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Leakage (retail) A price or pocket edge waterfall examination provides a measure of the achieved net and pocketed prices or edges against set defined price targets. A leakage analysis is considered to be one of the most profitable tools in deciding on particular commercial enterprises with retail potential in a given l... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24280175 |
Leakage (retail) Digital shoppers are usually unaware (or mistaken) of the physical location of the company they are buying from. This can give rise to an increase in unsatisfied demand for digital shopping services in certain locations where the provision of e-commerce is limited. For example, if the retailers in a pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24280175 |
Vietnam Investor Confidence Index The measures the attitude of both Vietnamese local and foreign investors (investing into Vietnam stock market) to risk. The index is calculated monthly since January 2007 and developed by Woori CBV Securities Corporation. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24280828 |
Hahn's problem The (or Hahn's question) refers to the theoretical challenge of building general equilibrium models where money does not enter preferences, yet has a positive equilibrium value. Money, since it is intrinsically worthless and is not demanded for its own sake, may not be made to enter the utility function ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24283314 |
Financial Literacy and Education Commission The (the Commission) was established under Title V, the Financial Literacy and Education Improvement Act which was part of the Fair and Accurate Credit Transactions Act (FACT) Act of 2003, to improve financial literacy and education of persons in the United States. The FACT A... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24284387 |
Johansen test In statistics, the Johansen test, named after Søren Johansen, is a procedure for testing cointegration of several, say "k", I(1) time series. This test permits more than one cointegrating relationship so is more generally applicable than the Engle–Granger test which is based on the Dickey–Fuller (or the a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24339475 |
International Journal of Manpower The is an academic journal published by the Emerald Group, (formerly MCB University Press), addressing topics in labour economics and human resource planning. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24343684 |
Recapitalization is a type of corporate reorganization involving substantial change in a company's capital structure. may be motivated by a number of reasons. Usually, the large part of equity is replaced with debt or vice versa. In more complicated transactions, mezzanine financing and other hybrid securities are invo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24351004 |
Value Expectations (VE) is a stock blog and investment newsletter. was created by Dan Obrycki and Rafael Resendes, the founders of The Applied Finance Group and Toreador Research and Trading. Rafael Resendes Prior to co-founding AFG, Resendes was a member of the Chicago Board of Trade and served as director of research... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24353107 |
Form N-1A is a registration statement used by investment companies to create new open-end mutual funds. A company must file this form with the Securities and Exchange Commission's EDGAR filing system. Companies file an N-1A under the Investment Company Act of 1940 if they wish to register shares of the mutual fund. The... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24360090 |
EconLit is an academic literature abstracting database service published by the American Economic Association. The service focuses on literature in the field of economics. covers articles and other materials dating back to 1969. It uses the JEL classification codes for classifying papers by subject. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24379735 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value Criticisms of the labor theory of value affect the historical concept of labor theory of value (LTV) which spans classical economics, liberal economics, Marxian economics, neo-Marxian economics, and anarchist economics. As an economic theory of value, LTV is central to Marxist s... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value Proponents of the labor theory of value (LTV) would reply that in capitalism the price of a good is not simply measured by its usefulness but by its price. It depends on a pre-existing set of relations of distribution. These relations of distribution in turn rest on a set of rel... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value With Marx, working time is not based on a free decision of households, but the outcome of a class struggle between workers and capitalists, the former trying to decrease, the latter to increase working time. Further, all this does not take account of effects of the accumulation ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value In this sense, an LTV, or, more precisely, a value theory of marginal labor inputs, holds. However, this applies to all factors of production and also to marginal utility. Labor is nothing special. That these several value theories can hold all at the same time is made possible ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value A non-economic good (a quantity of timber in a virgin forest, for example) does not attain value for men since large quantities of labor or other economic goods were not applied to its production. Whether a diamond was found accidentally or was obtained from a diamond pit with t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value A steel ladder, for example, is produced and brought to market only if the demand supports the digging of iron ore, the smelting of steel, the machines that press that steel into ladder shape, the machines that make and help maintain