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Waves of economic development The fifth-wave of economic development began in the 1990s with a two-fold interest in providing market solutions and regional strategies for development. The idea of a comparative advantage has been integral to the development of the fifth-wave. This wave has been marked by economic develo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29558646 |
Europäische Zeitschrift für Wirtschaftsrecht The (European Journal of Business Law. Revue Européenne de Droit Économique, ) is an academic journal which specialises in European law with a special focus on business law. It was established in 1990 and is published by C. H. Beck. The editions are released bimonthly. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29570811 |
Essay on the Nature of Trade in General () is a book about economics by Richard Cantillon. Written around 1730, and published in French in 1755. This book was considered by William Stanley Jevons to be the "cradle of political economy". This work remains Cantillon's only surviving contribution to economics. It was writ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29581033 |
Inflationary bias is the outcome of discretionary monetary policy that leads to a higher than optimal level of inflation. Depending on the way expectations are formed in the private sector of the economy, there may or may not be a transitory income increase. The term may also refer to the practice of a public debt-ridd... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29583998 |
Inflationary bias The meaning behind this quote is the following : In a dynamic model, the economic agents' current decisions generally depend not only on the present situation but also on how they anticipate future political actions. As a result, a series of time-bound discretionary policies (a set of policies that ar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29583998 |
Inflationary bias So it would not be expectable that a government make the commitment which would maintain the socially optimal inflation. It can be summarized by saying that the bank central expected utility is higher while cheating (acting with discretion while people expect it to commit). Thus, traditional theories ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29583998 |
Inflationary bias Thus, a solution to this bias would be to delegate monetary policy to an independent central bank. Theoretically, an independent central bank would have little incentive to cheat, more credibility in its commitment and then would lead to a lower inflation level and act like a guardian of price stabili... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29583998 |
Inflationary bias But other variables can also be targeted to face time inconsistency : natural GDP growth, inflation directly... A well-known rule-based monetary policy is the Taylor-rule, correlating the response of the central bank in terms of interest rate to inflation and production variations, following an equati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29583998 |
Inflationary bias Thus, in the face of supply shocks, these groups lobby for expansive monetary policy to avoid Hysteresis_(economics). As a solution, Piga proposes to enhance atomistic labor markets and decrease trade-unions' capacity to organize, but says this may also generate increased output instability. has also ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29583998 |
Inflationary bias com/archive/old-articles/part-3/time-inconsistency-and-inflation/ https://www.senat.fr/eco/ec-04/ec-04_mono.html#toc20 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29583998 |
The Economic System In Islam is a book written by Taqiuddin an-Nabhani originally written and published in Arabic in 1953 and translated into English and other languages. It explains the Islamic views on economy and its contradictions with Western-based capitalism and socialism. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29601915 |
Kilkenomics Festival The Kilkenomics Comedy and Economic Festival is an economics and comedy festival in Kilkenny, Ireland, the brainchild of David McWilliams and Richard Cook. Its first session ran from November 11th to November 14th in 2010. The festival mocks banking and political figures. The festival also features... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29646867 |
Compact toroid Compact toroids are a class of toroidal plasma configurations that are self-stable, and whose configuration does not require magnet coils running through the center of the toroid. They are studied primarily in the field of fusion energy, where the lack of complex magnets and a simple geometry may allow t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29648687 |
Compact toroid Compact toroids are also similar to the spherical tokamak, and many spherical tokamak machines were converted from earlier spheromak reactors. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29648687 |
Business intelligence deployment Utilising the DW/BI system is the final step before business users gain access to the information. The first impression the business community gets is when introduced to the BI frontend drives. Because acceptance from users is important, the deployment must be thoughtfully planned to en... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29731991 |
The Economics Anti-Textbook is both an introduction to, and critique of the typical approaches to economics teaching, written by Roderick Hill and Tony Myatt in 2010. The main thrust of the authors' argument is that basic economics courses, being centered on models of perfect competition, are biased towards the support... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29735321 |
The Economics Anti-Textbook Overall, the authors argue - with reference to Thomas Kuhn's "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" - that the existing economic paradigm is due for a change. The book presents their own paradigm for interpreting economic behaviour. Despite not yet being reviewed in mainstream journals, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29735321 |
