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The Myth of the Rational Voter Yet, interest is in fact two things: the creditor delaying his own consumption for compensation (known as liquidity preference) and compensation for the risk of borrower defaults. The second is where corporations, even small-scale suppliers, are seen as greedy monopolists that prey on the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13081323 |
The Myth of the Rational Voter For Americans, trading with Japan and Mexico is more controversial than trading with Canada and England, which are more linguistically and ethnically similar to the United States. Caplan refers to the make-work bias as a "tendency to underestimate the economic benefits from conserving lab... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13081323 |
The Myth of the Rational Voter Caplan alleges that there is often little or no evidence to back up such perceptions of imminent apocalypse. Among challengers Caplan cites is Julian Lincoln Simon and his book, "The Ultimate Resource," which argues society continues to progress despite claims of environmental degradation... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13081323 |
The Myth of the Rational Voter Self-serving bias (economists are rich and so they believe whatever benefits them) and ideological assumptions (economists are a bunch of right-wing ideologues) are two challenges the author addresses. Caplan writes: "Both the self-serving bias and the ideological bias are, "in principle"... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13081323 |
The Myth of the Rational Voter Caplan believes that that something else is the biases he enumerated earlier. The data tends to support Caplan's argument, with most (but not all) of the enlightened public closer to economists than to the public. In standard neoclassical economics, people are assumed to be rational; the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13081323 |
The Myth of the Rational Voter Caplan argues that, "Since delusional political beliefs are free, the voter consumes until he reaches his 'satiation point,' believing whatever makes him feel best. When a person puts on his voting hat, he does not have to give up practical efficacy in exchange for self-image "because he ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13081323 |
The Myth of the Rational Voter The book was reviewed in the popular press, including in "The Wall Street Journal", "The New York Times", and the "New Yorker". It was also briefly mentioned in "Time Magazine". Nicholas Kristof wrote in the New York Times that it was the "best political book of this year." The book recei... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13081323 |
Permanent employment Permanent employees work for an employer and are paid directly by that employer. Permanent employees do not have a predetermined end date to employment. In addition to their wages, they often receive benefits like subsidized health care, paid vacations, holidays, sick time, or contributions to a 40... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13084878 |
Permanent employment " Japan’s lifetime employment originated in large companies around 1910 but became widespread during the economic growth period following World War II. Before the war period, Japanese companies owed more its fund on direct financing. However, as the government started to take control of Zaibatsu, J... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13084878 |
Registered representative (securities) A registered representative, also called a general securities representative, a stockbroker, or an account executive, is an individual who is licensed to sell securities and has the legal power of an agent in the United States. Registered representatives usually work for broker/de... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13127646 |
Stephen Kanitz Stephen Charles Kanitz (born in São Paulo) is a Brazilian business consultant, lecturer, professor and writer. He holds a D.Sc. in Accounting from University of São Paulo, Master's degree in Business Administration from Harvard Business School and bachelor's degree in Accounting from the University of Sã... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13145536 |
Stephen Kanitz His most recent book "Família acima de tudo" was launched in Brazil on December 2009 () He is a coauthor of Contabilidade Introdutória, which has sold 5 million copies, and is the leading text book in Accounting. Other Books: Controladoria O Parecer do Auditor Os 50 Melhores Artigos Ponto de Vista, with ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13145536 |
Shadow stock is a stock of an already-listed company which has the same or similar industry as a new-listed company. Since the stock price of new-listed companies mostly boosts up after being listed in a stock market, shadow stocks may also boost up to cope with the trend. However, as the increase in shadow stock price... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13179968 |
Floor broker A floor broker is an independent member of an exchange who can act as a broker for other members who become overloaded with orders, as an agent on the floor of the exchange. The floor broker receives an order via Teletype machine from his firm's trading department and then proceeds to the appropriate tradi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13198129 |
Brattle Prize The is an annual prize given to authors with the best corporate finance research papers published in the "Journal of Finance". Each year the associate editors of the Journal of Finance award five papers for excellence. The two best finance papers in the subfield of corporate finance and the three best oth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13205734 |
Brattle Prize Table of winning papers Table of Distinguished Papers | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13205734 |
Smith Breeden Prize The (renamed Amundi Pioneer in 2017) is an annual prize given to authors with the best finance research papers published in the "Journal of Finance" in any area other than corporate finance. Each year the associate editors of the Journal of Finance award five papers for excellence. The two best fina... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13207515 |