those machines and so on. Roundabout processe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value Entrepreneurs, he claimed, have given up a safer wage-earning job to take on the role of entrepreneur. In other words, he claimed that profits compensated the entrepreneur for the willingness to bear risk and to wait to receive income. Böhm-Bawerk's essential argument that emplo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value If the tips were not sufficient to provide this return on investment, then the waiter would rationally seek other employment, such as a wage-earning job with similar compensation that does not include the risk element or an entrepreneurial job with similar risk that provides a b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value Marx argues in "Capital": Thus, according to Marx any labor power squandered during the production of a commodity, i.e. labor that is socially unnecessary, does not add value as value is determined by the average social labor. Robert Nozick has criticised the qualifier "socially... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value For the "labor value" concept to work, the society needs must be "perfectly known before production commences", the needs must not change in the meantime and the effect of production is required to actually satisfy society's needs, complying with the previously established plan.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value It is often assumed that the LTV would apply in a socialist (or post-capitalist) society, though (purportedly at least) without the corresponding exploitation. However, Marx argued in his "Critique of the Gotha Programme": David Ramsay Steele expands on this: The LTV is a theory... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value In other cases, the price-form represents the indirect socially necessary labor that could be usefully employed: Marx stated that only labor could cause an increase in exchange value. Assuming that all labor is equal, this suggests that labor-intensive industries ought to realiz... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value Anarchist Robert Paul Wolff, despite identifying as a Marxist on economic matters, nevertheless offers such a critique, saying "By reproducing for corn [grain] or iron or coal, all the striking results that Marx derived concerning for labor, we have, it seems to me, raised quest... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value Some supporters of the LTV, however, accept the thrust of the "corn theory of value" critique, but emphasise the "social" aspect of what Marx calls the "common social substance", arguing that labor power is unique as it is the only commodity not sold by capitalists but rather so... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value ” David Steele argues that Marx gives no good reason why labor should have a "privileged position in the determination of prices", when any other input could be used - machines, paper or even capital itself. Steele notes that commodities almost never have equal quantities of lab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value The same thing, of course, could be done with 'electricity', 'liquid', 'metal', or 'machines', or it could be done with 'capital' (constant capital, which would then have to be renamed variable capital), thus showing that the capitalist class produces all wealth and is exploited... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value Steele argues this is mistaken as it is based on the view that supply and demand are magnitudes or numbers, when really they can be viewed more like schedules or functions. Supply and demand, when equal, do not cancel each other out but rather coincide; at that price, the quanti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value When grapes are harvested and crushed, labour is used. However, when yeast is added and the grape juice is left to ferment in order to get wine, the value of wine exceeds that of the grapes significantly, yet labour contributes nothing to the extra value. Marx had ignored capita... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value It has been argued that Marx's effort to distinguish between skilled and unskilled labor was incoherent, as all labor ultimately required some degree of skill - true unskilled labor would only be possible with mindless automatons as workers still need to think in order to produc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value In addition, the economy is almost never at a fully competitive equilibrium, so there is no guarantee that the education and training will be transacted for at their value. Lastly, it is unclear what should be used as measure of unskilled labor (the unskilled labor of a school g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value [A] medal [or an enemy] flag are not valued for their objective properties, nor are they valued for the amount of labour embodied in them, rather they are desired for the symbolic positions they occupy in the inter-subjective network of desires. Pilkington says that this is a di... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Criticisms of the labour theory of value , embodied labor, energy, land, and water), rather than in terms of an underpayment of material inputs or an asymmetric transfer of 'value'". In other words, uneven exchange is characterised by incommensurability, namely: the unequal transfer of material inputs; competing value-... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24385428 |
