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David Ibarra Muñoz (born 14 January 1930) is a Mexican economist who served as Secretary of Finance (1977–82) during most of José López Portillo's administration. He currently works as an independent advisor and serves in the board of directors of Grupo Carso and América Móvil. Ibarra Muñoz was born in Santiago de Quer... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20514644 |
David Ibarra Muñoz After failing to control inflation, facing a steep decline in oil prices and making, in his own words, "a series of economic policy blunders", he was asked to step down by the president on September 1982 (barely three months before the end of the presidential term) to chair the then-recently national... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20514644 |
Food system The term food system is used frequently in discussions about nutrition, food, health, community economic development and agriculture. A food system includes all processes and infrastructure involved in feeding a population: growing, harvesting, processing, packaging, transporting, marketing, consumption, an... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20548520 |
Food system These food systems are geared towards a production model that requires maximizing efficiency in order to lower consumer costs and increase overall production, and they utilize economic models such as vertical integration, economic specialization, and global trade. The term “conventional” when describing foo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20548520 |
Food system After World War II, the advent of industrialized agriculture and more robust global trade mechanisms have evolved into the models of food production, presentation, delivery, and disposal that characterizes conventional food systems today. Lower food costs and greater food variety can be directly attributed ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20548520 |
Food system The demand for cheap and efficient calories climbed resulting in nutrition decline; and industrialized agriculture, due to its reliance on economies of scale to reduce production costs, often leads to the compromising of local, regional, or even global ecosystems through fertilizer runoff, nonpoint source p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20548520 |
Food system The 1996 World Food Summit defined food security as a state in which "all people, at all times, have physical and economic access to sufficient, safe and nutritious food to meet their dietary needs and food preferences for an active and healthy life. " Many groups argue that food security is largely determi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20548520 |
Food system As a result, some scholars suggest that local food systems are a good way to revitalize a community. The decreased distance of food transportation has also been promoted for its environmental benefits. Also, farmers can enjoy a better quality of life because producing healthier food will allow them to be pa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20548520 |
Food system Garden sharing, where urban and suburban homeowners offer land access to food growers in exchange for a share of the harvest, is a relatively new trend, at the extreme end of direct local food production. Organic food systems are characterized by a reduced dependence on chemical inputs and an increased conc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20548520 |
Food system Critics have also suggested that organic agriculture has been conventionalized such that it mimics industrial food systems while using pesticides and fertilizers that are organically derived Cooperatives can exist both at the farmer end of food production and the consumer end. Farming cooperatives refer to ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20548520 |
Food system A criticism of cooperatives is that reduced competition can reduce efficiency Fair trade has emerged in global food systems to create a greater balance between the price of food and the cost of producing it. It is defined largely by more direct trading systems whereby producers have greater control over the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20548520 |
Food system In 2020, an evidence review for the European Union's Scientific Advice Mechanism found that, without significant change, emissions would increase by 30–40% by 2050 due to population growth and changing consumption patterns, and concluded that "the combined environmental cost of food production is estimated ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20548520 |
Food system In , the EU's Scientific Advice Mechanism delivered to European Commissioners a Scientific Opinion on how to transition to a sustainable food system, informed by an evidence review report undertaken by European academies. Transparency within food systems refers to full disclosure of information about rules,... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20548520 |
Food system There are also labels which do not rely on certification, such as the USDA's Country of Origin Label (COOL). Participation in local food systems such as Community Supported Agriculture (CSA), Farmers Markets, food cooperatives and farmer cooperatives also enhances transparency, and there are diverse program... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20548520 |
Lipstick effect The lipstick effect is the theory that when facing an economic crisis consumers will be more willing to buy less costly luxury goods. Instead of buying expensive fur coats, for example, people will buy expensive lipstick. The underlying assumption is that consumers will buy luxury goods even if there is... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20553781 |
Lipstick effect "Reliable historical figures on lipstick sales are hard to find, and most lipstick believers can only point to isolated, anecdotal examples as evidence of the larger phenomenon. Data collected by Kline & Company, a market-research group, show that lipstick sales sometimes increase during times of econom... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20553781 |
Donald Markwell "For the Montgomery, Alabama, talk radio personality, see Don Markwell " Donald John Markwell (born 19 April 1959) is an Australian social scientist, who has been described as a "renowned Australian educational reformer". He was appointed Head of St Mark's College, Adelaide, from November 2019. He was S... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20567258 |
Donald Markwell Markwell was the first Rhodes Scholar and the second Australian to serve as Warden of Rhodes House (the global CEO of the Rhodes Trust and the Rhodes Scholarships). As Warden from 2009 to 2012, Markwell expanded activities for Rhodes Scholars in Oxford, expanded alumni communications, events and consult... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20567258 |
