Refrigeration brought distant production centers and the North American population together. It tore down the barriers of climates and seasons. And while it helped to rev up industrial processes, it became an industry itself.
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History Magazine - The Impact of Refrigeration - 0 views
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Ice was harvested and stored in China before the first millennium. Hebrews, Greeks, and Romans placed large amounts of snow into storage pits and covered this cooling agent with insulating material.
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Reaganomics, by William A. Niskanen: The Concise Encyclopedia of Economics | Library of... - 0 views
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Reaganomics" was the most serious attempt to change the course of U.S. economic policy of any administration since the New Deal.
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These major policy changes, in turn, were expected to increase saving and investment, increase economic growth, balance the budget, restore healthy financial markets, and reduce inflation and interest rates.
Trickle-down Economics and Ronald Reagan - 0 views
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no significant barrier to the accumulation of wealth by individuals
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If the rich do well, benefits will "trickle down" to the rest.
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To qualify as TDE a country must have either a low or flat rate tax on income or only a mildly progressive one (to insure that the rich can continue to get richer, or to trick the poor and middle income people into thinking they can get more and keep it).
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