Cost of electricity by source The distinct methods of electricity generation can incur significantly different costs and these costs can occur at significantly different times relative to when the power is used. Also, calculations of these costs can be made at the point of connection to a load or to the electricity gri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source In explicit mathematical terms levelized cost of electricity (LCOE) is given by: Typically the LCOE is calculated over the design lifetime of a plant, which is usually 20 to 40 years, and given in the units of currency per kilowatt-hour or megawatt-day, for example AUD/kWh or EUR/kWh or pe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source Levelized avoided cost of energy (LACE) is the avoided costs from other sources divided by the annual yearly output of the non-dispatchable source. However, the avoided cost is much harder to calculate accurately. A more accurate economic assessment might be the marginal cost of electricit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source This happens at two levels: Thermally lethargic technologies like coal and solid-fuel nuclear are physically incapable of fast ramping. However, many designs of Generation 4 molten fuel nuclear reactors will be capable of fast ramping because (A) the neutron poison xenon-135 can be removed... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source Another limitation of the LCOE metric is the influence of energy efficiency and conservation (EEC). EEC has caused the electricity demand of many countries to remain flat or decline. Considering only the LCOE for utility scale plants will tend to maximise generation and risks overestimatin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source These may include enabling costs, environmental impacts, usage lifespans, energy storage, recycling costs, or beyond-insurance accident effects. The US Energy Information Administration predicts that coal and gas are set to be continually used to deliver the majority of the world's electri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source Carbon pricing charges those who emit carbon dioxide (CO) for their emissions. That charge, called a 'carbon price', is the amount that must be paid for the right to emit one tonne of CO into the atmosphere. Carbon pricing usually takes the form of a carbon tax or a requirement to purchase... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source As private insurers base dam insurance premiums on limited scenarios, major disaster insurance in this sector is likewise provided by the state. Because externalities are diffuse in their effect, external costs can not be measured directly, but must be estimated. One approach estimate exte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source Decommissioning costs of power plants are usually not included (nuclear power plants in the United States is an exception, because the cost of decommissioning is included in the price of electricity per the Nuclear Waste Policy Act), is therefore not full cost accounting. These types of it... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source " The International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) released a study based on comprehensive international datasets in May 2019 which found "In most parts of the world today, renewables are the lowest-cost source of new power generation. As costs for solar and wind technologies continue fal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source Wind is the lowest cost large-scale renewable energy source, while rooftop solar panels are competitive with retail electricity prices. By 2030 the LCOE ranges of both conventional coal and gas technologies as well as wind and large-scale solar converge to a common range of A$50 to A$100 p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source Solar power was by far the most expensive renewable source of electricity among the technologies studied, although increasing efficiency and longer lifespan of photovoltaic panels together with reduced production costs have made this source of energy more competitive since 2011. By 2017, t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source The Institution of Engineers and Shipbuilders in Scotland commissioned a former Director of Operations of the British National Grid, Colin Gibson, to produce a report on generation levelised costs that for the first time would include some of the transmission costs as well as the generatio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source The LCOE below is calculated based off a 30-year recovery period using a real after tax weighted average cost of capital (WACC) of 6.1%. For carbon intensive technologies 3 percentage points are added to the WACC. (This is approximately equivalent fee of $15 per metric ton of carbon dioxid... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source For utility-scale generation put into service in 2040, the EIA estimated in 2015 that there would be further reductions in the constant-dollar cost of concentrated solar power (CSP) (down 18%), solar photovoltaic (down 15%), offshore wind (down 11%), and advanced nuclear (down 7%). The cos... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source Small photovoltaic power plants on roofs of houses are still at 184–300 USD per MWh, but which can do without electricity transport costs. Onshore wind turbines are 32–77 USD per MWh. One drawback is the intermittency of solar and wind power. The study suggests a solution in batteries as a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source Below are the unsubsidized LCOSs for different battery technologies for "behind the meter" (BTM) applications. Below are the unsubsidized LCOSs for different battery technologies "front of the meter" (FTM) applications. Note: Flow battery value range estimates In November 2018 Lazard relea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source There has been fierce competition in the supply chain, and further improvements in the levelised cost of energy for solar lie ahead, posing a growing threat to the dominance of fossil fuel generation sources in the next few years. As time progresses, renewable energy technologies generally... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source The declining price of PV has been reflected in rapidly growing installations, totaling a worldwide cumulative capacity of 297 GW by end 2016. According to some estimates total investment in renewables for 2011 exceeded investment in carbon-based electricity generation. In the case of self... