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Howl and Other Poems When do I get the manuscript?" Originally, Ginsberg and Ferlinghetti assumed "Howl" would be long enough to take up the entire book, but they later decided to add some similar poems Ginsberg had completed around that time. Though "Howl" was certainly Ginsberg's most famous poem, the collection incl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10234166 |
Howl and Other Poems " "A Supermarket in California" is a short poem about a dreamlike encounter with Walt Whitman, one of Ginsberg's biggest idols. The image of Whitman is contrasted with mundane images of a supermarket, food often being used for sexual puns. He references Federico García Lorca whose "Ode to Walt Whit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10234166 |
Howl and Other Poems The structure of this poem relates to "Howl" both in its use of the long line and its repetition of the "eyeball kick" (paratactical juxtapositions) at the end. Ginsberg says in relating his thought process after the experiments of "Howl," "What about a poem with rhythmic buildup power equal to "Ho... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10234166 |
Howl and Other Poems Ginsberg says this of his mind frame when composing "Transcription of Organ Music", in reference to developing his style after his experiments with "Howl": "What if I just simply wrote, in long units and broken short lines, spontaneously noting prosaic realities mixed with emotional upsurges, solit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10234166 |
Howl and Other Poems David Bergman, in "Camp Grounds" describes Ginsberg as a poet who, while not addressing the need to support the homosexual community directly, used a "Comically carnivalesque" tone to paint a picture of the situation facing the homosexual in 20th-Century society. As the poet in "Supermarket in Cali... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10234166 |
Howl and Other Poems To Trilling, the audience and Ginsberg shared a relationship that had little to do with literature, and she writes that the "Shoddiness" of the poems attested to the fact that they were created to relate to cynical popular culture rather than provide an artistic statement. Along with others in the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10234166 |
Muqaddimah The Muqaddimah, also known as the of Ibn Khaldun () or Ibn Khaldun's Prolegomena (), is a book written by the Arab historian Ibn Khaldun in 1377 which records an early view of universal history. Some modern thinkers view it as the first work dealing with the social sciences of sociology, demography, and cult... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10240635 |
Muqaddimah Sati' al-Husri suggested that Ibn Khaldun's "Muqaddimah" is essentially a sociological work, sketching over its six books a general sociology; a sociology of politics; a sociology of urban life; a sociology of economics; and a sociology of knowledge. Ibn Khaldun often criticized "idle superstition and uncrit... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10240635 |
Muqaddimah As the new rulers establish themselves at the center of their empire, they become increasingly lax and more concerned with maintaining their lifestyles. Thus, a new dynasty can emerge at the periphery of their control and effect a change in leadership, beginning the cycle anew. Ibn Khaldun's model is an inst... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10240635 |
Muqaddimah He argued that even if earning "results from something other than a craft, the value of the resulting profit and acquired (capital) must (also) include the value of the labor by which it was obtained. Without labor, it would not have been acquired." His theory of ʿasabiyyah has often been compared to modern ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10240635 |
Muqaddimah Laffer does not claim to have invented the concept himself, noting that the idea was present in the work of Ibn Khaldun and, more recently, John Maynard Keynes. The "Muqaddimah" is also held to be a foundational work for the schools of historiography, cultural history, and the philosophy of history. The "Muq... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10240635 |
Muqaddimah Dawood writes on the "Muqaddimah": The "Muqaddimah" emphasized the role of systemic bias in affecting the standard of evidence. Khaldun was quite concerned with the effect of raising the standard of evidence when confronted with uncomfortable claims, and relaxing it when given claims that seemed reasonable o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10240635 |
Muqaddimah As an example, Ibn Khaldun notes that Al-Masudi and other historians reported that Moses counted the Israelite army as 600,000 or more soldiers. Ibn Khaldun criticizes Al-Masudi for failing to take into account certain logistics, questioning whether Egypt and Syria could have possibly held such a large numbe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10240635 |
Muqaddimah The "Muqaddimah" states that if the Israelites really did have such a large army, the extent of their empire would have been far larger, as "the size of administrative units and provinces under a particular dynasty is in direct proportion to the size of its militia and the groups that support the dynasty". T... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10240635 |
Muqaddimah Ibn Khaldun, being a follower of the Ash'ari school, criticizes the views of the Mu'tazili school, and bases his criticisms on the views of Abu al-Hasan al-Ash'ari, whom he describes as "the mediator between different approaches in the kalam". Ibn Khaldun also covers the historical development of Islamic log... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10240635 |
Muqaddimah " In regards to jurisprudence, he acknowledged the inevitability of change in all aspects of a community, and wrote: Ibn Khaldun further described Fiqh jurisprudence as "knowledge of the rules of God which concern the actions of persons who own themselves bound to obey the law respecting what is required ("w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10240635 |
