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According to economist Joan Robinson beggar-thy-neighbour policies were widely adopted by major economies during the Great Depression of the 1930s. [ 2 ] Alan Deardorff has analysed beggar-thy-neighbour policies as an instance of the prisoner's dilemma known from game theory : each country individually has an incentive to follow such a policy ...
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World trade expanded rapidly. The RTAA was a US law but provided the first widespread system of guidelines for bilateral trade agreements. The United States and the European nations began avoiding beggar-thy-neighbour policies, which pursued national trade objectives at the expense of other nations. Instead, countries started to realize the ...
I vaguely remember 'Begger-my-neighbour' mentioned as a card game in Dicken's novel Great Expectations. I suspect this is the origin of the term? --Surturz 04:49, 14 March 2008 (UTC) Found it! Beggar-My-Neighbour--Surturz 04:51, 14 March 2008 (UTC)
We always called it "Beggar thy neighbour", but I have no sources to back this up. Does this variant ring true with anyone else? Martin of Sheffield 08:55, 4 September 2019 (UTC) I think Beggar thy neighbour is already linked: When I open it, I get: - This article is about the economic policy. For the card game, see Beggar-My-Neighbour.
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Beggar-my-neighbour, also known as strip jack naked, beat your neighbour out of doors, [1] or beat jack out of doors, [2] or beat your neighbour, [3] is a simple choice-free card game. It is somewhat similar in nature to the children's card game War , and has spawned a more complicated variant, Egyptian ratscrew .
Thou shalt always be honest and faithful, especially to the provider of thy nookie. Thou shalt try real hard not to kill anyone – unless, of course, they pray to a different invisible man from the one you pray to. Thou shalt keep thy religion to thyself.