Smith Breeden Prize In 2006, there were 1239 submissions (1037 new manuscripts), 86 articles published, and 8 nominees from which 1 first place winning paper and two second place distinguished papers were chosen. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13207515 |
Jensen Prize The is an annual prize given to authors with the best corporate finance and organizations research papers published in the "Journal of Financial Economics". The award is named after Michael Jensen, a co-founding advisory editor of the journal. Each year personal and student subscribers to the "Journal of F... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13217549 |
Fama-DFA Prize The is an annual prize given to authors with the best capital markets and asset pricing research papers published in the "Journal of Financial Economics". The award is named after Eugene Fama who is a co-founding advisory editor of the journal, a financial economist, a 2013 Nobel laureate in Economics, a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13218231 |
Fama-DFA Prize Currently the first prize in each category is $5,000 and the second prize is $2,500. The following table is a complete list of past first and second place winners of the Fama-DFA Prize: | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13218231 |
The Wealth of Networks The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production Transforms Markets and Freedom is a book by Harvard Law School professor Yochai Benkler published by Yale University Press on April 3, 2006. A PDF of the book is downloadable under a Creative Commons Noncommercial Sharealike license. Benkler has said ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13220811 |
The Wealth of Networks With the emergence of computers, networks, and increasingly affordable media production outlets, Benkler introduces the concept of the NIE, which sees media access as a form of power, and recognizes decentralized individual actions in said media as a result of the removal of physical and economic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13220811 |
The Wealth of Networks To close this section, Benkler argues that the networked environment makes possible a new modality of organizing production: that of commons-based peer production. He discusses the parameters of the commons and gives the example of FLOSS Free/Libre/Open/Source/Software. He discusses shared acts o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13220811 |
The Wealth of Networks He examines the historical emergence of the mass media, looking at the relationship between print and radio and ever-broadening, industrial broadcast models of production which became supported by advertising. The criticisms of mass media which Benkler brings up include: Benkler moves from this o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13220811 |
The Wealth of Networks He believes this latter change stems from the shift from the one-to-many model of media distribution to a many-to-many model where it is more user centered and controlled. Benkler remarks that the early views were made on the premise that internet communication would replace real world forms comm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13220811 |
The Wealth of Networks Book reviews of "The Wealth of Networks" have also been featured by several news publications, including "The Financial Times", "The Times", and the "New Statesmen". In addition to book reviews, interviews with Yochai Benkler about "The Wealth of Networks" have been conducted and published by ope... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13220811 |
The Wealth of Networks Hunter states: "Benkler provides something close to a General Theory of Information Policy for the networked age that begins to explain how we should think about topics as different as spectrum policy, copyright, user-generated content, network neutrality…well, the list pretty much encompasses al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13220811 |
The Wealth of Networks Vaidhyanathan states: Benkler addressed this criticism in his response to Vaidhyanathan's review, conceding that perhaps more attention to the physical elements of the networked information economy could have been given: In a review of the book by Ben Peters, a similar sentiment to Vaidhyanathan'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13220811 |
The Wealth of Networks Berry challenges Benkler's assumptions that network fosters non-proprietary models and that the latter are sounder and ethically preferable to the former model. According to Berry, Benkler fails to recognize that should network forms of organization happen to be wealth generating, "they will be c... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13220811 |
The Wealth of Networks As Siva Vaidhyanathan stated in the opening of his review, “"there is no better place to turn for an account of the processes of creativity and commerce relating to digital networks and the work that people do with them."” More specifically, "The Wealth of Networks" is also hailed as an incredibl... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13220811 |
Microsegmenting Microsegmentation is a marketing process that uses techniques such as data mining, artificial intelligence, and algorithms to recognize and predict minute consumer spending and behavioral patterns. The collected information is used to help marketers identify extremely precise microsegments (down to the ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13227225 |
Foundation for Teaching Economics The (FTE) is an organization founded in 1975 that promotes economics education by hosting free workshops for high school students and teachers, and by providing educational resources to teachers. The organization was established in 1975 by Jaquelin H. Hume, the co-founder of Basic Amer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13238254 |
Broadcast Electronics (BE) is a manufacturer of AM and FM transmitters, Marti Electronics STL and RPU equipment, developer of the AudioVAULT radio automation system and parent company to Commotion - a social media company for radio. Founded in 1959 in Silver Spring, Maryland, BE initially manufactured endless loop cart... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13251786 |