Muqaddimah The "Muqaddimah" discusses the history of alchemy, the views of alchemists such as Jabir ibn Hayyan, and the theories of the transmutation of metals and elixir of life. One chapter of the book contains a systematic refutation of alchemy on social, scientific, philosophical and religious grounds. He begins hi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10240635 |
Muqaddimah " In the "Muqaddimah"s introductory remarks, Ibn Khaldun agrees with the classical republicanism of the Aristotelian proposition that man is political by nature, and that man's interdependence creates the need for the political community. Yet he argues that men and tribes need to defend themselves from poten... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10240635 |
Muqaddimah Ibn Khaldun writes that civilizations have lifespans like individuals, and that every state will eventually fall because sedentary luxuries distract them, and eventually government begins to overtax citizens and begin injustice against property rights, and "injustice ruins civilization". Eventually after one... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10240635 |
Muqaddimah About Arab Bedouins, he wrote: On the Arab conquests of the 7th century: Ibn Khaldun devotes a substantial number of pages to the conquests of North Africa and the conflicts between the region's Berber inhabitants and the new Arab arrivals. According to the scholar Abdelmajid Hannoum, Ibn Khaldun's descripti... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10240635 |
Muqaddimah The Persian Iraq mentioned by Ibn Khaldun is the historic Iraq-e-Ajam (Persian Iraq) which constitutes the triangle of Isfahan, Shiraz and Hamadan. Ibn Khaldun, however, notes that by his time, the study of science in Persian culture had declined and was eventually surpassed by the culture of Egypt of the Ma... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10240635 |
Muqaddimah Many modern historians question the traditional Arab account of the invasion of Ghana and instead state that the supposed invasion was likely more a combination of Almoravid pressure and internal strife. The "Muqaddimah" also describes some cultures that inhabit lands south of the Sahel, sometimes in raciall... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10240635 |
Journal of Political Economy The is a monthly peer-reviewed academic journal published by the University of Chicago Press. Established by James Laurence Laughlin in 1892, it covers both theoretical and empirical economics. In the past, the journal published quarterly from its introduction through 1905, ten issues per v... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10254563 |
Internally rifled boiler tubes are used to evaporate water into steam inside boilers of thermal power plants. Because of their internally rifled shape, they are more efficient. The boiling crisis takes place later, thus allowing for greater heat transfer between the pipe and the fluid inside the pipe. Costs of this typ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10256071 |
Top-coded In econometrics and statistics, a top-coded data observation is one for which data points whose values are above an upper bound are censored. Survey data are often topcoded before release to the public to preserve the anonymity of respondents. For example, if a survey answer reported a respondent with self-id... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10263082 |
USA Tax The Act (), short for "Unlimited Savings Allowance", was a bill in the United States Congress for changing tax laws to replace the federal income taxes with a progressive consumption tax on households and a value-added tax on businesses . Lawrence Lokken credits Irving Fisher with the insight that consumption c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10266993 |
Power theory of economics Developed by Yasuma Takada in a series of lectures at Kyoto University, the power theory of economics is mostly based on a critique of both mainstream economics as well as heterodox economics theories of unemployment, most notably Keynsian economics and Marxian economics. The theory accommodat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10272463 |
MSCI KLD 400 Social Index The was launched in 1990 and is designed to help socially conscious investors weigh social and environmental factors in their investment choices. It was founded by KLD's Amy Domini as the Domini 400 Social Index. The is designed to provide exposure to the common stocks of companies that KLD de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10272644 |
Relationship-based pricing Relationship-Based Pricing (RBP), also known as Relationship based Pricing is a concept in the banking industry. RBP is a pricing and billing framework where pricing is determined based on a customer's overall purchases and circumstances, rather than being delivered on a product-by-product ba... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10307857 |
Person specification A person specification describes the personal attributes desired in a potential employee. It is similar to a job description, but more specific. These attributes include qualifications, skills, experience, and knowledge, and sometimes personal attributes which a candidate needs to possess in order ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10315867 |
Fill or kill A fill or kill (FOK) order is "an order to buy or sell a stock that must be executed immediately"—a few seconds, customarily—in its entirety; otherwise, the entire order is cancelled; no partial fulfillments are allowed. Characterized as "extreme orders", FOK orders are "most commonly used when your order ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10319308 |
Stabilization fund A stabilization fund is a mechanism set up by a government or central bank to insulate the domestic economy from large influxes of revenue, as from commodities such as oil. A primary motivation is maintaining a steady level of government revenue in the face of major commodity price fluctuations (henc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10329523 |
