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Reverse innovation – In 2009, Tata Motors planned to sell an upgraded version of the Tata Nano in western markets; the project was called Tata Europa (but it actually never reached the expected market). – Procter & Gamble found that a honey-based cold remedy created for Mexico also had a profitable market in Europe and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24769743 |
Income deprivation affecting children index (UK) The income deprivation affecting children index (IDACI) is an index of deprivation used in the United Kingdom. The index is calculated by the Office of the Deputy Prime Minister and measures in a local area the proportion of children under the age of 16 that live in low ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24783442 |
Ousmane Baldé (died 1971) was a Guinean economist and politician. He was President of the Central Bank of the Republic of Guinea and served as a Minister of Finance. He was accused of being a mercenary in the Portuguese invasion of Guinea, arrested, and hanged without trial in 1971 along with Ibrahima Barry, Magassouba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24804361 |
Filthy Lucre: Economics for People Who Hate Capitalism is a 2009 book by Joseph Heath. The book is organized around twelve fallacies or myths associated with economics, six of which are common on the left, and six of which are common on the right. It considers ideas like that the government should get out of the way of... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24813732 |
Filthy Lucre: Economics for People Who Hate Capitalism Trade specialization increases efficiency thereby increasing the price value of one's labour. This is because the price value of labour is a function of the efficiency of an economy. In the book Heath criticizes the idea that tax-paying is inherently different from... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24813732 |
Sun scoop A or sunscoop is a refueling technique for starships seen in science fiction. It involves a literal scooping of plasma directly from the outer surface of a star to use as fuel. Doing so would be extremely dangerous and only used in emergency situations. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24813796 |
Market rate The market rate (or "going rate") for goods or services is the usual price charged for them in a free market. If demand goes up, manufacturers and laborers will tend to respond by increasing the price they require, thus setting a higher market rate. When demand falls, market rates also tend to fall (see Sup... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24822109 |
Watt-hour per kilogram The watt-hour per kilogram (SI symbol: W⋅h/kg) is a unit of specific energy commonly used to measure the density of energy in batteries and capacitors. One watt-hour per kilogram is equal to 3,600 joules per kilogram. The batteries that Tesla uses in their electric cars have about 254 W⋅h/kg, com... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24844129 |
AK model The of economic growth is an endogenous growth model used in the theory of economic growth, a subfield of modern macroeconomics. In the 1980s it became progressively clearer that the standard neoclassical exogenous growth models were theoretically unsatisfactory as tools to explore long run growth, as these mo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24848842 |
AK model During the mid-1980s a new beginning of growth theory launched by Paul Romer in 1986, where he tried to explain the growth process in a different manner. Thus the dissatisfaction out of neoclassical model motivated to construct new growth theories where the key determination of growth theories are endogenous i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24848842 |
AK model formula_4 = population growth rate<br> formula_5 = depreciation <br> formula_6 = capital per worker <br> formula_7 = output/income per worker<br> formula_8 = labor force <br> formula_9 = saving rate In an alternative form formula_10, formula_11 embodies both physical capital and human capital. In the above equ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24848842 |
Mobile workflow Mobile Workflows are specialized workflows aimed to address deployment of workflows in mobile device infrastructure enabling automation of process interaction with traditional business processes from within the device. Mobile Process - Workflows for Mobile centric services composition | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24852563 |
Upstream price An upstream price is the price of one of the main inputs of production (for processing/manufacturing etc.) or a price quoted on higher market levels (e.g. wholesale markets). Upstream prices are the prices paid by producers (as opposed to consumers), and are directly related to the cost of production. In... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24907018 |
Inventory bounce is a term used in economics to describe an economy's bounce back to normal GDP levels after a recession. Firms usually keep a certain amount of inventory. When an economy faces a recession, sales might be unexpectedly low, which results in unexpectedly high inventory. In the next period, firms cut prod... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24931043 |
Malaysia–New Zealand Free Trade Agreement The was signed on 26 October 2009 in Kuala Lumpur. Malaysia is New Zealand's eighth-largest export destination, reaching almost 8 billion dollars' worth of exports in 2008. It was ratified by the Parliament of New Zealand on 24 June 2010 and entered into force on 1 August 2010. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24944586 |
Participation certificate A Participation Certificate (PC) is a special form of participation in Swiss stock corporations (). Although this security secures property rights in the issuing company, the participation certificate does not confer any membership or voting rights. The issue of this special financing tool is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24956706 |