Federal Reserve Statistical Release H.4.1 summarizes the balance sheet of the Federal Reserve System of the United States. The releases are weekly, usually each Thursday, generally at 4:30 p.m. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29740117 |
Partnership for New York City The Partnership for New York City, formerly called the New York City Partnership, is a nonprofit membership organization consisting of a select group of nearly three hundred CEOs (“Partners”) from New York City's top corporate, investment and entrepreneurial firms. The organization was fou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29770482 |
Simon Carter Ltd. Is a British fashion design company specialising in men's accessories and menswear, founded in London in 1985 by its eponymous director. Whilst training as an immunologist in the early 1980s became inspired by the vibrant culture of London's King's Road. He had a vintage brooch copied in pewter and, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29779596 |
Yrjö Jahnsson (1877–1936) was a Finnish economics professor at the University of Helsinki (appointed 1911). In the early 1930s he was openly critical of the strict monetary policy of the "orthodox" government and central bank. Ideologically he was a supporter of the Fennoman movement. During the 1920s and 1930s he was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29820906 |
Added worker effect The added worker effect refers to an increase in the labor supply of married women when their husbands become unemployed. Underlying the theory is the assumption that married women are secondary workers with a less permanent attachment to the labor market than their partners. As statistics show, mar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29826999 |
Added worker effect Since family wages are pooled and the price of consuming leisure varies among individuals depending on earning power, an increase in one individual's income may result in other family members gaining leisure time by working less (Mincer, 1962, p. 65). The diminishing marginal utility of income expla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29826999 |
Added worker effect An example of the effect can be found in a study by Arnold Katz, who attributes the bulk of the increase in married female workers in the depression of 1958 “to the distress[ed] job seeking of wives whose husbands were out of work” (1961, p. 478). Multiple variables contribute to the added worker ef... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29826999 |
Added worker effect During the Great Recession, which spanned December 2007 to June 2009, the average duration of unemployment reached a record high in the United States, which led to an increased incidence of the added worker effect (Rampell, 2010). The labor force participation rate of the wife rises with the expecta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29826999 |
Added worker effect Tim Maloney's study found no evidence of the added worker effect when entering the workforce is unorthodoxly defined by gaining employment (1991). This example supports the finding that often women with frequently unemployed spouses look for work but fail to find jobs that would enable them to offse... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29826999 |
Commitment device A commitment device is, according to journalist Stephen J. Dubner and economist Steven Levitt, a way to lock yourself into following a plan of action that you might not want to do but you know is good for you. In other words, a commitment device is a way to give yourself a reward or punishment to make... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29847590 |
Commitment device You know the story of Ulysses tying himself to the mast so that he couldn't be lured in by the song of the Sirens? You can think of that as the quintessential commitment device" (Beggs 2009). Behavioral economist Daniel Goldstein describes how commitment devices established in "cold states" help and p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29847590 |
Commitment device Health professionals can potentially increase patient uptake of commitment devices by increasing their accessibility, making policies opt-out, and leveraging patients’ social networks. Examples of commitment devices abound. Dubner and Levitt give the example of Han Xin, a general in Ancient China, who... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29847590 |
Hydraulic macroeconomics is an informal characterization of certain types of macroeconomic study assuming aggregate social wealth (demand or supply) as somewhat smooth, constant and homogeneous. The term was first introduced as hydraulic Keynesianism by Alan Coddington in classification of theoretical research methodol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29856976 |
Decentralized planning (economics) A decentralized-planned economy or decentrally-planned economy (occasionally called horizontally-planned economy due to its horizontalism) is a type of planned economy in which the investment and allocation of consumer and capital goods is explicated accordingly to an economy-wide pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29898594 |
Decentralized planning (economics) Decentralized-planning has been proposed as a basis for socialism and has been variously advocated by democratic socialists, council communists and anarchists who advocate a non-market form of socialism, in total rejection of Soviet-type central economic planning. Some writers such as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29898594 |
Decentralized planning (economics) Economist Pat Devine has created a model of decentralized economic planning called "negotiated coordination" which is based upon social ownership of the means of production by those affected by the use of the assets involved, with the allocation of consumer and capital goods made thro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29898594 |
Decentralized planning (economics) Decentralized planning has been a feature of socialist and anarchist economics. Variations of decentralized planning include participatory economics, economic democracy and industrial democracy and have been promoted by various political groups, most notably libertarian socialists, gu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29898594 |
