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ETYMOLOGY OF THE WORD WIDOW'S CRUSE

Allusion to I Kings 17:16.
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PRONUNCIATION OF WIDOW'S CRUSE

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GRAMMATICAL CATEGORY OF WIDOW'S CRUSE

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Widow's cruse is a noun.
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WHAT DOES WIDOW'S CRUSE MEAN IN ENGLISH?

Definition of widow's cruse in the English dictionary

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WORDS THAT BEGIN LIKE WIDOW'S CRUSE

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widow´s weeds
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WORDS THAT END LIKE WIDOW'S CRUSE

abstruse
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cruse
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Father of the House
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mouse
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Synonyms and antonyms of widow's cruse in the English dictionary of synonyms

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Translation of «widow's cruse» into 25 languages

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TRANSLATION OF WIDOW'S CRUSE

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Translator English - Chinese

寡妇克鲁斯
1,325 millions of speakers

Translator English - Spanish

botija de viudedad
570 millions of speakers

English

widow´s cruse
510 millions of speakers

Translator English - Hindi

विधवा के Cruse
380 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Arabic

جمعية تطوعية الأرملة
280 millions of speakers

Translator English - Russian

кувшин вдовы
278 millions of speakers

Translator English - Portuguese

botija de viúva
270 millions of speakers

Translator English - Bengali

বিধবা এর cruse
260 millions of speakers

Translator English - French

la cruche de veuve
220 millions of speakers

Translator English - Malay

Janda janda
190 millions of speakers

Translator English - German

Witwe Cruse
180 millions of speakers

Translator English - Japanese

未亡人の小形のつぼ
130 millions of speakers

Translator English - Korean

과부의 항아리
85 millions of speakers

Translator English - Javanese

Jamban randha
85 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Vietnamese

Cruse góa phụ của
80 millions of speakers

Translator English - Tamil

விதவையின் உடை
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Marathi

विधवा च्या कुत्रा
75 millions of speakers

Translator English - Turkish

Dul çatlak
70 millions of speakers

Translator English - Italian

Cruse della vedova
65 millions of speakers

Translator English - Polish

Cruse wdowy
50 millions of speakers

Translator English - Ukrainian

глечик вдови
40 millions of speakers

Translator English - Romanian

ulcior văduvă
30 millions of speakers
el

Translator English - Greek

cruse χήρας
15 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Afrikaans

weduwee se kruik
14 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Swedish

änkas cruse
10 millions of speakers
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Translator English - Norwegian

enkes cruse
5 millions of speakers

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TENDENCIES OF USE OF THE TERM «WIDOW'S CRUSE»

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10 ENGLISH BOOKS RELATING TO «WIDOW'S CRUSE»

