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Kaleidics In the 1937 article, titled "The General Theory of Employment", in which he elaborates on his 1936 book, "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money", Keynes asserts, in effect, that the demand for money in the present derives from the uncertainty of our knowledge about the future - and that the fac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35272490 |
Kaleidics Wagner, going beyond the "idea of a kaleidic economy or society" that is "strongly associated with George Shackle and his vision of Keynesian kaleidics", asserted that "the central thrust of the Austrian tradition in economic analysis can be described by the term 'Viennese kaleidics'." Wagner argues that, in ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35272490 |
Kaleidics Notable Austrians consider the notion of kaleidics, as proposed by Shackle and Lachmann, who were considered as adherents, in general, to be "an alien injection into [the Austrian tradition], an approach that only offers "corruption of hard-gained truths." The Austrian criticism reflects the belief that a kal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35272490 |
Kaleidics " Austrian-school American economist Roger Garrison accepts that "expectations are not rational in the strong sense of that term", but claims that they become more rational "with increased levels of policy activism and with cumulative experience with the consequences of it." Garrison characterizes expectation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35272490 |
World Business Report (radio programme) World Business Report is the BBC World Service's international business and finance news programme, broadcast on Mondays at 0132 and weekdays at 1532 and 2232 GMT and produced at Broadcasting House in London. Each programme is 26 minutes long and includes business news, interview... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35301853 |
Follow the money "Follow the money" is a catchphrase popularized by the 1976 docudrama film "All the President's Men", which suggests political corruption can be brought to light by examining money transfers between parties. For the film, screenwriter William Goldman attributed the phrase to Deep Throat, the informant ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35320414 |
Follow the money In September 2016, the Trump campaign used the phrase in criticizing Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation humanitarian aid non-profit for several events including a uranium deal approved by Clinton's state department after her charitable foundation received large donations from people with stakes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35320414 |
Save Italy is the name of the economic recovery plan Italian Prime Minister Mario Monti. The package of fiscal adjustments is worth €30 billion ($40 billion) over three years, and includes tax increases, pension cuts, stronger protection against tax evasion, and an increase in the retirement age. The reform package is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35335201 |
Top-lit updraft gasifier A top-lit updraft gasifier (also known as a TLUD) is a micro-kiln used to produce charcoal, especially biochar, and heat for cooking. A TLUD pyrolyzes organic material, including wood or manure, and uses a reburner to eliminate volatile byproducts of pyrolization. The process leaves mostly carb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35356715 |
Top-lit updraft gasifier The secondary air inlet blows hot air by the time it travels around the fuel pot. The secondary inlet above the fuel layer helps burn the wood gas. YouTube has many instructional videos, with further explanation on other websites. A range of construction plans to make TLUD gasifier stoves | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35356715 |
List of people associated with the eurozone crisis This is a list of people associated with the eurozone crisis. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35390666 |
Martin Albrow (born 1937) is a British sociologist, noted for his works on globalization, the theory of the global age and global civil society. He was appointed in 1963 as the first full-time sociologist at Reading University, and subsequently worked at University College Cardiff, where he was Head of Department, and ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35400879 |
Martin Albrow His books include: "Bureaucracy", London, Pall Mall, 1970; "Max Weber's Construction of Social Theory", London, Macmillan, 1990; "The Global Age: State and Society beyond Modernity", Cambridge, Polity 1996; "Do Organizations Have Feelings?", London and New York, Routledge, 1997; "Sociology: The Basics", L... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35400879 |
Criticisms of econometrics There have been many criticisms of econometrics' usefulness as a discipline and perceived widespread methodological shortcomings in econometric modelling practices. Like other forms of statistical analysis, badly specified econometric models may show a spurious correlation where two variables... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35470316 |