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source As for example, PV and cogen and batteries while reducing energy- and electricity-related greenhouse gas emissions as compared to conventional sources. LCOE of solar thermal power with energy storage which can operate round the clock on demand, has fallen to AU$78/MWh (US$61/MWh) in August... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source Wind power can be contracted via a power purchase agreement at two cents per kilowatt hour while the operating costs for power generation in existing coal-burning plants remain above three cents. In 2016 the Norwegian Wind Energy Association (NORWEA) estimated the LCoE of a typical Norwegi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Cost of electricity by source Equipment makers can also deliver products in the same year that they are ordered instead of waiting up to three years as was the case in previous cycles... 5,600 MW of new installed capacity is under construction in the United States, more than double the number at this point in 2010. 35%... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24400357 |
Economics Bulletin The is a peer-reviewed open access academic journal that publishes concise notes, comments, and preliminary results in all areas of economics. The journal does not accept appeals and new versions of previously declined manuscripts. The journal was established in 2001 by Myrna Wooders. The current edi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24414117 |
German Economic Review The is a peer-reviewed academic journal of economics published quarterly by John Wiley & Sons on behalf of the Verein für Socialpolitik, of which it is an official journal. It was established in 2000. The current editors-in-chief are Peter H. Egger, Almut Balleer, Jesus Crespo-Cuaresma, Mario Lar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24420373 |
Tom Piotrowski (economist) Tom Piotrowski (born 1967) is an Australian economist working for financial services company CommSec as a market analyst. Piotrowski regularly presents stock market updates for CommSec on Australian television. As a result of his presence on television, he has become a cult figure, including ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24455751 |
Global Development Finance The World Bank’s Global Development Finance, External Debt of Developing Countries (GDF) is the sole repository for statistics on the external debt of developing countries on a loan-by-loan basis. This edition of GDF presents reported or estimated data on the total external debt of all low-an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24456829 |
Global Development Finance The Economic and Social Data Service (ESDS) International provides the macro-economic datasets free of charge for members of UK higher and further education institutions. In order to access the data, users have to be registered which can be done here. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24456829 |
Africa Development Indicators The World Bank is a compilation of data, assembled by the World Bank, representing over 1,400 indicators of development in Sub-Saharan Africa. The information is updated annually from a variety of sources with datasets being available from 1960 onwards. Topics covered by the data include n... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24456873 |
Africa Development Indicators Alternatively, the data is available to download on the World Bank website, which requires a subscription. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24456873 |
Journal of International Economic Law Journal of International Economic Law, published by the Oxford University Press, is one of the most highly cited international law journals in the world. The journal published on topics of international economic law, broadly conceived. The journal was formerly edited by John H. Jac... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24481151 |
Economics Network The is one of the subject networks originally established by the Higher Education Academy (HEA). On its founding it was known as the "Learning and Teaching Support Network (LTSN) for Economics" later becoming independent of the HEA. It has as its aims the improvement of learning and teaching in econom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24483421 |
Anton Brender is a member of the Cercle des économistes. He is also a professor at the Paris Dauphine University, and Chief Economist for the Belgian-French financial institution Candriam. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24490668 |
Gale (loudspeaker) Gale is a London-based loudspeaker, studio monitor, speaker stands and speaker wire manufacturer which distributes internationally. It started producing loudspeakers in 1972. Gale loudspeakers have won several hi-fi awards. The countries that hold distributors include the following: The products that... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24516744 |
Gossen Prize The is an annual award given by the Verein für Socialpolitik to German-speaking economists under the age of 45 whose work gained international recognition. The jury—the extended committee of the Verein für Socialpolitik—especially considers the scientist's number of publications in prestigious English-spea... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24521088 |
SZSE Component Index The is an index of 500 stocks that are traded at the Shenzhen Stock Exchange (SZSE). It is the main stock market index of SZSE. The full list of all constituent stocks can be found at SZSE. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24522075 |
Credit circle A credit circle is created when members of a common group, typically a trade association or federation, come together to share information on credit related matters of their customers, such as late payers or bad debtors. Credit Circles traditionally would meet together on a fairly regular basis, although ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24524366 |