Mutual fund separation theorem In portfolio theory, a mutual fund separation theorem, mutual fund theorem, or separation theorem is a theorem stating that, under certain conditions, any investor's optimal portfolio can be constructed by holding each of certain mutual funds in appropriate ratios, where the number of mut... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29928965 |
Mutual fund separation theorem If the investor's optimal portfolio has an expected return that is between the expected returns on two efficient benchmark portfolios, then that investor's portfolio can be characterized as consisting of positive quantities of the two benchmark portfolios. To see two-fund separation in a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29928965 |
Mutual fund separation theorem This can be solved for the optimal vector formula_4 of asset quantities by equating to zero the derivatives with respect to formula_4, formula_14, and formula_15, provisionally solving the first-order condition for formula_4 in terms of formula_14 and formula_15, substituting into the oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29928965 |
Mutual fund separation theorem ) Thus mean-variance efficient portfolios can be formed simply as a combination of holdings of the risk-free asset and holdings of a particular efficient fund that contains only risky assets. The derivation above does not apply, however, since with a risk-free asset the above covariance m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29928965 |
Mutual fund separation theorem It can be shown that the portfolio with exactly zero holdings of the risk-free asset occurs at formula_50 and is given by It can also be shown (analogously to the demonstration in the above two-mutual-fund case) that every portfolio's risky asset vector (that is, formula_52 for every valu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=29928965 |
Profit taking In finance, profit taking (or taking profits) is the practice of selling an asset, mostly shares, when the asset has risen in price. This allows investors to convert the increase of an asset's market value into cash. by a number of investors normally causes the price of the asset in question to fall tempo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30017911 |
Journal of the European Economic Association The is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of economics. It was established in 2003 and is published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the European Economic Association. The current managing editor is Imran Rasul, Professor of Economics at University College ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30035821 |
Easterlin hypothesis The (Easterlin 1961, 1969, 1973) states that the positive relationship between income and fertility is dependent on relative income. It is considered the first viable and a still leading explanation for mid-twentieth century baby booms. The hypothesis as formulated by Richard Easterlin presumes tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30040514 |
Central Product Classification The (CPC) is a product classification for goods and services promulgated by the United Nations Statistical Commission. It is intended to be an international standard for organizing and analyzing data on industrial production, national accounts, trade, prices and so on. The European Union'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30062451 |
All the Devils Are Here All the Devils Are Here: The Hidden History of the Financial Crisis is a nonfiction book by authors Bethany McLean and Joseph Nocera about the 2008 financial crisis. It details how the financial crisis bubbled up from a volatile, and bipartisan, mixture of government meddling and "laissez-faire"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30071489 |
Treasury International Capital or TIC is a set of monthly and quarterly statistical reports from the U.S. Treasury that shows nearly all the flows of money into and out of the U.S, for purchases and sales of U.S. securities and financial instruments by institutions, governments, central banks, corporations and many oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30083764 |
Music catalog In the music industry, a collection of musical compositions is cataloged into a music catalog. The owner owns the copyrights of the cataloged compositions. source https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Music_catalog#/editor/2 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30097153 |
Protection or Free Trade is a book published in 1886 by the economist and social philosopher, Henry George. Its sub-title is An Examination of the Tariff Question with Especial Regard to the Interests of Labor. As the title suggests, George examined the debate between protectionism and free trade. George was opposed to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30111500 |
Protection or Free Trade To secure this all monopoly of land must be broken up, and the equal right of all to the use of the natural elements must be secured by the treatment of the land as the common property in usufruct of the whole people. In 1997, Spencer MacCallum wrote that Henry George was "undeniably the greate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30111500 |
Stochastic volatility jump In mathematical finance, the stochastic volatility jump (SVJ) model is suggested by Bates. This model fits the observed implied volatility surface well. The model is a Heston process for stochastic volatility with an added Merton log-normal jump. It assumes the following correlated processes:... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30123945 |
Richard Timberlake Richard H. Timberlake, Jr. (born June 24, 1922) is an American economist who was Professor of Economics at the University of Georgia for much of his career. He also has become a leading advocate of free banking, the belief that money should be issued by private companies, not by a government monopoly... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30169002 |