Criticisms of econometrics However, as Sala-I-Martin showed, it is often the case that you can specify two models suggesting contrary relation between two variables. The phenomenon was labeled 'emerging recalcitrant result' phenomenon by Robert Goldfarb. Robert Lucas criticised the use of overly simplistic econometric ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35470316 |
Criticisms of econometrics Looking primarily at macroeconomics, Lawrence Summers has criticized econometric formalism, arguing that "the empirical facts of which we are most confident and which provide the most secure basis for theory are those that require the least sophisticated statistical analysis to perceive." He ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35470316 |
Pooled income fund A pooled income fund is a type of charitable mutual fund created from securities or cash donated by an individual, a family or a corporation to a charity, which is then invested to provide dividends for both the donor and charity. The donations are irrevocable and tax-deductible and must be from pers... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35473022 |
Nudge theory Nudge is a concept in [behavioral science]], [[political theory] and [[behavioral economics]] which proposes [[positive reinforcement]] and indirect suggestions as ways to [[Social influence|influence]] the behavior and [[decision making]] of groups or individuals. Nudging contrasts with other ways to achi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35480438 |
Nudge theory It also drew on methodological influences from clinical [[psychotherapy]] tracing back to [[Gregory Bateson]], including contributions from [[Milton Erickson]], [[Paul Watzlawick|Watzlawick]], [[John Weakland|Weakland]] and Fisch, and [[Bill O'Hanlon]]. In this variant, the nudge is a microtargetted design... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35480438 |
Nudge theory It is common knowledge that humans are not fully rational beings; that is, people will often do something that is not in their own self-interest, even when they are aware that their actions are not in their best interest. As an example, when hungry, people who diet often underestimate their ability to lose... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35480438 |
Nudge theory In other words, a nudge alters the environment so that when heuristic, or System 1, decision-making is used, the resulting choice will be the most positive or desired outcome. An example of such a nudge is switching the placement of junk food in a store, so that fruit and other healthy options are located ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35480438 |
Nudge theory When an individual’s attention is drawn towards a particular option, that option will become more salient to the individual, and he or she will be more likely to choose to that option. As an example, in [[snack]] shops at train stations in the Netherlands, consumers purchased more fruit and [[healthy diet|... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35480438 |
Nudge theory Regarding its application to HSE, one of the primary goals of nudge is to achieve a "zero accident culture". Leading [[Silicon Valley]] companies are forerunners in applying nudge theory in corporate setting. These companies are using nudges in various forms to increase productivity and happiness of employ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35480438 |
Nudge theory Tammy Boyce, from public health foundation [[The King's Fund]], has said: "We need to move away from short-term, politically motivated initiatives such as the 'nudging people' idea, which are not based on any good evidence and don't help people make long-term behaviour changes." Likewise, Mols et al (2015)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35480438 |
Nudge theory Conversely, people found these same mechanisms to be more unethical when they differed from their politics. The researchers also found that nudges are not inherently partisan: when evaluating behavioral policies absent of political cues, people across the political spectrum were alike in their assessments.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35480438 |
Nudge theory [[Category:Behavioural sciences]] [[Category:Cognitive biases]] [[Category:Psychological theories]] [[Category:Psychological manipulation]] [[Category:Behavioral economics]] | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35480438 |
Lars Pålsson Syll Lars Jörgen Pålsson Syll (born November 5, 1957) is a Swedish economist who is a Professor of Social Studies and Associate professor of Economic History at Malmö University College. Pålsson Syll has been a prominent contributor to the economic debate in Sweden over the global financial crisis that beg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35527231 |
Lars Pålsson Syll He has been strongly influenced by John Maynard Keynes. In 2011 he was a strong supporter of Paul Romer to be awarded the Nobel prize for economics for his work on how people really behave in the market. Pålsson Syll is a critic of neoliberalism and market fundamentalism, which he attacked in his 2001... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35527231 |
Lars Pålsson Syll He blames the massive deregulation of the financial markets in the 1980s for both the 1990s crisis and the more recent crisis that began in 2008, and has called for a return to tighter regulation and greater transparency. He sees low interest rates as a risk to the economy. They hurt those dependent o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35527231 |