Donald Markwell The Chairman of the Rhodes Trust, John Hood, paid tribute to "the extraordinary energy and commitment Markwell has brought to the advancement of the Rhodes Trust's affairs", and to the "many notable accomplishments under his leadership". As Executive Director of the Menzies Research Centre (a public pol... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20567258 |
Donald Markwell As Head (later Warden) of St Paul's College, he is credited with leading the vigorous implementation of an Action Plan for Cultural Renewal arising from a review of the College's culture led by Elizabeth Broderick , securing a new St Paul's College Act 2018 from the New South Wales Parliament to commenc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20567258 |
Donald Markwell It was also cited for its emphasis on economic causes of war and economic means to promote peace, and in a 2013 controversy for rebutting the claim of Niall Ferguson that the ideas in Keynes's "The Economic Consequences of the Peace" (1919) were significantly influenced by Keynes's attraction to a Germa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20567258 |
Donald Markwell Markwell's writings in political science and public law have been especially concerned with constitutional issues, including federalism, constitutional conventions in the Westminster system, and the monarchy and republicanism in Commonwealth countries, including the reserve powers. He uncovered the exte... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20567258 |
Donald Markwell Markwell's "A large and liberal education: higher education for the 21st century" reflects his advocacy of broad undergraduate education, improving teaching and learning in universities, equity and access, the value of collegiate education and student engagement, and the importance of educational philan... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20567258 |
Effective unemployment rate The unemployment rate announced by United States Department of Labor does not include those too discouraged to look for work any longer or those part-time workers who are working fewer hours than they would like. By adding these two groups to the unemployment rate, the rate becomes the effec... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20581952 |
Fiscal theory of the price level The fiscal theory of the price level is the idea that government fiscal policy affects the price level: for the price level to be stable (to control inflation), government finances must be sustainable: they must run a balanced budget over the course of the business cycle, meaning they m... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20586302 |
Exorbitant privilege The term exorbitant privilege refers to the benefit the United States has due to its own currency (i.e., the US dollar) being the international reserve currency. Accordingly, the US would not face a balance of payments crisis, because it purchased imports in its own currency. as a concept cannot re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20586918 |
Exorbitant privilege As American economist Barry Eichengreen summarized: "It costs only a few cents for the Bureau of Engraving and Printing to produce a $100 bill, but other countries had to pony up $100 of actual goods in order to obtain one." In February 1965 President Charles de Gaulle announced his intention to ex... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20586918 |
Exorbitant privilege In response to this issue, two approaches have developed: (1) the construction of long time series based on historical assumptions and (2) the focus on specific categories for which high-quality data exists. In the academic literature, three waves of research trying to assess the existence of exorb... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20586918 |
Exorbitant privilege Another problem is the extent of gains in the FDI category, wherein data is estimated. The second wave addresses these issues and finds substantially smaller differentials, ranging from -0.7% to 0.6%, using the second research approach. The recent availability of new data finally spawned the third ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20586918 |
Individualism and Economic Order is a book written by Friedrich Hayek. It is a collection of essays originally published in the 1930s and 1940s, discussing topics ranging from moral philosophy to the methods of the social sciences and economic theory to contrast free markets with planned economies. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20591754 |
Fixing Global Finance is a book written by "Financial Times" columnist Martin Wolf. It discusses the relationship between global imbalances and financial crises, and offers several personal proposals to restore economic balances. In this book, Wolf argues that the subprime crisis is structurally comparable to the crisi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20603517 |
The Sacred Balance is a book by environmentalist David Suzuki, which is in its second edition as of 2007. The book explores human society's impact on the natural world, both for the planet and the people living on it. Suzuki reveals how dependent humankind is upon the planet's water, soil, sunlight, and the breath of i... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20616113 |
It's a Matter of Survival is a 1990 book by Anita Gordon and David Suzuki. Written for the general reader, the book looks ahead 50 years and explores the condition of human society and the environment. Suggestions are given about how to improve the future. The book originated as a radio series aired in 1989 by the Cana... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20619418 |
Expenditure incidence is the effect of government expenditure upon the distribution of private incomes. This is commonly contrasted with benefit incidence as an approach to planning and measuring the effect of a government spending programme. A pioneering analysis of this was made by the economist Richard Musgrave in h... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20622556 |
Speculative grade liquidity is a liquidity rating of the rating agency Moody's indicating of an issuer's power to remain liquid over the next year. This is, to generate cash internally and externally compared to mature liabilities in the indicated timeframe. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20624724 |
Alpha capture system An alpha capture system is a computer system that enables investment banks and other organisations to submit "trading ideas" or "trade ideas" to clients in a written electronic format, for example TIM Group's TIM Ideas product or Bloomberg LP's Trade Ideas product. Financial Services Authority Mark... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20627732 |