Thoughts and Details on Scarcity Thoughts and Details on Scarcity, Originally Presented to the Right Hon. William Pitt, in the month of November, 1795 is a memorandum written by the Whig MP Edmund Burke to the Prime Minister of Great Britain William Pitt the Younger. It was published posthumously in 1800, along with an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10336342 |
Thoughts and Details on Scarcity Samuel Whitbread, a parliamentary ally of Burke's rival Charles James Fox, introduced a Bill on 9 December 1795 to enable magistrates to set minimum wages for agricultural labourers. Burke's letter to Young likely grew out of his opposition to this Bill. This tract was often praised by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10336342 |
Downsizer is a virtual community, run on a not-for-profit basis, which describes itself as "a resource for people who want to live more sustainably". Its website includes articles on sustainable living and a popular forum with over 4,500 registered members. The site was set up in October 2004 by the founder members. It... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10368520 |
Downsizer " A more negative stance was taken by Steve Lowe and Alan McArthur, authors of "Is It Just Me Or Is Everything Shit?" (2005). In an article in "The Sunday Times" to promote their book, they presented the interest of "burnt-out stockbrokers" in the advice provided by as an instance of the "mediocrity" of conte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10368520 |
The Eyes of the Heart The Eyes of the Heart: Seeking a Path for the Poor in the Age of Globalization is a book written by Jean-Bertrand Aristide about the effects of globalization on Haiti. Aristide takes the position that globalization is not a positive factor in the world, and he cites the World Bank and the Internat... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10372677 |
International dollar The international dollar (int'l dollar or intl dollar, symbols Int'l$., Intl$., Int$), also known as Geary–Khamis dollar (symbols G-K$ or GK$), is a hypothetical unit of currency that has the same purchasing power parity that the U.S. dollar had in the United States at a given point in time. It is ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10375913 |
International dollar According to IMF, below is the exchange rate of to local currency of respective countries in 2018: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10375913 |
Comparison between U.S. states and countries by GDP (PPP) This is a comparison between U.S. states and countries by Gross Domestic Product (PPP). Many of the states of the United States have large Gross Domestic Product (called gross state product) which would rank highly on a list of countries world GDP. All data is f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10382734 |
AP Economics Advanced Placement Economics (also known as AP Economics) refers to two College Board Advanced Placement Program courses and exams addressing various aspects of the field of economics: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10382749 |
Rebound effect (conservation) In conservation and energy economics, the rebound effect (or take-back effect) is the reduction in expected gains from new technologies that increase the efficiency of resource use, because of behavioral or other systemic responses. These responses usually tend to offset the beneficial eff... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10386571 |
Rebound effect (conservation) The rebound effect was first described by William Stanley Jevons in his 1865 book "The Coal Question", where he observed that the invention in Britain of a more efficient steam engine meant that the use of coal became economically viable for many new uses. This ultimately led to increased ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10386571 |
Rebound effect (conservation) Other examples might include the growth in garden lighting after the introduction of energy-saving Light Emitting Diodes or the increasing size of houses driven partly by higher fuel efficiency in home heating technologies. If the rebound effect is larger than 100%, all gains from the incr... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10386571 |
Rebound effect (conservation) " In 1992, economist Harry Saunders coined the term "Khazzoom-Brookes postulate" to describe the idea that energy efficiency gains paradoxically result in increases in energy use (the modern day equivalent of the Jevons paradox). He modeled energy efficiency gains using a variety of neocla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10386571 |
Rebound effect (conservation) However, if the first position more accurately reflects economic reality, current efforts to invent fuel-efficient technologies may not much reduce energy use, and may in fact paradoxically increase oil and coal consumption, and greenhouse gas emissions, over the long run. The full rebound... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10386571 |
Rebound effect (conservation) An economical technology change that enables each unit of washing to be produced with less electricity results in a reduction of the price per unit of washing. This shifts the household budget line rightwards. The result is a substitution effect because of the decreased relative price, but... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10386571 |
Rebound effect (conservation) Evaluation and econometric methods are the two approaches generally employed in estimating the size of this effect. Evaluation methods rely on quasi-experimental studies and measure the before and after changes to energy consumption from the implementation of energy efficient technology, w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10386571 |
Rebound effect (conservation) Although a persuasive view has prevailed that indirect effects with respect to energy and greenhouse emissions should be very small due to energy directly comprising only a small component of household expenditure, this view is gradually being eroded. Many recent studies based on life-cycl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10386571 |