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Fabricating the Keynesian Revolution: Studies of the ...
125) The Widow's Cruse Fallacy Readers of the Treatise, not least Keynes's own younger colleagues at Cambridge, who constituted a self-styled "circus" of friendly critics of the book, soon noted a difficulty with that argument, to which one of ...
David Laidler, 1999
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Pay and Profits: The Theory of Distribution Reviewed in the ...
WIDOW'S. CRUSE. THEORIES. WE saw how it was a limitation of the monopolistic pricing theory that it concentrated upon the micro system and had nothing to say about the macro. The widow's cruse type of theory does just the opposite.
Sir Henry Phelps Brown, 1968
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The Widow's Cruse
A fact-inspired story, about a Jamaican wife of a Sephardic merchant in the eighteenth century.
Emma Donoghue, 2012
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Capital Controversy, Post Keynesian Economics and the ...
2 In post-Keynesian writing one often finds reference to the 'widow's cruse', Keynes's notion that expenditure on consumption out of profits itself becomes a source of revenue to firms over and above the wages they have paid out and so serves ...
Philip Arestis, Gabriel Palma, Malcolm Sawyer, 2005
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Sacred poetry of the seventeenth century: including the ...
... not bleed afresh, though thou be there : But if they do, that very blood thou spilt, Believe it, will plead thy pardon, not thy guilt. THE WIDOW'S CRUSE. Lord, I'm in debt, and have not wherewithal To pay : my score is great, my wealth but small.
Richard Cattermole, Giles Fletcher, 1836
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Fighting Market Failure: Collected Essays in the Cambridge ...
In the 'widow's cruse' example (Keynes 1971: 125), if entrepreneurs spend their extra-profits on consumption goods, the positive gap between the cost of investment goods and saving widens: the price of consumption continues to increase, ...
Maria Cristina Marcuzzo, 2012
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Piero Sraffa's Political Economy: A Centenary Estimate
In the 'widow's cruse' example (Keynes 1930:125), if entrepreneurs spend their extra-profits on consumption goods, the positive gap between the cost of investment goods and saving widens: the price of consumption continues to increase, ...
Terenzio Cozzi, Roberto Marchionatti, 2002
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The Joan Robinson Legacy
In effect it does not have the same time dimension as the widow's cruse mechanism. The two relationships, represented by schedules A and I in Figure 16.1, underlying the desired rate have different dimensions and therefore do not belong ...
Ingrid Hahne Rima, 1991
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Reappraising J. A. Hobson (Routledge Revivals): Humanism and ...
It is the widow's cruse. Their position was thus analogous to that of the consumers in the Banana Parable. Moreover, because the entrepreneurs would lose and would be forced to dispose of their assets at knockdown prices, ' gradually the ...
Michael Freeden, 2009
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A Search for Synthesis in Economic Theory
This is the so-called "widow's cruse" theory of distribution* for the equation indicates that the more capitalists *The expression "widow's cruse" is derived from Keynes's Treatise of Money, Vol. 1 (London: Macmillan, 1930), p. 139, wherein ...
Ching-Yao Hsieh, Stephen L. Mangum, 1986

10 NEWS ITEMS WHICH INCLUDE THE TERM «WIDOW'S CRUSE»

Find out what the national and international press are talking about and how the term widow's cruse is used in the context of the following news items.
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Will Education Reduce Economic Inequality?
If education could help the poor as well help the overall economy, then the leaky bucket would turn into a “widow's cruse,” with more benefit to the poor than was ... «Forbes, Oct 14»
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A new call for rev-repo to become the new policy rate
Towards a widow's cruse economy – FT Alphaville. This entry was posted by Cardiff Garcia on Wednesday January 29th, 2014 09:45 . Tagged with reverse ... «FT Alphaville, Jan 14»
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Attack of the killer rentiers
Summers on bubbles and secular stagnation forever - FT Alphaville The time for official e-money is NOW! – FT Alphaville Towards a widow's cruse economy? «FT Alphaville, Jan 14»
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Why the Fed can lower IOER soon (maybe)
Related links: Will this be the ZLB/repo/collateral-scarcity solution we've been waiting for? – FT Alphaville Towards a widow's cruse economy – FT Alphaville «FT Alphaville, Nov 13»
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Why the level of government debt may not matter
Towards a widow's cruse economy? – FT Alphaville. This entry was posted by Izabella Kaminska on Friday October 11th, 2013 10:43 . Tagged with Debt to GDP, ... «FT Alphaville, Oct 13»
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MBC confirms cancellation of 'Story Show Widow's Cruse'
'Story Show Widow's Cruse' ended with its final broadcast on the 3rd without any farewell announcement or message due to its abrupt cancellation. MBC stated ... «allkpop, Oct 13»
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How I learned to stop worrying and love the bubble
As we noted in the widow's cruse economy, this makes sense if you realise that during a depression the best outcome is if people are employed doing ... «FT Alphaville, Sep 13»
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Towards a widow's cruse economy?
As we noted in our previous post, the real significance of the Fed's FRFARRP trial (or FARPs for short) may be that it takes us ever closer to the Widow's Cruse ... «FT Alphaville, Sep 13»
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FARPs are go!
Whether that's a bad thing, depends entirely on how close we really are to the Keynesian prediction of a Widow's Cruse economy. We'll have more on that ... «FT Alphaville, Sep 13»
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Fujii Mina picks Hyungsik over 'We Got Married' husband Hongki
On the September 12 installment of MBC's 'Story Show Widow's Cruse,' actress Fujii Mina was asked to choose between 'We Got Married' husband F.T. Island's ... «allkpop, Sep 13»

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