Stuffed and Starved Stuffed and Starved: The Hidden Battle for the World Food System is a non-fiction book written by Raj Patel. It was published in 2008 by Melville House Publishing. "Stuffed and Starved" looks at the inequities of the world food system from the beginning to the end of the conventional food chain, fro... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20633211 |
The Tyranny of the Market is a book written by then-Wharton School of Business professor Joel Waldfogel. According to "Forbes" the book "makes the case that while markets do a good job of providing products that a majority of people demand, they can fall short of meeting the needs of consumers with less prevalent prefe... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20633625 |
Sustainability measurement is the quantitative basis for the informed management of sustainability. The metrics used for the measurement of sustainability (involving the sustainability of environmental, social and economic domains, both individually and in various combinations) are still evolving: they include indicato... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20638398 |
Sustainability measurement Sustainability indicators can provide information on any aspect of the interplay between the environment and socio-economic activities. Building strategic indicator sets generally deals with just a few simple questions: what is happening? (descriptive indicators), does it matter and are we re... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20638398 |
Sustainability measurement Few commonly used indicators are: Environmental sustainability indicators: Economic indicators: Social indicators: Due to the large numbers of various indicators that could be used for sustainability measurement, proper assessment and monitoring is required. In order to organize the chaos and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20638398 |
Sustainability measurement The following is a list of quantitative "tools" used by sustainability scientists - the different categories are for convenience only as defining criteria will inter grade. It would be too difficult to list all those methods available at different levels of the organisation so those listed he... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20638398 |
Sustainability measurement Currently, between one and five barrels of oil are recovered for each barrel-equivalent of energy used in the recovery process. As the EROEI drops to one, or equivalently the Net energy gain falls to zero, the oil production is no longer a net energy source. This happens long before the resou... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20638398 |
Sustainability measurement Brief oil interruptions in 1973 and 1979 markedly slowed - but did not stop - the growth of world GDP. Between 1950 and 1984, as the Green Revolution transformed agriculture around the globe, world grain production increased by 250%. The energy for the Green Revolution was provided by fossil ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20638398 |
Sustainability measurement The exergy analysis of minerals could constitute a universal and transparent tool for the management of the earth's physical stock. Hubbert peak can be used as a metric for sustainability and depletion of non-renewable resources. It can be used as reference for many metrics for non-renewable ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20638398 |
Sustainability measurement Reporting on this Richard Heinberg also notes that the date of peak annual energetic extraction from coal will likely come earlier than the date of peak in quantity of coal (tons per year) extracted as the most energy-dense types of coal have been mined most extensively. A second study, "The ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20638398 |
Sustainability measurement Roscoe Bartlett claims Caltech physics professor David Goodstein has stated that Hubbert applied his theory to "rock containing an abnormally high concentration of a given metal" and reasoned that the peak production for metals such as copper, tin, lead, zinc and others would occur in the tim... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20638398 |
Sustainability measurement For example, a reserve such as the Ogallala Aquifer can be mined at a rate that far exceeds replenishment. This turns much of the world's underground water and lakes into finite resources with peak usage debates similar to oil. These debates usually center around agriculture and suburban wate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20638398 |
Econometric Reviews is a scholarly econometrics journal. It is published six times per year. Its editor is Esfandiar Maasoumi. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20692327 |
The Fruits of Fascism The Fruits of Fascism: Postwar Prosperity in Historical Perspective is a 1990 book by a professor of International Affairs, Simon Reich. It describes the difference in the economic success of nations in post World War II Europe. The book links the effects of globalization of democratic nations and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20710478 |
Last Drinks: The Impact of the Northern Territory Intervention is a 2008 Quarterly Essay by Australian journalist Paul Toohey. Toohey critiques the Australian government's intervention in remote indigenous communities in the Northern Territory, which began in 2007, and aimed to protect indigenous children from a “natio... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20722789 |
We are all Keynesians now "We are all Keynesians now" is a famous phrase coined by Milton Friedman and attributed to U.S. president Richard Nixon. It is popularly associated with the reluctant embrace in a time of financial crisis of Keynesian economics by individuals such as Nixon who had formerly favored less interve... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20729560 |
We are all Keynesians now The phrase gained new life in the midst of the global financial crisis of 2008, when economists called for massive investment in infrastructure and job creation as a means of economic stimulation. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20729560 |
Kerenka () was an informal name of banknotes issued by the Russian Provisional Government in 1917, named so after the chairman Alexander Kerensky. They were also issued by the Gosbank of the Soviet Russia during 1917-1919 from the same plates until the introduction of "sovznaks". | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20734830 |
Information Rules is a 1999 book by Carl Shapiro and Hal Varian applying traditional economic theories to modern information-based technologies. The book examines commercial strategies appropriate to companies that deal in information, given the high "first copy" and low "subsequent copy" costs of information commoditi... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20754461 |