Eco-Kashrut Eco-Kashrut, also called the Eco-Kosher movement, is a movement to extend the Kashrut system, or Jewish dietary laws, to address modern environmental, social, and ethical issues, and promote sustainability. This movement began in the 1970s among American Reconstructionist Jews, and eco-kashrut or eco-kosher... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35555048 |
Eco-Kashrut Amid opposition from the Orthodox movement, no products have been certified to carry the seal as of August 2017. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35555048 |
Biology and consumer behaviour Consumer behaviour is the study of the motivations surrounding a purchase of a product or service. It has been linked to the field of psychology, sociology and economics in attempts to analyse when, why, where and how people purchase in the way that they do. However, little literature has... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35557898 |
Biology and consumer behaviour Hobbes saw the need for a governing intermediary to control this selfish nature which provided a basis for the exchange theory, and also links to Mcgregor's Theory of X and Y, relevant to management literature. He also considered cooperation and competition, relevant to game theory as an ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35557898 |
Biology and consumer behaviour The gene-centric view outlines that natural selection, evolution and all behaviour must be traced back to the survival of competing genes as an extension of Darwin's theory being the survival of competing individuals. The main goal of individuals, coming from the instinct of our genes, is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35557898 |
Biology and consumer behaviour Genes indirectly influence our behaviour as the nervous system and our brain is the intermediary in the transaction decision because it reasons and processes all of the gene instructions into one decision, movement or behaviour. The way neurons connect is dependent on the environment, lea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35557898 |
Biology and consumer behaviour The other side of the debate is the environment around us which can shape our attitudes, learning, sensation, thinking and behaviour People who differ in attitudes toward education probably have different beliefs about the benefit of tertiary education, different feelings about having to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35557898 |
Biology and consumer behaviour Habituation is shared across species and is the simplest form of learning. Here a person's response to a stimulus weakens when it becomes familiar. For example, with drink driving advertising in New Zealand, a decade ago we saw cars smashing into each other as a scare tactic. The content ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35557898 |
Biology and consumer behaviour Empiricists argue all knowledge come from our senses but if senses are only relevant to our proximal world, how do people know the distal world? They argue it is through learning and that prior experience plays a crucial role in shaping our perceptual world. Association is a key function ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35557898 |
Biology and consumer behaviour In a consumer behaviour context, vicarious learning which involves changing behaviour by having an individual observe the actions of another and witness the consequences of that behaviour, is used to develop new responses and inhibit undesired behaviours. The former is done through educat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35557898 |
Biology and consumer behaviour Genes predispose individuals to determine the extent to which an individual may engage or interact with certain environments. Ridley exemplified that having ‘athletic’ genes makes one want to practice a sport, and having ‘intellectual’ genes makes one seek out intellectual activities. "Th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35557898 |
Biology and consumer behaviour Addiction to substance abuse is partially determined by genes, which predispose individuals to have addictive personalities; however the stimuli with which an addiction develops is dependent on the environment. Addiction is persistent and compulsive, and has a significant impact upon cons... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35557898 |
Biology and consumer behaviour Measuring consumers' conscious and subconscious through studying their biological sensorimotor, cognitive and affective response to marketing stimuli, called neuromarketing, is of increasing interest to marketers in order to gain insight into how they consume. Dawkins (1989) explained tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35557898 |
Biology and consumer behaviour This shows that regardless of their biology and sensory reaction, people's consumption behaviour and preferences are influenced by the environment, in this case the perception of brands. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35557898 |