McClellan oscillator The is a market breadth indicator used in technical analysis by financial analysts of the New York Stock Exchange to evaluate the balance between the advancing and declining stocks. The is based on the Advance-Decline Data and it could be applied to stock market exchanges, indexes, portfolio of sto... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13258327 |
McClellan oscillator +50), the 19 and 39 constants (used for the US exchanges) would have to be revised. For the NZSX a MSI moving-average mechanism might be needed to smooth out the perturbations of such a small number of traded stocks. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13258327 |
Law of Population (1830) was a massive treatise written by Michael Thomas Sadler as a response to Thomas Robert Malthus's works on population growth, notably "An Essay on the Principle of Population" (first edition 1798). In his essay, Sadler refutes Malthus' conclusions regarding the geometric growth of populations an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13268835 |
Ancient economic thought In the history of economic thought, ancient economic thought refers to the ideas from people before the Middle Ages. Economics in the classical age is defined in the modern analysis as a factor of ethics and politics, only becoming an object of study as a separate discipline during the 18th cen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13280365 |
Ancient economic thought By 1202, Fibonacci's use of zero and Vedic-Islamic numerals, motivated Europeans to apply zero as an exponent, birthing modern decimals 350 years later. The city-states of Sumer developed a trade and market economy based originally on the commodity money of the Shekel which was a certain weight... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13280365 |
Ancient economic thought Several ancient Greek and Roman thinkers made various economic observations, especially Aristotle and Xenophon. Many other Greek writings show understanding of sophisticated economic concepts. For instance, a form of Gresham’s Law is presented in Aristophanes’ "Frogs", and beyond Plato's applic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13280365 |
Ancient economic thought "Hiero" is a minor work which includes discussion of leaders stimulating private production and technology through various means including public recognition and prizes. "Ways and Means" is a short treatise on economic development, and showed an understanding of the importance of taking advanta... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13280365 |
Ancient economic thought Later in the biography, Xenophon discusses the concept of division of labor, referencing specialized cooks and workers in a shoemaking shop. Scholars have noted that Adam Smith's early notes about this concept "read like a paraphrase of Xenophon's discussion of the role of the carpenter as a "j... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13280365 |
Ancient economic thought With respect to the identification of skill Plato's writing in "the Republic" also deals with the specialization of skills as the concept of division of labour (Wagner 2007). Aristotle's "Politics" (ca. 350 BCE) was mainly concerned to analyze different forms of a state (monarchy, aristocracy, ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13280365 |
Ancient economic thought This distinction is the basis for Aristotle's moral rejection of usury. Later, in book VII Chapter 1 of "Politics", Aristotle asserts and some interpret this as capturing a concept of diminishing marginal utility, though there has been marked disagreement about the development and role of margi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13280365 |
Ancient economic thought Thus if two bargainers have subjective prices for a good of 10 and 40, Aristotle points out that in exchange, it is most fair to price the good at 16, due to the equality proportional differences from their price to the new price. Another nuance in this analysis of exchange is that Aristotle al... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13280365 |
Ancient economic thought Many of the topics discussed in the "Arthashastra" are still prevalent in modern economics, including its discussions on the management of an efficient and solid economy, and the ethics of economics. Chanakya also focuses on issues of welfare (for instance, redistribution of wealth during a fam... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13280365 |
Ancient economic thought Economics in Jainism is influenced by the Mahavira and his principles and philosophies. His philosophies have been used to explain the economics behind it. He was the last of the 24 Tirthankars, who spread Jainism. In the Economics context he explains the importance of the concept of 'anekanta'... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13280365 |
Ancient economic thought One such debate is recorded in the Discourses on Salt and Iron, a debate over Salt and iron monopolies imposed by Emperor Wu of Han to fund wars and expansionism against the Xiongnu. Although Confucian laissez faire was largely dominant throughout China's history, legalist policies often gained... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13280365 |
Ancient economic thought Reformers and conservatives would oust each other from power once they had the support of the emperor. To some degree, the early Muslims based their economic analyses on the Qur'an (such as opposition to "riba", interest), and from sunnah, the sayings and doings of Muhammad. Al-Ghazali (1058–11... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13280365 |
Ancient economic thought Persian philosopher Ibn Miskawayh (born 1030) notes: This view is in conflict with an idea Joseph Schumpeter called the Great (Schumpeterian) Gap, which comes from his 1954 book "History of Economic Analysis", claiming a break in economic thought during the 500-year period between the decline o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13280365 |
