Economics Events

Question 1

Invention of the Wheel

Answer 1

-3500

Question 2

Fallait of the roman empire

Answer 2

476

Question 3

Discovery of America by Christopher Columbus

Answer 3

October 12, 1492

Question 4

Double-entry book keeping (Luca Pacioli)

Answer 4

1494

Question 5

Discovery of the sea route to India by Vasco da Gama

Answer 5

May 20, 1498

Question 6

Tulip crisis in the Netherlands

Answer 6

1637

Question 7

Adam Smith publishes «The Wealth of Nations»

Answer 7

March 9,1776

Question 8

Thomas Malthus publishes his essay on «the Principale of population»

Answer 8

1798

Question 9

David Riccardo introduces the theory of comparative advantage

Answer 9

1817

Question 10

Karl Marx publishes «capital»

Answer 10

1867

Question 11

Wall Street Crash, triggering the great dépression and disrupting the global economy

Answer 11

1929

Question 12

New deal in the United States (Roosevelt)

Answer 12

1933

Question 13

John Maynard Keynes publishes «the Genreal Theory of Employement, Interest of money»

Answer 13

1936

Question 14

Bretton Woods Agreements (new international monetary system)

Answer 14

1944

Question 15

Bretton Woods Agreements (new international monetary system)

Answer 15

1944

Question 16

Création of the GATT (Général Agreement on Tarrifs and Trade)

Answer 16

1947

Question 17

First oil shock

Answer 17

1973

Question 18

Fall of the Berlin Wall

Answer 18

November, 1989

Question 19

Creation of the World Trade Organisation (WTO)

Answer 19

1995