Liander is a Dutch utility company which operates in the distribution of electricity and natural gas in part of the Netherlands. NV is the largest utility company in the Netherlands, managing the energy network in the provinces of Gelderland and Noord-Holland entirely, and in large parts of Flevoland, Friesland and Zui... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35562981 |
Kotmale Biyagama transmission line is one of Sri Lanka's critical transmission lines that connects the load center Colombo to hydroelectricity generation of Mahaweli Complex. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35574265 |
Firelighter A firelighter is a small, solid fuel tablet for fire making. Firelighters marketed as consumer products may be used to start a wood or coal fire in a fireplace, wood-burning stove, or solid-fuel portable stove. As a hazardous material, firelighters are assigned a UN number: 2623 ("Firelighters; solid with f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35584412 |
Bertrand–Edgeworth model In microeconomics, the of price-setting oligopoly looks at what happens when there is a homogeneous product (i.e. consumers want to buy from the cheapest seller) where there is a limit to the output of firms which they are willing and able to sell at a particular price. This differs from the Be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35626853 |
Bertrand–Edgeworth model Francis Ysidro Edgeworth considered the case where there is a limit to what firms can sell (a capacity constraint): he showed that if there is a fixed limit to what firms can sell, then there may exist no pure-strategy Nash equilibrium (this is sometimes called the Edgeworth paradox). Martin Sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35626853 |
Bertrand–Edgeworth model There have been several responses to the non-existence of pure-strategy equilibrium identified by Francis Ysidro Edgeworth and Martin Shubik. Whilst the existence of mixed-strategy equilibrium was demonstrated by Huw Dixon, it has not proven easy to characterize what the equilibrium actually lo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35626853 |
Theories of Surplus Value () is a draft manuscript written by Karl Marx between January 1862 and July 1863. It is mainly concerned with the West European theorizing about "Mehrwert" (added value or surplus value) from about 1750, critically examining the ideas of British, French and German political economists about we... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35664198 |
Theories of Surplus Value "Theories of Surplus Value" forms the longest (about 110 printed sheets) and most fully elaborated part of this huge manuscript, and it is the first and only draft of the fourth, concluding volume of "Capital". As distinguished from the three theoretical volumes of "Das Kapital", Marx called t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35664198 |
Theories of Surplus Value Even the publication of "Theories of Surplus Value" did not make all of Marx's writing on political economy available to the public and this task was only fulfilled decades later with the publication of the "Grundrisse", the "Results of the Immediate Production Process" and various other manus... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35664198 |
Eastern Economic Journal The is a quarterly peer-reviewed academic journal covering all aspects of economics. It was established in 1973 and is published by Palgrave Macmillan on behalf of the Eastern Economic Association. The editors-in-chief are Susan L. Averett and Edward N. Gamber (Lafayette College). The journal i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35665718 |
Pingit Pingit, formerly Barclays Pingit, is a system for the mobile transfer of money in the United Kingdom. It was launched by Barclays in February 2012 and was initially only available for use by Barclays current account holders, who were over the age of 18, for the sending and receiving of payments. This was later e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35672764 |
Export parity price Export Parity Price or EPP is defined as, ""The price that a producer gets or can expect to get for its product if exported, equal to the Freight on Board price minus the costs of getting the product from the farm or factory to the border. This and the import parity price together define a range of ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35675580 |
Asia Oceania Tax Consultants' Association The (AOTCA) was founded in 1992 in Tokyo. The AOTCA is an umbrella organisation that embraces 20 national organisations from 17 Asia-Oceanic states and within them over 400,000 tax advisers. The purpose of the AOTCA is to bring together all tax advisers' organisations of all As... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35680069 |
Asia Oceania Tax Consultants' Association At the time of convening meetings, it holds the international tax conference on various tax issues in the region as well as international taxation. AOTCA promotes cooperative relationships with CFE and SGATAR (Study Group on Asian Tax Administration and Research), a forum for t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35680069 |