Ancient economic thought This book outlined Abu Yusuf's ideas on taxation, public finance, and agricultural production. He discussed proportional tax on produce instead of fixed taxes on property as being superior as an incentive to bring more land into cultivation. He also advocated forgiving tax policies which favor ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13280365 |
Ancient economic thought His idea about the benefits of the division of labor also relate to "asabiyya", the greater the social cohesion, the more complex the successful division may be, the greater the economic growth. He noted that growth and development positively stimulate both supply and demand, and that the force... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13280365 |
On-target earnings "On-track" or "on-target" earnings (OTE) is a term often seen in job advertisements, especially for sales personnel. It is the expected total pay, if performance matches the expected targets. Actual pay may be higher or lower. The typical pay structure may be composed of a basic salary with an additi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13291592 |
Vendor finance is a form of lending in which a company lends money to be used by the borrower to buy the vendor's products or property. is usually in the form of deferred loans from, or shares subscribed by, the vendor. The vendor often takes shares in the borrowing company. This category of finance is generally used w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13306448 |
Trade sale A trade sale is a common means of exit to a trade buyer. This allows the management to withdraw from the business and may open up the prospect of collaboration on larger projects. The term trade sale is mostly used in the context of venture capital funded businesses and refers to the sale of a company in its... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13306545 |
Neoclassical synthesis The neoclassical synthesis, or the neoclassical–Keynesian synthesis, was a post-World War II academic movement in economics that worked towards absorbing the macroeconomic thought of John Maynard Keynes into neoclassical economics. The resultant macroeconomic theories and models are termed neo-Ke... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13312532 |
Nanoeconomics Mainstream economics (construed broadly to include both orthodox economics and most of heterodox economics), in its macroeconomics part partially inheriting the focus of political economy on such aggregate phenomena as unemployment, inflation and economic growth as its problems in focus, added with the mi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13313533 |
Nanoeconomics A series of major - indeed many of the most common economic problems arise therefrom directly and indirectly, two of which are non-discrimination between value-adding and non-value-adding uses of capital and "the unavoidable (blockaded) need for" inflation for demand-supply stimulation and economic growth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13313533 |
Nanoeconomics Surplus value is the crystallization or condensation of hypostatic mode labor performed in production in the commodity and is propositional/procedural (not objectual/declarative) and hence eludes any market-style standard declarations like specifications, quotations, etc., is not manifested in the market ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13313533 |
Nanoeconomics This amounts to the key law of nanoeconomics: when in physics there are laws of conservation for conserved quantities for physical continuous symmetries giving rise to processes (dynamics), in nanoeconomics there is (are) the law(s) of conservation of conserved qualities for economic discrete symmetries g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13313533 |
Nanoeconomics in B2B contexts a producer/supplier customizing or tailoring the value of his/her products as per the use value requirements, expectations and desired of individual industrial users. is metaphorically defined as the post-analytic discourse, economic theory and post-normal transdisciplinary science of mola... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13313533 |
Nanoeconomics knowledge) rather than transactions as one-time events (with contracts being the non-concurrent subclass of threads). Thereby transaction threads are not totally empirical but also notional. A set of one-to-many threads add up to a many-to-many (sub)industry granule in the empirical-notional space or mani... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13313533 |
Nanoeconomics draws on sciences and disciplines as varying as econophysics, thermoeconomics, ecological economics, affective science, complexity economics, non-equilibrium thermodynamics (synergetics), biosemiotics, decision science, neuroeconomics / picoeconomics, neocybernetics, design science, complex networks and g... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13313533 |
Nanoeconomics Implementation of non-conservativity or innovativeness is arranged at the level of B2B trade, where the system of interactions is closed and modeled as differential games. Quantum-inspired analysis of differential games suggests a non-Newtonian characterization of intelligent agents as self-supervising an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13313533 |
Nanoeconomics Thereby those nano-particles (nanoeconomic granules) are frictional among themselves and conformational in change as well as behaving as colloid particles (their dispersion conditions as to irreversible/lyophobic/suspensoid versus reversible/lyophilic/emulsoid are yet to be established). Also they qualify... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13313533 |
Nanoeconomics This formulation parallels Karl Polanyi's substantive definition of economics. The foregoing and following coverage concerns B2B. The substrate in both cases is embodied complexity or bound structural information (incl. microdiversity) of either products or product portfolios for products with naturally a... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13313533 |
Nanoeconomics As for the global texts of product portfolios or clusters with heterogeneous constitution, they behave or act as semiotically self-referential, quantum-like amorphous computers/media supplying abduction power for innovation. Those abstract text machines have complex network motifs and themes/modules makin... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13313533 |
