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    A Comparison of Medieval and Modern Price Fixing
    (University of Oregon, 1935-09) Greer, Virginia Leonard
    History should not be regarded as the “dry bones closed quote of the past, unreal, and of no significance for the present. Governments in the past have faced serious economic crises, unemployment, agricultural discontent, burdensome taxation and depression. While it cannot, with any degree of exactitude, be said that history repeats itself, because of the innumerable factors which serve to make each historical event unique in itself nevertheless man's proposed solution for the changing economic and social problems offers little variation. The problems of agriculture and unemployment relief, the issues bearing upon inflation, a “managed” currency, and price fixing all sound familiar. They are present day economic problems of the first order, but ancient history records them as problems of antiquity. Not only are the natures of the problems similar but the attempted solutions are similar as well even though history has demonstrated that one of the attempted solutions are unworkable. The philosopher, Hagel, has pessimistically summarized the situation in his statement that, “-- what experience and history teach is this,-- that peoples and governments never have learned anything from history, or acted on principles deducted from it.”
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    Twenty-Five Years of farm-Mortgage Finance in the United States with Special Reference to the State of Kansas
    (University of Oregon, 1943-06) De Young, Wilbur
    Since the dawn of history land has been of primary importance as a source of livelihood for mankind. The history of the development and utilization of land serves well in describing the development of civilization itself. Its importance in the total economy of past and present generations has been universally recognized by economists, and consequently, a vast number of chapters and volumes have been devoted to the science of land economics. However, in spite of the attention which the agriculturalist has received in the realm of the economic studies, the problems connected with the land are far from having been solved. And, although for many years the United States has been developing into a highly industrialized nation, the products of agriculture continue to hold a key position in our national economy. Moreover, the influence which the congressional; representatives of the farming industry exert upon the nation as a whole is so great that we can ill afford the neglect making a continual honest effort to solve the problems of agriculture in the best interests of our total.