Participation certificate With this participation approach, banks and financial institutions come together either on risk sharing or non-risk sharing basis. While providing short term funds, participation certificates can also be used to reduce risk. The rate at which these certificates can be issued will be negotiable... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24956706 |
Kazimieras Antanavičius (economist) Kazimieras Antanavičius (November 25, 1937 – April 16, 1998) was a Lithuanian economist and politician, signatory of the Act of the Re-Establishment of the State of Lithuania and member of the Seimas. Antanavičius was born in Balsėnai village, Kretinga district, Lithuania on November... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24969622 |
Kazimieras Antanavičius (economist) In 1997 he returned to teaching, lecturing at the Vytautas Magnus University and working at the Lithuanian Academy of Sciences. Antanavičius died on 16 April 1998. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24969622 |
Variable rate debt obligation A variable rate debt obligation (VRDO) is a tax-exempt short-term investment instrument based on long-term municipal bonds. The total value of outstanding VRDOs was estimated at $500 billion in November 2008. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24970128 |
E7 (countries) The E7 (short for "Emerging 7") is the seven countries China, India, Brazil, Mexico, Russia, Indonesia and Turkey, grouped together because of their major emerging economies. The term was coined by the economists John Hawksworth and Gordon Cookson at PricewaterhouseCoopers in 2006. The growth of the E7 c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24971655 |
Journal of Interdisciplinary Economics The is a peer-reviewed academic journal covering economics. The journal is abstracted and indexed in Scopus, Research Papers in Economics, and ProQuest databases. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=24985057 |
Positive recall is a term used in quality systems, most notably ISO9000. It defines the concept that if a producer or manufacturer has a product or process that requires inspection and it wishes to postpone the inspection process, it must have a system in place that will insure that the postponed inspection process wil... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25033339 |
Labor notes (currency) Labor notes are an alternative currency based on exchange of hours of labor. Two early attempts at implementing labor notes were made by social reformers Josiah Warren and Robert Owen following their experiences attempting to establish a utopian community at New Harmony, Indiana in which currency... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25034181 |
Relative purchasing power parity is an economic theory which predicts a relationship between the inflation rates of two countries over a specified period and the movement in the exchange rate between their two currencies over the same period. It is a dynamic version of the absolute purchasing power parity theory. Suppo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25041796 |
Relative purchasing power parity For example, if prices in the United States rise by 3% and prices in the European Union rise by 1% the purchasing power of the EUR should appreciate by approximately 2% compared to the purchasing power of the USD (equivalently the USD will depreciate by about 2%). Note that it is incorr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25041796 |
Center for Business and Economic Research The Ball State University (CBER), formerly the Bureau of Business Research, is an economic policy and forecasting research center housed within the Miller College of Business at Ball State University in Muncie, Indiana, USA. CBER research encompasses health care, public finance... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25059538 |
Center for Business and Economic Research CBER houses the managing office of the American Journal of Business, a peer-reviewed journal that publishes articles aimed at improving business practices or enhancing instructional efforts through application, transfer, and interpretation of knowledge. CBER also publishes the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25059538 |
GLAM (industry sector) GLAM is an acronym for "galleries, libraries, archives, and museums", and refers to cultural institutions with a mission to provide access to knowledge. GLAMs collect and maintain cultural heritage materials in the public interest. As collecting institutions, GLAMs preserve and make accessible pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25067975 |
GLAM (industry sector) Furthermore, during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries distinct professional societies and educational programs developed for each kind of institution. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25067975 |
Devolvement In the investment banking sector, particularly in India, devolvement is a process whereby if an investment issue is undersubscribed, an underwriter is required to subscribe to the remaining shares. The outstanding unsubscribed amount "devolves" onto the underwriter. This is also known as hard underwriting. ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25095727 |
British International Political Economy is a label attached by some (most notably Ben Cohen) to a particular approach to international political economy (IPE), an approach which increases the breadth of choices about what IPE really involves. Ben Cohen's book "International Political Economy: An Intellectual History" d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25099867 |
British International Political Economy For this British approach, a positivist methodology ("what is") is not so useful; rather, a "diachronic historical perspective" should be taken. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25099867 |
Vincent Ostrom Vincent Alfred Ostrom (September 25, 1919 – June 29, 2012) was an American political economist and the Founding Director of the Ostrom Workshop based at Indiana University and the Arthur F. Bentley Professor Emeritus of Political Science. He and his wife, the economist Elinor Ostrom, made numerous contri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25100058 |