Rebound effect (conservation) An improvement in energy efficiency has the same effect as lower fuel prices, and leads to faster economic growth. Economists generally believe that especially for the case of energy use, more efficient technologies will lead to increased use, because of this growth effect. To model the sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10386571 |
Rebound effect (conservation) But low-income households are more price sensitive, and have made thermal sacrifices due to the cost of heating. In this case, a high direct rebound is likely. This analogy can be extended to most household energy consumption. The size of the rebound effect is likely to be higher in develo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10386571 |
Rebound effect (conservation) Research articles often examine increasingly convenient and more rapid modes of transportation to determine the rebound effect in energy demand. Because time cost forms a major part of the total cost of commuter transport, rapid modes will reduce real costs, but will also encourage longer ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10386571 |
Rebound effect (conservation) Policies can also directly address projected yearly consumption of energy rather than device efficiency, especially for systems where the use can be accurately projected, such as street lighting. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10386571 |
Marian Bowley (1911–2002) was an economist and historian of economic thought. She was the daughter of the economist and statistician Arthur Bowley. After her BSc and PhD (1936) at the London School of Economics she was first appointed to a lectureship at the Dundee School of Economics in 1938. After government service ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10386577 |
Precarious work is a term that critics use to describe non-standard or temporary employment that may be poorly paid, insecure, unprotected, and unable to support a household. From this perspective, globalization, the shift from the manufacturing sector to the service sector, and the spread of information technology hav... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10387939 |
Precarious work It did not typically describe women in the same time period, who would only work temporarily until they got married and had children, at which time they would withdraw from the workforce. While many different kinds of part-time or limited-term jobs can be temporary, critics use the term "precarious" str... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10387939 |
Baker Plan (debt relief) The Baker Plan was launched in October 1985 at the International Monetary Fund/World Bank meeting in Seoul, by James Baker, United States Secretary of the Treasury, as a way to combat the international debt crisis. It was inspired by the idea that China's trade surplus could be used to relieve ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10392867 |
Vicarious problem-solving is a rational actor approach developed by Thomas Schelling. In economic reasoning it is an educated common sense where one informally models the situation assuming agents ‘operate in a purposeful manner, aware of their values and alert to their opportunities’. Using this approach, the research... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10408166 |
Linux Technology Center The IBM (LTC) is an organization focused on development for the Linux kernel and related open-source software projects. In 1999, IBM created the LTC to combine its software developers interested in Linux and other open-source software into a single organization. Much of the LTC's early effort wa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10499839 |
Linux Technology Center Developers in the LTC contribute to various open-source projects such as: LTC is a worldwide team with main locations in Australia, Brazil, China, Germany, India, Israel, and the United States. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10499839 |
Stochastic game In game theory, a stochastic game, introduced by Lloyd Shapley in the early 1950s, is a dynamic game with probabilistic transitions played by one or more players. The game is played in a sequence of stages. At the beginning of each stage the game is in some state. The players select actions and each pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10500944 |
Stochastic game In many cases, there exists an equilibrium value of this probability, but optimal strategies for both players may not exist. We introduce basic concepts and algorithmic questions studied in this area, and we mention some long-standing open problems. Then, we mention selected recent results. The ingredie... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10500944 |
Stochastic game The discounted game formula_34 with discount factor formula_35 (formula_36) is the game where the payoff to player formula_18 is formula_38. The formula_39-stage game is the game where the payoff to player formula_18 is formula_41. The value formula_42, respectively formula_43, of a two-person zero-sum ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10500944 |
Stochastic game Jean-François Mertens and Abraham Neyman (1981) proved that every two-person zero-sum stochastic game with finitely many states and actions has a uniform value. If there is a finite number of players and the action sets and the set of states are finite, then a stochastic game with a finite number of sta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10500944 |
Stochastic game The non-zero-sum stochastic game formula_51 has a limiting-average equilibrium payoff formula_55 if for every formula_57 there is a strategy profile formula_61 such that for every unilateral deviation by a player formula_18, the expectation of the limit inferior of the averages of the stage payoffs with... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10500944 |
Stochastic game Stochastic games have applications in economics, evolutionary biology and computer networks. They are generalizations of repeated games which correspond to the special case where there is only one state. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10500944 |