Nanoeconomics Nanoeconomic particles induce, by way of conjugation, laminarity in consumer choice, hence the nanoscopic scale of discourse and analysis with its quantum effects ('surface area effects'), incl. high viscosity and fluctuational reversibility. On a known level of abstraction these product portfolio/cluster... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13313533 |
Nanoeconomics On the natural or eco-upstream stage the nanoeconomic operation is tasked to perform quantized recovery of default bound micro-diversity (embodied information, or external reference-free or intensive exergy or composition-dependent or non-flow or eco-exergy but defined in terms of physical and other pheno... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13313533 |
Nanoeconomics Arrow in 1987, but framed exactly at the scale of individual or single transactions (and specifically ones taken in a series and that way affecting and shaping decisions of market participants) by Richard H. Lucas (with cognate conceptualizations by Henry Calvert Simons, Robert Jr. Lucas and János Kornai)... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13313533 |
Memphis Furniture Manufacturing Company was the largest component of what was once the largest furniture manufacturing operation in the United States. It was founded in 1896 by Robertson Morrow and, despite a major fire in 1904, quickly grew to include Little Rock Furniture, New Orleans Furniture, and Oklahoma City Fur... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13313986 |
Retained interest (also colloquially known as a "payout penalty") is future, currently unpaid, interest that some lenders add to the remaining principal of a loan to determine a payout figure in the event that the loan is terminated before the completion of the original term. When two parties enter into a loan agreemen... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13337588 |
Retained interest Additionally, retained interest is generally not included as a fee on the loan documents, but instead listed within the Terms & Conditions of the loan contract. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13337588 |
Portfolio Analysis Portfolio Analysis: Advanced topics in performance measurement, risk and attribution (Risk Books, 2006. ) is an industry text written by a comprehensive selection of industry experts and edited by Timothy P. Ryan. It includes chapters from practitioners and industry authors who investigate topics und... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13340066 |
Event of default Default is the occurrence of an event or circumstance against which a party to a contract seeks protection. For example, a contract may state that the recording of a lien against certain property is a default. If the default is left uncured after notice and the passage of time, it may ripen into an eve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13340545 |
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs The (UN DESA) is part of the United Nations Secretariat and is responsible for the follow-up to major United Nations Summits and Conferences, as well as services to the United Nations Economic and Social Council and the Second and Third Committees of the United N... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13372331 |
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Liu advises the Secretary-General on the three pillars of sustainable development—social economic and environmental, and nurtures key partnerships with governments, UN agencies and civil society organizations, including the SDGs. In directing and managing UN DESA... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13372331 |
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs In addition, UN DESA organises and supports consultations with a range of stakeholders, including the private sector and civil society. In this regard, UN DESA's main priorities are promoting progress toward and strengthening accountability in achieving the SDGs.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13372331 |
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs It assists interested Governments in translating policy frameworks developed in UN conferences and summits into programmes at the country level and, through technical assistance, helps build national capacities. Economic Analysis and Policy Division: The Economic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13372331 |
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs The Division provides leadership and catalyses action to promote and implement the United Nations 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development and the related 17 SDGs by conducting research and undertaking substantive analysis to inform policy making, providing capaci... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13372331 |
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs Statistics Division: The Statistics Division of DESA is a global centre for data on all subject matters, bringing to the world statistical information compiled by the entire UN system. It manages and facilitates the development of the global statistical system an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13372331 |
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs The Financing for Sustainable Development Office supports the FfD follow-up and review process, working with Member States, major institutional stakeholders, other relevant organizations, civil society, the business sector. Office of Intergovernmental Support and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13372331 |
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs The Division is the substantive secretariat of the Commission on Population and Development and therefore monitors the implementation of the Programme of Action of the 1994 International Conference on Population and Development and its follow-up commitments. It p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13372331 |
United Nations Department of Economic and Social Affairs It provides substantive support to the biennial sessions of the Forum, prepares technical reports and analytical studies, and fosters dialogue to enhance co-operation and co-ordination on forest issues. It provides a comprehensive and integrated view of forests w... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13372331 |