Vincent Ostrom The Ostrom Workshop is committed to the collaborative engagement of faculty, students, and scholars, with a mission of advancing "the interdisciplinary study of institutions, incentives, and behavior as they relate to policy-relevant applications." The Ostrom Workshop research focuses on polycentrism, co... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25100058 |
Vincent Ostrom Ostrom co-developed (with Charles Tiebout and Robert Warren) and refined the concept of polycentricity in public administration – or multiple, formally independent decision-making centers within a system of government. He proposed that quasi-market conditions (i.e. competition) between decision centers w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25100058 |
Vincent Ostrom Ostrom considered the hierarchical order, accountable to a single center of power, less capable of serving the diverse needs among citizens and coping with diverse conditions, and less cost efficient than a polycentric administration. Fragmentation of authority among decision centers within a jurisdictio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25100058 |
The Birth of Coffee is a transmedia project which includes a book of words and images, a photographic exhibit, and a website. It focuses on the people worldwide who grow and produce coffee. The project illustrates how coffee – combined with the volatile locations where it grows and labor-intensive growing processes – o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25101599 |
The Birth of Coffee She addresses the social and historical impact of the coffee trade on producing nations, as well as on the people who grow it. exhibition is composed of 40 original gelatin silver prints, selected from the book, complemented by the author's narrative text. To date, it has exhibited in 14+ U.S. citie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25101599 |
ANSI C12.10 is the ANSI "American National Standard for Physical Aspects of Watt-hour Meters". This standard covers the physical aspects of both detachable and bottom-connected watt-hour meters and associated registers. These include ratings, internal wiring arrangements, pertinent dimensions, markings and other genera... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25115903 |
Taxation in Antigua and Barbuda In Antigua and Barbuda, the profits tax for corporations in 2003 was 40%. Incorporated businesses are taxed at 2% of gross income with the first $4,160 of income per month tax-exempt. The income tax, introduced in 1924, was abolished for residents at the end of 1976. Taxes on residential... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25125405 |
Spinning (IPO) is the act or practice of an investment bank offering under-priced shares of a company's initial public offerings to the senior executives of a third party company in exchange for future business with the investment bank. This conflict of interest was a relatively common way for investment banks to attra... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25132270 |
Amoroso–Robinson relation The Amoroso–Robinson relation, named after economists Luigi Amoroso and Joan Robinson, describes the relation between price, marginal revenue, and elasticity of demand. formula_1, where In 1967, Ernst Lykke Jensen published two extensions, one deterministic, the other probabilistic, of Amoroso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25139025 |
Non-tax revenue or non-tax receipts are government revenue not generated from taxes. Non-tax revenues can fluctuate significantly from one year to another. Indeed, their value is correlated with changing economic circumstances, repayments and interest on loans may be renegotiated, a record fine in the field of competit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25143733 |
Director's law states that the bulk of public programs are designed primarily to benefit the middle classes but are financed by taxes paid primarily by the upper and lower classes. The empirically derived law was first proposed by economist Aaron Director. The philosophy of is that, based on the size of its population ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25157142 |
Agricultural attaché An agricultural attaché is a diplomat who collects, analyzes, and acts on information on agriculture, agribusiness, food, and other related spheres in a foreign country or countries. Agricultural attachés may be directly employed by the sending country's agriculture ministry, or they may be employe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25168823 |
Agricultural attaché Often, agricultural officers of foreign embassies will form an informal group to compare notes and to collaborate on issues of mutual interest with regard to the host country. In Washington, D.C., for example, foreign embassies' agricultural attachés created the Agricultural Counselors Forum in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25168823 |
Agricultural attaché law, this dual line of authority is attested in Title 7, Chapter 87, Subchapter V of the U.S. Code and U.S. Department of Agriculture regulation DR-1051-001, in which the attachés are subordinated to the Secretary of Agriculture, and in Title 22, Chapter 52, Section 3927 of the U.S. Code, in which ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25168823 |
Agricultural attaché They are the contact persons at bilateral visits and events and cultivate the contacts in the Ministries in charge of agricultural and technical affairs of the relevant countries. In the course of the EU enlargement the responsibilities of the attachés in the new Member States have further develope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25168823 |
Agricultural attaché According to the ministry's website, one of the mandates of the ministry is to "undertake foreign-related agricultural affairs and organize related international economic and technical exchanges and cooperation." The European Union, a regional bloc, both sends and accredits agricultural attachés. T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25168823 |