Richard Timberlake He believes that, instead of a government-imposed central bank, there should be a free market in the production of money, with banks choosing how to issue their own, competing currencies. Timberlake also examined the causes of the Great Depression, and emphasized the switch of the Federal Reserve, st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30169002 |
Richard Timberlake In the past he was a vocal and outspoken critic of the science behind anthropogenic climate change, writing a number of op-ed pieces for the "Athens Banner Herald". Articles in: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30169002 |
Aisle411 aisle411 Inc. is a St. Louis based company that has developed a consumer service called aisle411, which allows customers to use their phones to find products in stores. Founded in 2008 by Nathan Pettyjohn (Founder) and Matthew Kulig (Co-Founder), aisle411 entered the market in August 2009 with a mobile service... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30171297 |
Aisle411 3 million in its first round of financing - led by St. Louis-based Cultivation Capital - to help the company scale, meet demand and expand retail partnerships. Another company that has invested in aisle411 includes Billiken Angels Network. aisle411 allows consumers with Smart Phones to pull up a map pinpointin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30171297 |
The Denationalization of Money is a 1976 book by Friedrich Hayek, in which the author advocated the establishment of competitively issued private moneys. In 1978 Hayek published a revised and enlarged edition entitled Denationalization of Money: The Argument Refined, where he speculated that rather than entertaining an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30179841 |
The Denationalization of Money Institutions would issue and regulate their currency primarily through loan-making, and secondarily through currency buying and selling activities. It is postulated that the financial press would report daily information on whether institutions are managing their currencies within a previ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30179841 |
The Denationalization of Money White was critical of Hayek's assumption that the most stable currencies would win market acceptance. According to the European Central Bank, the decentralization of money offered by bitcoin has its theoretical roots in "Denationalisation of Money: The Argument Refined". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30179841 |
The Value of Nothing The Value of Nothing: How to Reshape Market Society and Redefine Democracy is a book by Raj Patel about the economic crisis and its effect on consumers.It was published in 2010. "The Value of Nothing" was on "The New York Times" best-seller list during February 2010 and has received many positive r... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30214012 |
Quarterly finance report In the private sector, a quarterly finance report is a financial report that covers three months of the year, which is required by numbers of stock exchanges around the world to provide information to investors on the state of a company. "Private sector financial reports emphasize the ultimate ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30221243 |
Business nationalism is an economic nationalist ideology held by a sector of the political right in the United States. Business nationalists are conservative business and industrial leaders who favor a protectionist trade policy and an isolationist foreign policy. Locked in a power struggle with corporate international... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30239204 |
Business nationalism Business nationalists who networked other ultra-conservatives included J. Howard Pew, president of Sun Oil, and William B. Bell, president of the chemical company American Cyanamid. Pew and Bell served on the executive committee of the National Association of Manufacturers. Pew also funded the Amer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30239204 |
Business nationalism ” The reactionary analysis absent this understanding breeds social alienation and intensifies “scapegoating and hostility toward those seen as outside of, different or dissenting from its vision of national identity." As alienation builds, more overtly fascistic forces will attempt to pull some of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30239204 |
Fiscal space is the flexibility of a government in its spending choices, and, more generally, to the financial well-being of a government. Peter Heller (2005) defined it “as room in a government’s budget that allows it to provide resources for a desired purpose without jeopardizing the sustainability of its financial p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30257336 |
Fiscal space They define it as the difference between an estimated upper limit of public debt (beyond which action would have to be taken to avoid default) and actual public debt, expressed as a percentage of GDP or equivalently as the difference between the debt-limit-to-GDP percentage and the actual-debt-to-GDP perce... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30257336 |
Speed thinking is a type of thinking technique proposed by authors such as Dr Ken Hudson, Malcolm Gladwell and Edward de Bono that, according to the authors, could accelerate the pace of thinking and improve how an individual or group thinks, creates, solves and acts. Structurally, Hudson's speed thinking involves two-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30268865 |
Common Sense on Mutual Funds Common Sense on Mutual Funds: New Imperatives for the Intelligent Investor, written by John Bogle, is a book advising investors about mutual funds, with a focus on the praise of index funds and the importance of having a long term strategy. On the dust jacket cover, Jim Cramer wrote, "After... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30277691 |