Economic Complexity Index The (ECI) is a holistic measure of the productive capabilities of large economic systems, usually cities, regions, or countries. In particular, the ECI looks to explain the knowledge accumulated in a population and that is expressed in the economic activities present in a city, country, or reg... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35701292 |
Economic Complexity Index For example, Japan or Germany, with high ECIs, export many goods that are of low ubiquity and that are produced by highly diversified countries, indicating that these are diverse and sophisticated economies. Countries with low ECI, like Angola or Zambia, export only a few products, which are o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35701292 |
Behavioral assumption The behavioral assumption is one of the basics theories in classical finance. The assumption is that, under their resource constraints, human attempt to maximize their utilities, which means biggest profit and outcomes. The two most important characteristics of the human under the behavioral assum... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35727132 |
Faisal Basri (born November 6, 1959) is an Indonesian economist and politician. He is a faculty member at University of Indonesia, specializing in political economics, and a member of KPPU, Indonesian competition regulator. Basri is the grandnephew of Indonesia's third Vice President, Adam Malik. In 2012, Basri ran for... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35744971 |
Journal of Private Enterprise The is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics published by the Association of Private Enterprise Education. It was established in 1985 and appears twice a year. Edward Stringham (Fayetteville State University) has been the editor-in-chief since 2006. The journal is abstracted and in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35749996 |
Cardinal voting refers to any electoral system which allows the voter to give each candidate an independent rating or grade. These are also referred to as "rated" (Ratings ballot), "evaluative", "graded", or "absolute" voting systems. "Cardinal" methods (based on cardinal utility) and "ordinal methods" are two main cat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35757246 |
Cardinal voting However, since one of these criteria (called "universality") implicitly requires that a method be ordinal, not cardinal, Arrow's theorem does not apply to cardinal methods. Others, however, argue that ratings are fundamentally invalid, because meaningful interpersonal comparisons of utility are impossib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35757246 |
Low-volatility anomaly The low-volatility anomaly is the observation that low-volatility stocks have higher returns than high-volatility stocks in most markets studied. This is an example of a stock market anomaly since it contradicts the central prediction of many financial theories that taking higher risk must be com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35761468 |
Low-volatility anomaly Studies find that the correct slope is either less than predicted, not significantly different from zero, or even negative. Black (1972) proposed a theory where there is a zero-beta return which is different from the risk-free return. This fits the data better since the zero-beta return is differ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35761468 |
Low-volatility anomaly The portfolio of stocks with the lowest volatility has a higher return compared to the portfolio of stocks with the highest volatility. A visual illustration of the anomaly, since the relation between risk and return should be positive. Data for the related low-beta anomaly is also online availab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35761468 |
Fair trade cocoa is an agricultural product harvested from a cocoa tree using a certified process which is followed by cocoa farmers, buyers, and chocolate manufacturers, and is designed to create sustainable incomes for farmers and their families. Companies that use fair trade certified cocoa to create products can ad... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35785293 |
Fair trade cocoa In 2002, Fair Trade USA, which at that time had been incorporated into Fair Trade International (FLO), started certifying fair trade cocoa products sold in the United States. In September 2011, Fair Trade USA split from Fair Trade International (FLO). In 2001, the issue of forced labour in cocoa produc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35785293 |
Fair trade cocoa "According to the 2015 edition of the Cocoa Barometer, a biennial report examining the economics of cocoa that’s published by a consortium of nonprofits, the average farmer in Ghana in the 2013–14 growing season made just 84¢ per day, and farmers in Ivory Coast a mere 50¢. That puts them well below the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35785293 |
Fair trade cocoa 2) Fair Trade certification organizations regularly inspect cocoa producers to ensure that they meet child labor standards. Fair Trade acts immediately when infractions are found to protect the children involved and secure their safety. 3) Fair Trade standards promote environmental sustainability in pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35785293 |