Agricultural attaché According to the French Ministry of Food, Agriculture and Fisheries official website, Counselors or attachés have the agricultural business tasks: - Observe, monitor and analyze the positions of countries in which they are located as to national, EU and international agricultural, fisheries, trade ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25168823 |
Agricultural attaché The Federal Republic of Germany's Ministry of Nutrition, Agriculture and Consumer Protection has agricultural attachés in 18 diplomatic missions. The Hungarian Ministry of Agriculture and Rural Development (MARD) and the Ministry of Foreign Affairs (MFA) maintain agricultural attachés in nine count... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25168823 |
Agricultural attaché According to the ministry, the service's officers "are trained to assist Dutch agricultural small and medium-sized enterprises in their activities on foreign markets. The Agricultural Offices abroad also function as a liaison between Dutch agriculture, food, agri-business, fisheries, nature managem... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25168823 |
Agricultural attaché agricultural attachés are posted to the Foreign Agricultural Service website and are available to the general public. The Secretary of Agriculture determined that overseas officials of the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) should also be afforded the benefits of the Foreign Service... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25168823 |
Trigger agreement The term trigger agreement refers to a tactic utilized by the Service Employees International Union (SEIU) during their Justice for Janitors campaign. If employers agree not to interfere with the SEIU's organizing efforts, then the SEIU promises not to commence bargaining efforts until a majority of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25174821 |
Alfredo Saad-Filho is a Marxian economist. has degrees in Economics from the University of Brasília (Brazil) and the University of London (SOAS). He is currently Professor of Political Economy and International Development at King's College London. He was Professor of Political Economy at SOAS University of London betw... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25177271 |
Alfredo Saad-Filho He is also a participating editor of "Latin American Perspectives", a member of the advisory board of "Historical Materialism", and a member of the international editorial board of "Studies in Political Economy", among many other journals. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25177271 |
Wake Up to Money is an early morning financial radio programme on BBC Radio 5 Live. It is broadcast from 05:15 to 06:00 each weekday. The programme was established when Radio 5 Live began broadcasting in March 1994. It has been produced by the Business Programmes section of BBC Radio which produces for Radio 4 and 5 Li... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25177404 |
Wake Up to Money The programme is also carried by Radio Scotland, Radio Ulster, and Radio Foyle. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25177404 |
Shadowstats.com is a website that analyzes and offers alternatives to government economic statistics for the United States. Shadowstats primarily focuses on inflation, but also keeps track of the money supply, unemployment and GDP by utilizing methodologies abandoned by previous administrations from the Clinton era to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25178465 |
Shadowstats.com Although the old unemployment rate series', which include part-time workers looking for full-time work and unemployed who stopped looking over a year ago, is still published monthly by BLS, the U-3 series is generally considered more meaningful and is the headline rate picked up by most media outlets. W... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25178465 |
Shadowstats.com University of Maryland Professor Katharine Abraham, who previously headed the Bureau of Labor Statistics, the agency responsible for publishing official unemployment and inflation data, says of Williams' claims about data manipulation that "[t]he culture of the Bureau of Labor Statistics is so strong th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25178465 |
Shadowstats.com In addition, despite claims of much higher inflation than official reports suggest, and even potential hyperinflation in the future, Shadowstats has not changed its $175 per year subscription fee since at least 2006, leading some to question its validity. Responding to prior criticisms made by economist... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25178465 |
Uranium bubble of 2007 The uranium bubble of 2007 was a period of nearly exponential growth in the price of natural uranium, starting in 2005 and peaking at roughly $300/kg (or ~$135/lb) in mid-2007. This coincided with significant rises of stock price of uranium mining and exploration companies. After mid-2007, the pr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25181328 |
Private-collective model of innovation The term private-collective model of innovation was coined by Eric von Hippel and Georg von Krogh in their 2003 publication in "". This innovation model represents a combination of the private investment model and the collective-action innovation model. In the private investment m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25183022 |
Private-collective model of innovation Therefore, private-collective innovation occurs when the process-related rewards exceed the process-related costs. A laboratory study traced the initiation of private-collective innovation to the first decision to share knowledge in a two-person game with multiple equilibria. The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25183022 |
Private-collective model of innovation The theory of private collective innovation has recently been extended by a study on the exclusion rights for technology in the competition between private-collective and other innovators. The authors argue that the investment in orphan exclusion rights for technology serves as a ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25183022 |