National Competitiveness Report of Armenia The (ACR) is an annual publication of EV Consulting and the Economy and Values Research Center (a partner institute of the World Economic Forum’s Global Competitiveness Network) that aims to encourage and foster in-depth dialogue and analysis on improving Armenia's competitive... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30314660 |
National Competitiveness Report of Armenia The prefaces for the report were written by Republic of Armenia Prime Minister Tigran Sargsyan and Stanford University Professor Nicholas Bloom. The third Armenian competitiveness report focused on the higher education challenge of Armenia. The report was launched on 24 Decemb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30314660 |
National Competitiveness Report of Armenia The report states that in the context of competitiveness, Armenia has moved toward a new development stage, where the role of the competitiveness drivers is changed. The role of performance of macroeconomic indicators, institutions and basic infrastructure is more significant ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30314660 |
National Competitiveness Report of Armenia On the basis of generating demand or creating a lead market, the ACR distinguishes four kick-off or jumpstart strategic trajectories by the relative importance of policy focuses and actors. The report thoroughly describes the specifics of each strategy – Domestic Corporate-Led... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30314660 |
National Competitiveness Report of Armenia In the Global Competitiveness Report 2007-2008, produced by the World Economic Forum, Armenia ranked 93rd out of 131 countries in the Global Competitiveness Index (GCI) and 108th out of 127 countries in Business Competitiveness Index (BCI). Alongside to the thorough analysis o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30314660 |
Emerging and growth-leading economies (EAGLEs) are a grouping of key emerging markets developed by BBVA Research. The EAGLE economies are expected to lead global growth in the next 10 years, and to provide important opportunities for investors. EAGLEs is a grouping acronym created in late 2010 by BBVA Research to ident... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30318571 |
Emerging and growth-leading economies After BRIC concept was coined by Goldman Sachs in 2001, there were other endeavors to find the best grouping acronym such as: CIVETS, Next Eleven, 7 per cent club and the EAGLEs. In January 2011, Goldman Sachs decided to re-define its current definition of Emerging Markets and prop... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30318571 |
Emerging and growth-leading economies Three countries which would otherwise have met the criterion for the Nest were excluded: Iraq and Saudi Arabia because BBVA classifies them as frontier, not emerging markets; Iran was excluded due to sanctions and thus not a suitable target for investors. Iran would have been an EA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30318571 |
Raniero Panzieri (1921 – Turin, 9 October 1964) was an Italian politician, writer and Marxist theoretician, considered as the founder of operaismo. was born in Rome. He lived in Sicily and was active in the ranks of the Italian Socialist Party. Whilst taking an active part in struggles for land reform, he began to writ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30320792 |
Raniero Panzieri The first editions of the review, which aimed at exploring the real life of the factory and the relationship of the workers to production, had a profound impact in the sphere of workplace struggles, as they departed from the habitual positions of the socialists and communists in this area. Mario Tronti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30320792 |
Mario Tronti (born 24 July 1931) is an Italian philosopher and politician, considered as one of the founders of the theory of operaismo in the 1960s. An active member of the Italian Communist Party (PCI) during the 1950s, he was, with Raniero Panzieri, amongst the founders of the "Quaderni Rossi" (Red Notebooks) review... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30321215 |
Mario Tronti His ideas found an echo in 1966, with the publication of "Operai e capitale" (Workers and Capital), a book which would exercise a notable influence on the protests of the youth and, more generally, on the wave of mobilisation that was initiated in the following years. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30321215 |
Vikna Wind Farm () is located on Husfjellet, just west of the village of Garstad on the island Mellom-Vikna in the municipality of Nærøysund in Trøndelag county, Norway. The wind farm consists of five wind turbines, with an installed capacity of (calculated as 3 x 0.4 MW + 2 x 0.5 MW), with an average annual production... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30385324 |
Fear the Boom and Bust is a 2010 hip hop music video in which 20th century economists John Maynard Keynes and Friedrich von Hayek (played by Billy Scafuri and Adam Lustick, respectively) take part in a rap battle discussing economics, specifically, the boom and bust business cycle, for which the video is named. The vid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30419230 |
PCR food testing is the engagement of Polymerase Chain Reaction (PCR) technologies for the testing of food for the presence or absence of human pathogens, such as E. coli, Salmonella, Listeria, etc. Four sample collection sites for can be: Each of these sample types can be collected, prepared and PCR tested within a sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30443935 |
Tax in kind or tax-in-kind usually refers to any taxation that is paid in kind, that is with goods or services rather than money, including: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30448763 |
Insolvency auditor An insolvency auditor is an insolvency expert who looks after the interests of business owners and company directors as opposed to an Insolvency practitioner who has to look after the interests of the creditors by law. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30454856 |