Fair trade cocoa Typically, the farmers who grow the cocoa beans only receive 3.2% of the price of the final cocoa bar. In Ghana and the Ivory Coast, the two largest contributors of chocolate in the world, farmers will make as little $0.50 per day and the majority of their income is dependent on cocoa farming. In the p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35785293 |
Fair trade cocoa Without increasing income, the chocolate supply will fall as the aging population is unable to produce at current levels. Since 1998, Fair Trade USA has helped US-based companies using fair trade cocoa to generate more than $220 million in additional income for their cocoa cooperative farming communiti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35785293 |
Fair trade cocoa In Côte d'Ivoire, where much of the country's wealth and employment is based on cocoa production, the government and the rebel group Forces Nouvelles (FN) are competing for fair trade cocoa producing land; revenues from the cocoa trade have contributed to funding armed conflict. After the 2010 presiden... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35785293 |
Fair trade cocoa On a case by case basis, they must assess the environmental impacts of a cocoa farmer's operations, develop plans designed to mitigate those impacts and monitor the implementation of those plans. Although the environmental standards for fair trade certification vary by organization, they all include su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35785293 |
Fair trade cocoa The global chocolate industry was worth about $98 billion by the end of 2016. In 2015, the United States alone had a market size of $22 billion and 81% of Americans were consuming chocolate. This adds up to America producing about 1/5 of the world's demand for chocolate and the potential to have a majo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35785293 |
Fair trade cocoa Endangered Species Chocolate continues to guarantee that its cocoa farmers in the Conacado Co-op are receiving a fair wage. One caveat to this approach is the accountability to Fair Trade practices. Companies pay money to certifying organizations to receive certification, and this money is not going to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35785293 |
Fair trade cocoa Carol Off, author of "Bitter Chocolate: Investigating The Dark Side of the World’s Most Seductive Sweet", argues that the only solution to the issue of abusive child labor practices in cocoa production is to pay farmers a price at which they can employ adult workers. Off asserts that in order to receiv... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35785293 |
Fair trade cocoa The report suggested that it would be an uphill battle to improve the situation: According to the 2015 edition of the Cocoa Barometer, a biennial report examining the economics of cocoa that's published by a consortium of nonprofits, the average farmer in Ghana in the 2013–14 growing season made just 8... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35785293 |
Fair trade cocoa A report later that year by "New Food Economy" stated that the Child Labour Monitoring and Remediation Systems implemented by the International Cocoa Initiative and its partners has been useful, but "they are currently reaching less than 20 percent of the over two million children impacted". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35785293 |
Tim Harcourt is an Australian economist who is the J.W. Nevile Fellow in economics at the UNSW Business School, and an advisor to the Government of South Australia on international engagement. Harcourt was awarded a Bachelor of Economics (Honours) from the University of Adelaide, and a Master of Arts in Economics from ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35805991 |
Tim Harcourt Trading Places - The Airport Economist's guide to International Business UNSW Press 2014 | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35805991 |
Innosight is a management consulting firm advising enterprises on business strategy. was founded in 2000 by Harvard Business School professor Clayton M. Christensen and senior partner Mark W. Johnson. uses methods based on the concept of disruptive innovation, a theory defined by Christensen in his book "The Innovator'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35819224 |
Sweatworking is business networking while taking physical exercise and so working up a sweat. This way of working originated in the USA and started to be promoted in London in 2012, where gyms offered facilities and sessions of this kind. Journalist Lucy Kellaway tried sweatworking with the chairman of Wiggle, Andy Bon... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35859796 |
The Intention Economy In April 2012, Doc Searls' book The Intention Economy: When Customers Take Charge was published (). Searls coined the term intention economy in a March 2006 article for Linux Journal. He wrote: "grows around buyers, not sellers. It leverages the simple fact that buyers are the first source of mone... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35862247 |
Lex monetae is a Latin phrase which means that a sovereign state chooses which currency it will use and that the meaning of units of above-mentioned currency is determined by the law of the country whose money is in question. The concept has been identified as a potential problem if the Eurozone breaks up or a member s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35884202 |