The Magic Cauldron (essay) "The Magic Cauldron" is an essay by Eric S. Raymond on the open-source economic model. It can be read freely online and was published in his book "The Cathedral and Bazaar" in 1999. The essay analyzes the economic models that Raymond believes can sustain an open-source project in four steps: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24538247 |
Play money is noticeably fake bills or coins intended to be used use as toy currency, especially for classroom instruction or as a marker in board games such as Monopoly, rather than currency in a legitimate exchange market. coins and bills are collected widely. They can be found made from metals, cardboard or, more fr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24540612 |
Functional finance is an economic theory proposed by Abba P. Lerner, based on effective demand principles and chartalism. It states that government should finance itself to meet explicit goals, such as taming the business cycle, achieving full employment, ensuring growth, and low inflation. The principal ideas behind f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24580729 |
Aurora Fashions was a holding company of several retail fashion brands, formed in 2009 to purchase a number of businesses from the collapsed Mosaic Fashions. The company operates over 1250 stores in 38 countries, including franchises, under the Oasis, Warehouse and Coast brands. In March 2011, the company announced pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24580848 |
Città dell'arte Fashion: Bio Ethical Sustainable Trend is an initiative of the "Fondazione Pistoletto" (Pistoletto Foundation) to promote sustainability in the fashion industry. It was unveiled by Vogue Italia editor-in-chief Franca Sozzani and the artist Michelangelo Pistoletto at a press conference at Pistoletto's st... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24586740 |
Pre-Marxist communism While Karl Marx and Friedrich Engels defined communism as a political movement, there were already similar ideas in the past which one could call communist experiments. Marx himself saw primitive communism as the original hunter-gatherer state of humankind. For Marx, only after humanity was capabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24601516 |
Pre-Marxist communism While Plato's vision cannot be considered a precursor of communist thinking, his utopian speculations that are shared by other utopian thinkers later on. There are those who view that the early Christian Church, such as that one described in the Acts of the Apostles (see Christian communism), was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24601516 |
Pre-Marxist communism In the 16th century, English writer Sir Thomas More portrayed a society based on common ownership of property in his treatise "Utopia", whose leaders administered it through the application of reason. Several groupings in the English Civil War supported this idea, but especially the Diggers, who e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24601516 |
Pre-Marxist communism The word ""communism"" was first used in English by Goodwyn Barmby in a conversation with those he described as the "disciples of Babeuf". He has been called "The First Revolutionary Communist." The Shakers of the 18th century under Joseph Meacham developed and practiced their own form of communal... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24601516 |
Pre-Marxist communism The Chachapoya culture indicated a egalitarian non-hierarchical society through a lack of archaeological evidence and a lack of power expressing architecture that would be expected for societal leaders such as royalty or aristocracy. Marx saw communism as the original state of mankind from which i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24601516 |
Nickel–lithium battery The nickel–lithium battery, also known as Ni–Li, is an experimental battery using a nickel hydroxide cathode and lithium anode. The two metals cannot normally be used together in a battery, as there are no electrolytes compatible with both. The LISICON design uses a layer of porous glass to separ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24610803 |
Economics of participation is an umbrella term spanning the economic analysis of worker cooperatives, labor managed firms, profit sharing, gain sharing, employee ownership, employee stock ownership plans, works councils, codetermination, and other programs and policies by which employees participate in decision making ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24613993 |
Mootral is the name given to a programme to reduce methane emissions from ruminant animals, chiefly cows and sheep, but also goats. Methane is a major target greenhouse gas and in the 4th protocol report of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) is recommended to increase from a x23 to x72 multiplier beca... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24642315 |
Nieco (National Industrial Equipment Co.) is a commercial kitchen equipment manufacturer specializing in automatic broilers based in Windsor, California. The company Golden Rule Metal Products was founded in 1905 in San Francisco as a sheet metal manufacturer. In 1967, it was purchased by Gene Larson of Power Refrigera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24654282 |
The Other Canon Foundation is a center and network for research of heterodox economics founded by Erik Reinert. The name refers to the founders' message of there being another economic canon, alternative to the ruling neoclassical economics. Their suggestions, they claim, are valid for and can be applicated in the firs... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24669676 |