James Bonar (civil servant) James Bonar (27 September 1852 – 18 January 1941) was a Scottish civil servant, political economist and historian of economic thought. He was born in Perth but brought up, from the age of four, in Glasgow where his father was a Church of Scotland Minister. This clerical background extends to... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10500985 |
James Bonar (civil servant) ) The Biographical Dictionary of British Economists' vol.1, Theommes Continuum, 2004,pp. 123–4. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10500985 |
Fiduciary trust A fiduciary trust is a fiduciary relationship in which a trustee holds the title to assets for the beneficiary. The trust's creator is called the grantor. One usage of the term "fiduciary trust" is to distinguish the word "trust" from usage in general contexts where it does not imply a trustee-beneficia... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10528566 |
Trade-off theory of capital structure The trade-off theory of capital structure is the idea that a company chooses how much debt finance and how much equity finance to use by balancing the costs and benefits. The classical version of the hypothesis goes back to Kraus and Litzenberger who considered a balance between th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10538024 |
Trade-off theory of capital structure Taxes are large and they are sure, while bankruptcy is rare and, according to Miller, it has low dead-weight costs. Accordingly, he suggested that if the trade-off theory were true, then firms ought to have much higher debt levels than we observe in reality. Myers was a particularl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10538024 |
Skill (labor) Skill is a measure of the amount of worker's expertise, specialization, wages, and supervisory capacity. Skilled workers are generally more trained, higher paid, and have more responsibilities than unskilled workers. Skilled workers have long had historical import ("see" Division of labor) as masons, carp... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10538169 |
Skill (labor) The "EFA Global Monitoring Report 2012" proposes a useful approach to different types of skills in relation to the world of work. It identifies three main types of skills that all young people need – foundation, transferable, and technical and vocational skills – and the contexts in which they may be acqu... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10538169 |
Skill (labor) Technical and vocational skills can be acquired through work placement programs linked to secondary schooling and formal technical and vocational education, or through work-based training, including traditional apprenticeships and agricultural cooperatives. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10538169 |
Market timing hypothesis The market timing hypothesis is a theory of how firms and corporations in the economy decide whether to finance their investment with equity or with debt instruments. It is one of many such corporate finance theories, and is often contrasted with the pecking order theory and the trade-off theor... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10538409 |
Market timing hypothesis Baker and Wurgler themselves show that an index of financing that reflects how much of the financing was done during hot equity periods and how much during hot debt periods is a good indicator of firm leverage over long periods subsequently. Alti studied issuance events. He found that the effec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10538409 |
Space-based economy is economic activity in outer space, including asteroid mining, space manufacturing, space trade, construction performed in space such as the building of space stations, space burial, and space advertising. Space-based industrial efforts are presently in their infancy. Most such concepts would requi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10541820 |
100,000,000 Guinea Pigs 100,000,000 Guinea Pigs: Dangers in Everyday Foods, Drugs, and Cosmetics is a book written by Arthur Kallet and F.J. Schlink first released in 1933 by the Vanguard Press and manufactured in the United States of America. Its central argument propounds that the American population is being used as... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10555897 |
100,000,000 Guinea Pigs If the poison is such that it acts slowly and insidiously, perhaps over a long period of years (and several such will be considered in later chapters), then we poor consumers must be test animals all our lives; and when, in the end, the experiment kills us a year or ten years sooner than otherwi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10555897 |
100,000,000 Guinea Pigs Extensive reform and overhaul in government regulation and inspection of the food and drug industry is needed in order to adequately protect consumers from corporations and manufacturers who do not place the health of the consumer before profit. Examples cited include beauty products, which in t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10555897 |
100,000,000 Guinea Pigs In the final analysis, the authors encourage consumers to be more active and questioning in their purchasing habits. Consumers should be vigilant in finding out more information about products and ingredients, and boycotting producers and their products that contain dangerous ingredients. They a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10555897 |
100,000,000 Guinea Pigs The book was also the subject of strong opposition from several quarters—not just vested interests such as the drug companies, but also from the medical fraternity. The book was frequently criticized for being sensational propaganda, and many at the time questioned the credentials of the authors... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10555897 |
100,000,000 Guinea Pigs … It is 1933 all over again—multiplied by logarithms. The difference is only a matter of form." | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10555897 |
