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This is a personal project by @dellsystem. I built this to help me retain information from the books I'm reading.

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inter alia

They argue, inter alia, that consolidating in a downturn is twice as risky as doing it in an upturn

—p.215 Austerity's Natural History, 1914-2012 (178) by Mark Blyth
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Wagner Act

reflationary road the the Roosevelt administration took through the depression years [...] the National Industrial Recovery Act and the Agrictultural Adjustment Act through the Social Security Act and the Wagner Act's focus on maintaining consumption

—p.188 Austerity's Natural History, 1914-2012 (178) by Mark Blyth
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fiat

when you hand over your goods (an export) to someone far away, that the money in which they will pay you back (as payment for their import) is not just a pile of worthless paper--the so-called fiat money problem?

—p.180 Austerity's Natural History, 1914-2012 (178) by Mark Blyth
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structural adjustment programs

EU policy in the European periphery as little more than a localized set of structural adjustment policies

—p.163 The Intellectual History of a Dangerous Idea, 1942-2012 (132) by Mark Blyth
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