The Other Canon Foundation Joseph Schumpeter, John Maynard Keynes, Karl Marx, Gunnar Myrdal, Gustav von Schmoller, Werner Sombart, Nicholas Kaldor, Max Weber and Adam Smith (for considerations of the primary sector) are among the theorists to have influenced The Other Canon. In accordance with Schumpeter, The Other Can... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24669676 |
The Other Canon Foundation Conforming with Schumpeterian theory The Other Canon emphasises the constant change in the economy and that entrepreneurs and capitalists all the time create temporary monopolies based on advantages of knowledge and/or uncertain assumptions about the future. The fact that mainstream economics... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24669676 |
The Other Canon Foundation Paul Krugman, however, takes use of increasing returns to scale in his New Trade Theory to explain the success of the industrialised countries, but leaves out diminishing returns to scale explaining the misery of the Third World. The view of the economy as largely independent from society and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24669676 |
Cluster theory is a theory of strategy. Alfred Marshall, in his book "Principles of Economics", published in 1890, first characterised clusters as a "concentration of specialised industries in particular localities" that he termed industrial districts. The theory states that concentrating industries in specific regions... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24693249 |
Texas State Securities Board The is a Texas state agency headquartered in Austin, Texas. The Board enforces the Texas Securities Act (TEX. REV. CIV. STAT. ANN. art. 581-1) and maintains programs for enforcement, registration of securities, registration of securities dealers, investment advisers, and agents, and inspect... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24701100 |
Colloidal fuel is an emulsion of powdered coal in kerosene or fuel oil. It was used in World War I aboard ships as kerosene supplies ran low. Development continued after the war, and in 1932 the Cunard liner "Scythia" made a round-trip transatlantic voyage partly powered by colloidal fuel containing 40% coal. Advantage... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24709684 |
Farm crisis A farm crisis describes times of agricultural recession, low crop prices and low farm incomes. The most recent US farm crisis occurred during the 1980s. A farm crisis began in the 1920s, commonly believed to be a result of high production for military needs in World War I. At the onset of the crisis, there ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24739031 |
Farm crisis The Agricultural Marketing Act of 1929 intended to bring government aid to cooperatives. It allowed the Federal Farm Board to make loans and other assistances in hopes of stabilizing surplus and prices. Later, Agricultural Adjustment Act (AAA), which was enacted on May 12, 1933, aimed to bring back pre Worl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24739031 |
Farm crisis Exports fell, due in part to the 1980 United States grain embargo against the Soviet Union. Farm debt for land and equipment purchases soared during the 1970s and early 1980s, doubling between 1978 and 1984. Other negative economic factors included high interest rates, high oil prices and a strong dollar. B... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24739031 |
SuperFreakonomics SuperFreakonomics: Global Cooling, Patriotic Prostitutes, and Why Suicide Bombers Should Buy Life Insurance is the second non-fiction book by University of Chicago economist Steven Levitt and "The New York Times" journalist Stephen J. Dubner, released in early October 2009 in Europe and on October 20,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24750056 |
SuperFreakonomics Altruism is discussed in the third chapter, and uses examples of the murder of Kitty Genovese, crime rates as affected by television, and economic experimental games such as prisoner's dilemma, ultimatum, and the work of John A. List. The fourth chapter is about unintended consequences and simple fixe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24750056 |
SuperFreakonomics In the book's fifth chapter, the author proposes that the climate system can be intentionally regulated by construction of a stratoshield. The chapter has been criticized by economists and climate science experts who say it contains numerous misleading statements and discredited arguments. Among the c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24750056 |
SuperFreakonomics " As it transpired, Dubner had been apprised of Caldeira's objection to the "right villain" assertion, but did not delete the line as Caldeira expected, although Caldeira believes this was due to a good faith misunderstanding. Regarding their own views on global warming, Levitt and Dubner have stated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24750056 |
Reverse innovation or trickle-up innovation is an innovation seen or used first in the developing world, before spreading to the industrialized world. The term was popularized by Dartmouth professors Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble and GE's Jeffrey R. Immelt. Subsequently, Vijay Govindarajan and Chris Trimble publ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24769743 |
Reverse innovation The term 'reverse innovation' was originally defined differently as – innovation blowback – by John Hagel III and John Seely Brown in their 2005 "McKinsey Quarterly" article titled "Innovation blowback: Disruptive management practices from Asia." In essence, their message warns that "the periphery of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24769743 |
Reverse innovation System-wide benefits may also be seen as accruing across every part of the World Health Organization Health Systems Framework, specifically the six building blocks of health systems: (1) service delivery; (2) health workforce; (3) health information; (4) medical products, vaccines, and technologies; ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24769743 |
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