H share H shares () refer to the shares of companies incorporated in mainland China that are traded on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Many companies float their shares simultaneously on the Hong Kong market and one of the two mainland Chinese stock exchanges in Shanghai or Shenzhen, they are known as A+H companies. H sh... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13386165 |
Canada Education Savings Grant The (CESG) is part of a Government of Canada program, administered through Human Resources and Skills Development Canada, to assist with savings for Canadian children's higher education. Under the CESG program, the government will contribute an amount to a Registered Education Savings Pla... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13413291 |
Hicks optimality In game theory, a Hicks-optimal outcome, named after John Hicks, is an outcome in which the total payoff for all of the players of a game is the most it could possibly be. A Hicks-optimal outcome is always Pareto efficient. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13416497 |
Statement on Auditing Standards No. 55 Statement on Auditing Standards (SAS) No. 55: Consideration of Internal Control in a Financial Statement Audit, commonly abbreviated as SAS 55, is an auditing statement issued by the Auditing Standards Board of the American Institute of Certified Public Accountants (AICPA) in Apri... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13421402 |
Government contractor A government contractor is a company (privately owned or publicly traded but not a state-owned enterprise)either for profit or non-profitthat produces goods or services under contract for the government. Some communities are largely sustained by government contracting activity; for instance, much ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13433595 |
New classical macroeconomics New classical macroeconomics, sometimes simply called new classical economics, is a school of thought in macroeconomics that builds its analysis entirely on a neoclassical framework. Specifically, it emphasizes the importance of rigorous foundations based on microeconomics, especially ratio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13437204 |
New classical macroeconomics However, it was the general equilibrium of Walras that helped solidify the research in economic science as a mathematical and deductive enterprise, the essence of which is still neoclassical and makes up what is currently found in mainstream economics textbooks to this day. The neoclassical... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13437204 |
New classical macroeconomics Keynesians were puzzled by the outbreak of stagflation because the original Phillips curve ruled out concurrent high inflation and high unemployment. The New Classical school emerged in the 1970s as a response to the failure of Keynesian economics to explain stagflation. New Classical and m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13437204 |
New classical macroeconomics Such models have received severe neoclassical criticism, pointing to the disjuncture between microeconomic behavior and macroeconomic results, as indicated by Alan Kirman. The concept of rational expectations was originally used by John Muth, and was popularized by Lucas. One of the most fa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13437204 |
New classical macroeconomics He argues that one should not forget the conditional character of the new classical doctrines. If prices are completely flexible and if public expectations are completely rational and if real economic shocks are white noises, monetary policy cannot affect unemployment or production and any ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13437204 |
New classical macroeconomics Real business cycle theorist Bernd Lucke calls the new classical macroeconomics model the ″caricature of an economy" because its underlying assumptions exclude any non-rational behaviour or the possibility of market failure, prices are always fully flexible, and the market is always in econ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13437204 |
Potbelly stove A potbelly stove is a cast-iron wood-burning stove, round with a bulge in the middle. The name is derived from the resemblance of the stove to a fat man's pot belly. They were used to heat large rooms and were often found in train stations or one-room schoolhouses. The flat top of the fireplace allowed f... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13442518 |
Consolidated Quotation System The (CQS) is the electronic service that provides quotation information for stock traded on the American Stock Exchange, New York Stock Exchange, and other regional stock exchanges in the United States and also includes issues traded by FINRA member firms in the third market. NASDAQ proces... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13447354 |
Gift tax In economics, a gift tax is the tax on money or property that one living person gives to another. Items received upon the death of another are considered separately under the inheritance tax. Many gifts are not subject to taxation because of exemptions given in tax laws. The gift tax amount varies by jurisdict... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13454740 |
The Servile State is a 1912 book authored by Hilaire Belloc. The book is primarily a history of capitalism in Europe, and a repudiation of the convergence of big business with the state. Belloc lays out two alternatives: distributism and collectivism. This book lays out, in very broad outline, Belloc's version of Europ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13455777 |
The Servile State In the ninth section of the book, titled "Has Begun," Belloc explores various ways the servile state has started to creep its way back into modern life. Among these he includes minimum wage laws, employers liability laws, the Insurance Act, and compulsory arbitration. Belloc used his Catholicism and h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=13455777 |
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