Bruntwood is a family-owned property company offering office space, serviced offices, retail space and virtual offices in the north of England and Birmingham in the United Kingdom. They own several high-profile buildings in the Manchester area, as well as in Liverpool, Leeds and Birmingham. Bruntwood's portfolio of ove... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35894340 |
Abacus (journal) Abacus is a peer-reviewed quarterly academic journal published by Wiley-Blackwell on behalf of the Accounting Foundation (University of Sydney). It was established in 1965 and the editor-in-chief is Stewart Jones (University of Sydney). According to the "Journal Citation Reports", the journal has a 201... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=35982564 |
Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson MBE (26 May 1909 – 12 April 2003) was an English economist. Marjorie Eileen Henrietta Grice-Hutchinson was born in 1908, in Eastbourne, Sussex, the daughter of George Grice-Hutchinson and Edith Louise Eastwick Grice-Hutchinson. Her father was a solicitor, and a Member of Parliament before she ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36011762 |
Marjorie Grice-Hutchinson Her book "The School of Salamanca" was reprinted in 2009 by the Ludwig von Mises Institute. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36011762 |
The Innovator's Dilemma The Innovator's Dilemma: When New Technologies Cause Great Firms to Fail, generally referred to as The Innovator's Dilemma, first published in 1997, is the best-known work of the Harvard professor and businessman Clayton Christensen. It expands on the concept of disruptive technologies, a term h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36044102 |
The Innovator's Dilemma Through this compelling multi-industry study, Christensen introduces his seminal theory of "disruptive innovation" that has changed the way managers and CEOs around the world think about innovation. Christensen then argues that the following are common principles that incumbents must address: He... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36044102 |
The Innovator's Dilemma Since the book was published, various articles have been written, both critiquing and supporting Clayton Christensen's work. "The Innovator's Dilemma" proved popular; not only was it reprinted, but a follow-on book entitled "The Innovator's Solution" was published. His books "Disrupting Class" a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36044102 |
Comparison of crowdfunding services Crowdfunding is a process in which individuals or groups pool money and other resources to fund projects initiated by other people or organizations "without standard financial intermediaries." Crowdfunded projects may include creative works, products, nonprofit organizations, support... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36057385 |
Comparison of crowdfunding services “Approximately 25 percent of real-world relationships start online, with people of all ages migrating online to find a partner. Crowdfunding is doing for small businesses and entrepreneurs what dating sites have done for singles.” Those unable to procure funding from traditional meth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36057385 |
Comparison of crowdfunding services Equity crowdfunding helps "the 90 percent of businesses that were left out in the cold" by traditional funding methods, which is why it has become such a viable option for business startups. Equity-based funding is illegal in many countries, such as India. In the United States theJOB... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36057385 |
Comparison of crowdfunding services This type of crowdfunding "is part of a trend in which people are relying less on charities to help them fulfill their philanthropic aims". The best example might be raising funds from individuals to support personal or social causes. People make donations for different reasons and g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36057385 |
Comparison of crowdfunding services More research is needed in regard to the topic of crowdfunding in general. There are benefits to online crowdfunding as it has the ability to tap into audiences that are not close in geographic proximity to an individual or organization and to increase awareness about a campaign. How... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36057385 |
Mouvement Anti-Utilitariste dans les Sciences Sociales The Mouvement anti-utilitariste dans les sciences sociales (Anti-utilitarian Movement in the Social Sciences) is a French intellectual movement. It is based around the ideology of "anti-utilitarianism", a critique of economism in social sciences and instrumental ra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36093464 |
Druker v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue Druker v. Commissioner of Internal Revenue, 697 F.2d 46 (2d Cir. 1982), is a decision of the United States Court of Appeals for the Second Circuit affirming the constitutionality of the marriage penalty. The plaintiffs, James O. Druker and his wife Joan, claimed that the "inco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=36095948 |
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