Private-collective model of innovation These companies release previously proprietary software under FLOSS licenses, employ programmers to work on established FLOSS projects, and fund entrepreneurial firms to develop certain features. In this way, private entities invest into the creation of public goods. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25183022 |
Pre-owned asset tax In the United Kingdom, Her Majesty's Revenue and Customs acted against certain inheritance tax (IHT) avoidance schemes by imposing a standalone income tax charge. The tax was introduced in the Finance Act 2004 and came into effect from 6 April 2005. This has become known as pre-owned assets tax (POA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25201484 |
Giving Back to Africa is a 501(c)(3) Bloomington, Indiana based non-profit organization dedicated to the long-term mission of educating young people in the Democratic Republic of Congo. In partnership with local Congolese educational institutions and non-governmental organizations, its goal is to empower GBA beneficiar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25203942 |
VAT Information Exchange System The (VIES) is an electronic means of transmitting information relating to VAT registration (i.e., validity of VAT numbers) of companies registered in the European Union. EU law requires that, where goods or services are procured within the EU, VAT must be paid only in the member state wh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25218908 |
Martin Ravallion (born 19 March 1952), is an Australian economist. he was the inaugural Edmond D. Villani Professor of Economics at Georgetown University, and previously had been director of the research department at the World Bank. He holds a PhD in economics from the London School of Economics. Ravallion has researc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25234576 |
Martin Ravallion In 2011 he received the John Kenneth Galbraith Award from the American Agricultural and Applied Economics Association. He won the 2015 BBVA Foundation Frontiers of Knowledge Award in Development Cooperation for his groundbreaking work on defining the extreme poverty threshold with internationally appli... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25234576 |
Edgeworth Professor of Economics The at the University of Oxford is named in honour of Francis Ysidro Edgeworth, the Drummond Professor of Political Economy from 1891–1922. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25270608 |
Asset lock An asset lock is a legal clause that prevents the assets of a company being used for private gain rather than the stated purposes of the organisation. Asset locks may be incorporated into the formal structure of a "bencom" (a type of industrial and provident society), community interest company, or charitabl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25290751 |
Rahn curve The is a graph used to illustrate an economic theory, proposed in 1996 by American economist Richard W. Rahn, which indicates that there is a level of government spending that maximises economic growth. The theory is used by classical liberals to argue for a decrease in overall government spending and taxati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25359331 |
Measuring economic worth over time The measurement of economic worth over time is the problem of relating past prices, costs, values and proportions of social production to current ones. For a number of reasons, relating any past indicator to a current indicator of worth is theoretically and practically difficult for e... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25365210 |
Measuring economic worth over time One chief problem is the competition between different fundamental conceptions of the division of social product into measurable or theorisable concepts. Marxist and political economic value, neoclassical marginalist, and other ideas regarding proportion of social product not measured... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25365210 |
Measuring economic worth over time Both contemporary and historical wage price series are inherently controversial, as they speak to the standard of living of working-class people. Contemporary wage price series are the result of the normal operation of government economic statistics units, and are often produced as pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25365210 |
Measuring economic worth over time The assumption of universal wage labour and a retail goods market, the assumption of money rents, the inability to compute non-market earnings such as obligatory benefits received from masters or the right to squat, all impact on the quality and representative nature of Officer's sour... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25365210 |
Bank payroll tax The bank payroll tax was a one-off tax that was introduced in the United Kingdom in 2010. The tax comprised a rate of 50% applied to bank bonuses exceeding £25,000 and charged to the employing company. The tax was introduced via legislation in the Finance Act 2010 section 2 and Schedule 1. The tax was ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25374705 |
Satellite Image Time Series A (SITS) is a set of satellite images taken from the same scene at different times. A SITS makes use of different satellite sources to obtain a larger data series with short time interval between two images. In this case, it is fundamental to observe the spatial resolution and registration c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25395684 |
Birmingham School (economics) The Birmingham School was a school of economic thought that emerged in Birmingham, England during the post-Napoleonic depression that affected England following the end of the Napoleonic wars in 1815. Arguing an underconsumptionist theory – attributing the depression to the fall in demand ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25407012 |
Arrow security An is an instrument with a fixed payout of one unit in a specified state and no payout in other states. It is a type of hypothetical asset used in the Arrow market structure model. In contrast to the Arrow-Debreu market structure model, an Arrow market is a market in which the individual agents engage in... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25412300 |
