housing Problem in Austria…
1927: Bankenskandal: Eine Billion Steuergelder verschleudert!
1927: Bank Scandal: One Trillion (yes, trillion – false cognate) in Tax Money Down the Rat Hole!
1932: Wiederaufbau der Wirtschaft durch international organisierte Selbsthilfe…
1932: Economic Recovery through Internationally Organized Self-Help…
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