More Than Good Intentions More Than Good Intentions: How a New Economics is Helping to Solve Global Poverty is a non-fiction book by Yale economist Dean Karlan and field researcher Jacob Appel published in 2011. It combines insights from behavioral economics with field research from developing countries to discuss and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30469345 |
More Than Good Intentions Concluding, they present a takeaway consisting of seven ideas proven to be effective in development: Microsavings, reminders to save, prepaid fertilizer sales, deworming, remedial education in small groups, chlorine dispensers for clean water, and the use of commitment devices. The book combin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30469345 |
SecFinex was a UK-based electronic stock lending and borrowing platform that operated between 2000 and 2011. It was closed down in December 2011, when its main owner, NYSE Euronext, said that despite it believing that central counterparty would play an important part in stock borrowing in the future the business had no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30482532 |
Zelder paradox In economics, the is the observation of Martin Zelder that welfare-reducing divorce is more likely when a couple has invested their efforts into love and children instead of money, possessions, and sex. Divorce is considered to be welfare-reducing when one spouse's desire to remain married is greater tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30511485 |
Zelder paradox If a significant portion of marital wealth is in the form of public goods, then bargaining may not be able to save a marriage, even though a divorce would cause greater overall unhappiness than remaining married. Zelder cites Gary Becker as one of the originators of the idea of using economic tools to an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30511485 |
Zelder paradox The key factor described by Zelder is that when the benefits of marriage are non-public, such as time spent on household chores, sex, or income transfers, then spouses can withhold them or offer to increase them in order to save a marriage. Public goods, however, cannot be withheld, and so cannot be used... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30511485 |
Zelder paradox Ellman suggests that wives' advantage in the granting of child custody after divorce may reduce husbands' motivation for divorce, offsetting the effect identified by Zelder. Zelder argues that no-fault divorce was often accompanied by movement toward joint custody instead of exclusive custody by the moth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30511485 |
I Capital "i" Capital is a weekly stock market newsletter that was started in 1989 by Capital Dynamics Sdn Bhd. It is Malaysia's first independent investment advisor and is published in English and Chinese. An electronic version was added in 2002. "i" Capital is renowned for its critical writing and independent viewpoi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30537020 |
CosmoProf Cosmoprof is a series of beauty and cosmetics trade shows that occur in locations around the world. The flagship event in Bologna has been in existence since 1967 and draws 2,300 exhibitors from seventy countries and more than 170,000 visitors. It generally happens in the middle of March, along Cosmopack, a p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30540623 |
Lone worker A lone worker (LW) is an employee who performs an activity that is carried out in isolation from other workers without close or direct supervision. Such staff may be exposed to risk because there is no-one to assist them and so a risk assessment may be required. Lone workers are now often supported by cloud... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30543997 |
Lone worker In these cases, the definition of a Lone Worker is someone who is alone at work or when they are on their own; when they cannot be seen or heard by another person. Additional Province-issued documents include: France has enacted laws protecting lone workers. Germany has codified laws mandating when it is le... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30543997 |
Praenumeration was an early form of the subscription business model. It was a common business practice in the 18th century book trade in Germany. The publisher offered to sell a book that was planned but had not yet been printed, usually at a discount, so as to cover their costs in advance. The business practice was pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30579182 |
The Inspection Board of Finance of Turkey The Inspection Board of Finance in Turkey is an institution in the field of investigating, searching for, and suppressing corrupt financial sources. The Board was set up in 1879, during attempts to rearrange and improve the financial administration of the Ottoman Era, with the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30624724 |
List of economics films This is a list of economics films. Economic film is a genre of film concerned with economics, typically about business, investing, and finance. It covers both fictional and documentary films. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30628818 |
Relative utilitarianism Let formula_1 be a set of possible `states of the world' or `alternatives'; society wishes to choose some state from formula_1. Let formula_3 be a finite set, representing a collection of people. For each formula_4, let formula_5 be a "utility function". A "social choice rule" (or "voting system... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30630597 |
Relative utilitarianism Thus, if the utility function formula_11 is valid description of her preferences, and if formula_12 are two constants with formula_13, then the `rescaled' utility function formula_14 is an equally valid description of her preferences. If we define a new package of utility functions formula_15 us... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30630597 |
Relative utilitarianism (Cao (1982) refers to it as the `modified Thomson solution'.) When interpreted as a `voting rule', it is equivalent to Range voting. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=30630597 |
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