Tax assessment Tax assessment, or assessment, is the job of determining the value, and sometimes determining the use, of property, usually to calculate a property tax. This is usually done by an office called the assessor or tax assessor. Governments need to collect taxes in order to function. Federal, state and local ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10556434 |
Tax assessment In local government in the United States, an assessor, also called a tax assessor, is an appointed or elected official charged with determining the value of each taxable property in a county, municipality, or township; this information is then used by the local governments to determine the necessary rate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10556434 |
Differential accumulation is an approach for analysing capitalist development and crisis, tying together mergers and acquisitions, stagflation and globalization as integral facets of accumulation. The concept has been developed by Jonathan Nitzan and Shimshon Bichler. The concept of differential accumulation emphasizes... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10560343 |
Differential accumulation The power of the absentee owner is the power to control part of the social process, and that becomes meaningful primarily against the power of other owners. A firm can raise its profit through "breadth" by adding more employees to the organization. Conversely the firm can pursue "depth" by gen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10560343 |
Differential accumulation (4) Periodic lulls in amalgamation tend to be compensated for by stagflation, which appears as a crisis at the societal level, but which contributes significantly to differential accumulation at the disaggregate level. An end to the present worldwide merger boom could therefore trigger global ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10560343 |
Differential accumulation theory shares some similarities with the "supply shock" theory where there are sudden price changes due to a reduction in supply. One effect of cumulative mergers and acquisitions is that can result in concentrating the power to limit supply among fewer entities. The supply shock theory in pol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10560343 |
Differential accumulation If prices begin to fall, they argue, firms will be unable to service their debt, which creates a risk of debt deflation, chain bankruptcies, and the collapse of accumulation. "As the Great Depression unfolded falling nominal GDP caused the debt-to-GDP to soar to over 270%. a comparable drop no... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10560343 |
Differential accumulation Instead of focusing on the start of the US financial crisis, Nitzan and Bichler focus on bear markets, the periods during which stocks (as measured in constant-dollars) were in a downward trend or where each successive peak is lower than the previous one. By their reckoning a protracted Bear m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10560343 |
Permit service A permit service is a company that specializes in obtaining transportation permits. The permits that are sold would be Trip (in lieu of Registration), and Fuel (in lieu of IFTA), and oversize. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10563400 |
Polizeiwissenschaft (German for "Police science", though "Polizei" may in this case be better translated as "Public Policy" or "Politics" in a broad sense) was a discipline born in the first third of the 18th century which lasted until the middle of the 19th century. Considered as the science of the internal order of t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10581710 |
Polizeiwissenschaft The term has recently been used in a sense more closely related to contemporary police activities, used both as a comprehensive term as a synonym of "police sciences" (including jurisprudence, criminology, sociology, psychology, political science, forensics, etc.). | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10581710 |
Theory of intervening opportunities attempts to describe the likelihood of migration. Its hypothesis is that this likelihood is influenced most by the opportunities to settle at the destination, less by distance or population pressure at the starting point. Stouffer's law of intervening opportunities states, ""The numb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10595110 |
SgurrEnergy is an engineering consultancy specialising in renewable energy projects. The company is based in Glasgow, Scotland, and has offices in Beijing, China; Pune, India; Paris, France; Wexford, Ireland; Portland, Maine; Vancouver, British Columbia; and Mexico City, Mexico as of January 2016. was established in 20... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10597358 |
Bankruptcy costs of debt Within the theory of corporate finance, bankruptcy costs of debt are the increased costs of financing with debt instead of equity that result from a higher probability of bankruptcy. The fact that bankruptcy is generally a costly process in itself and not only a transfer of ownership implies th... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10606009 |
Bankruptcy costs of debt Additionally there can be other payments required, like Lawyer's fee, Conversion fee, Credit counselling and debtor education fee. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10606009 |
Bradley-Burns uniform local tax law The Bradley-Burns uniform local tax law, in California, allows a percentage to be added to a statewide sales tax, with the proceeds applied to benefit counties and cities of that state. Generally the revenue obtained from the uniform local tax funds various county and city needs such... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10621031 |
Structurer In finance, a structurer is a person who designs structured products and determines how the pay rules will distribute cash flows for a deal. Structurers will also typically build computer models to mimic the pay rules in order to see how collateral payments affect the bond payments. All the above should be d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=10627468 |
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