… Discusses the political, economic, and cultural life of the United States in the 1950s,
including the effects of the Cold War, the civil rights movement, television, music, art, science …

… The average economist in our decade of the 1950s, despite Arrow and Debreu, found it
difficult to grasp an equilibrium concept based on the formal logic of fixedpoint proofs, lacking …

… It was men in the 1950s who had to fit directly into the corporate world and it was about them
that most of this work was written. This literature, then, comes to issues of gender, if it does …

… By the end of the 1950s we were ripe for the 1960s, and the following decade might have
been far less tumultuous and far less traumatic if only some of the bright young quantifiers had …

… the first major political movement of dissent from the Cold War consensus: the “Ban the Bomb”
marches of the late 1950s… near and dear from the anticipated general apocalypse through …

… The development of the hydrogen bomb in the 1950s accelerated the tension between the
United States and the Soviet Union (a nation in Eastern Europe and northern and central Asia …

… has been very inffuential in foreign aid debates since the 1950s. This was the original
justification for foreign aid. The narrative lost credibility for a while but has made a big comeback in …

… if we got rid of the decade concept altogether. It is the changes of the 1950s that we ought to
… there in my own mind in the 1940s, and I think that they were accentuated by the war and by …

… recall the way oflife in Western Europe at the eve of the 1950s. Wages covered basic needs
without offering large surpluses for the choice of individual lifestyles. Most of the household …

… Political identities were shaped around the axis of gender. In the late 1940s and early 1950s,
both the present of the cold war and the past of the shooting war that ended in May 1945 …