Limited dependent variable A limited dependent variable is a variable whose range of possible values is "restricted in some important way." In econometrics, the term is often used when estimation of the relationship between the "limited" dependent variable of interest and other variables requires methods that take this... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25436465 |
Dry-hole clause A dry-hole clause is a provision in an oil or Natural gas lease specifying what a lessee must do to maintain the lease for the remainder of a primary term after drilling a "dry hole." Usually, the lessee will just have to pay delay rentals. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25445707 |
Digital nomad Digital nomads are a type of people who use telecommunications technologies to earn a living and, more generally, conduct their life in a nomadic manner. Such workers often work remotely from foreign countries, coffee shops, public libraries, co-working spaces, or recreational vehicles. This is often acco... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25451895 |
Digital nomad It is unknown if the phrase was coined in this book or if they took a term that had already existed. Digital nomads can use wireless Internet, smartphones, Voice over IP, and/or cloud-based applications to work remotely where they live or travel. Digital nomads may use co-working spaces, cafes, house sitt... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25451895 |
Digital nomad Skype is also a common tool for people to use to communicate through voice, text, and video chat across long distances. YouTube has also been used by digital nomads as a means by which to earn revenue without having to have a central workplace or living space. An important step in being a digital nomad is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25451895 |
Digital nomad The digital nomad lifestyle is rapidly growing in popularity since 2014, when websites ranking cities by cost of living, weather and internet speed to help nomads choose where to live and international conferences for digital nomads like DNX sprung up. Since then the movement has coincided with the rise o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25451895 |
Digital nomad For example, the town of Ubud in Bali became popular among digital nomads after the installation of fiber-optic communication for Internet access. Another popular choice among digital nomads is Cyprus. A European state with low tax, a quick company set up process and beautiful scenery, the island of Cypru... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25451895 |
Digital nomad These include political unrest in their home countries, a high cost of living where they live, the diminishing of long-term employment, and more. Many digital nomads tend to come from more developed nations with passports allowing a greater degree of freedom of travel. As a result, many tend to travel on ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25451895 |
Digital nomad Some digital nomads have used Germany's residence permit for the purpose of freelance or self-employment to legalize their stay, but successful applicants must have a tangible connection and reason to stay in Germany. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25451895 |
Economics of gambling As a result of gambling, some are driven to extreme lengths to cover debt. Severely addicted gamblers spend most of their energy following their addiction. They cost companies loss of productivity and profit. Gamblers themselves may suffer from depression and bankruptcy. Some may go into severe de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25459335 |
Economics of gambling Entertainment is interlinked with gambling as well, for instance, the many shows available in casinos in Las Vegas. Hotel services and chauffeurs are also in higher demand because of gambling. Gambling increases aggregate demand for goods and services in the economy. In 1996, Americans spent one i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25459335 |
Applied Economic Perspectives and Policy (AEPP) is a peer-reviewed journal of applied economics and policy. Published four times per year, it is the one of two journals published by the Agricultural & Applied Economics Association (AAEA), along with the "American Journal of Agricultural Economics" ("AJAE"). Today is th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25467882 |
Industry classification or industry taxonomy is a type of economic taxonomy that organizes companies into industrial groupings based on similar production processes, similar products, or similar behavior in financial markets. Many are used by national and international statistical agencies to summarize economic conditi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25493759 |
Industry classification Industries can also be identified by product, such as: construction industry, chemical industry, petroleum industry, automotive industry, electronic industry, power engineering and power manufacturing (such as gas or wind turbines), meatpacking industry, hospitality industry, food industry, fish... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25493759 |
Money as Debt is a 2006 animated documentary film by Canadian artist and filmmaker Paul Grignon about the monetary systems practised through modern banking. The film presents Grignon's view of the process of money creation by banks and its historical background, and warns of his belief in its subsequent unsustainabilit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25515016 |
Money as Debt The film finishes by identifying some alternatives to modern banking, such as the nationalization of banks and payment of dividends to the public, establishing local exchange trading systems, or government printing of money. An article in "Anthropology Today" called the film "a hit in activist circles", b... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=25515016 |
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