Obligation assimilable du Trésor OATs (Obligations assimilables du Trésor) are government bonds issued by Agence France Trésor (French Treasury), generally by auction according to an annual calendar published in advance. These fungible securities are issued with maturities of seven to 50 years, and have become the meth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20758292 |
Federal Reserve Economic Data (FRED) is a database maintained by the Research division of the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis that has more than 500,000 economic time series from 87 sources. The data can be viewed in graphical and text form or downloaded for import to a database or spreadsheet, and viewed on mobile d... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20765159 |
Federal Reserve Economic Data As a result, previous vintages of data can be superseded and may no longer be available from various data sources." It also says that "Vintage or real-time economic data allows academics to reproduce others’ research, build more accurate forecasting models and analyze economic policy decis... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20765159 |
Federal Reserve Economic Data As of March 2018, the IDEAS site states it has more 2,500,000 items of research that can be browsed or searched, and more than 2,300,000 that can be downloaded in full text. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20765159 |
Feeder fund A feeder fund is an investment fund which does almost all of its investments through a "master fund" via a master-feeder relationship. It is a situation similar to a fund of funds, except that the master fund performs all the investments. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20771059 |
Empowerment Experiment The (formerly called the Ebony Experiment as of March 12, 2009), was co-founded by John and Maggie Anderson of Oak Park, Illinois. Steven S. Rogers, director of the Kellogg Entrepreneurial Practice Center at Northwestern University's Graduate School of Management, serves as an Executive Advisor t... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20788797 |
Empowerment Experiment " Gregory Price, chairman of the economics department at Morehouse College, said the ideas behind the movement were similar to the ideas expressed by black visionaries like Booker T. Washington and Marcus Garvey. Price also said, "The idea is a sound one, given that black Americans are still unde... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20788797 |
Compuscan is a South African credit bureau that provides consumer and commercial credit information within South Africa and other African nations. Founded in 1994 and headquartered in Stellenbosch, South Africa, is a subsidiary of South African-based Information Technologies. The company, which was originally focused o... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20794707 |
Turnpike model of money The turnpike model of money explains valued money as a way to facilitate trade between agents who meet as strangers in spatially separated isolated markets with no communication or transactions between the markets at any time. In the standard frictionless Arrow-Debreu model, since the nonmonetar... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20809708 |
Unequal Protection Unequal Protection: The Rise of Corporate Dominance and the Theft of Human Rights is a 2004 book by Thom Hartmann. The book explains that the largest and most powerful transnational corporations dominate the lives of most of the world's citizens. According to the book, their CEOs are "unapproachable ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20844655 |
Ministry of Finance and Planning (Tanzania) The Ministry of Finance and Planning is a government ministry of Tanzania. It "manages the overall revenue, expenditure, and financing of the Government of the United Republic of Tanzania and provides the Government with advice on the broad financial AFFAIRS of Tanzania in su... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20847192 |
Global Spin Global Spin: The Corporate Assault on Environmentalism is a book by Professor Sharon Beder. It was first published in 1997 and there have been subsequent updated editions in 2000 and 2002. The book uses many detailed case studies to build up a "bigger picture" of how large corporations attempt to manipulate... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20848877 |
Suiting Themselves Suiting Themselves: How Corporations Drive the Global Agenda is a 2006 book by Professor Sharon Beder. Beder argues that an international corporate elite dictate global politics for their own benefit. She suggests that they created business associations and ‘think tanks’ in the 1970s to drive public ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20852724 |
Fixed tax A fixed tax is a lump sum tax that is not measured as a percentage of the tax base (income, wealth, or consumption). Fixed taxes like a poll tax or sin tax are often considered regressive, but could have progressive effects if applied to luxury goods and services. Since citizens share common roads, military p... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20882712 |
Fixed tax This can result in the lower income taxpayers paying much higher proportions of their incomes on taxes, incomes that are less disposable in that they must also pay a larger percentage of their incomes on necessities. Because of this, fixed taxes are better suited to funding governments which are not responsib... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20882712 |
State Bank of Chicago was an American banking firm which conducted business under a state of Illinois charter issued on February 10, 1891. operated from offices in the Chamber of Commerce Building located at the southeast corner of La Salle and Washington streets in Chicago, Illinois. was a successor to the private ban... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20887266 |
Australian Financial Services Licence (AFSL) is a licence normally required to be held by an Australian business involved in the provision of financial services. An AFSL can be issued to an individual, to a director or employee of an AFSL holder, or an authorised representative of a person who holds an AFSL. AFSLs are ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20887410 |
Australian Financial Services Licence The "Corporations Act" distinguishes between the provision of products and services to retail clients and wholesale clients, with extensive disclosure requirements when financial services are provided to retail clients. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20887410 |
Scrip bid In Australia, a scrip bid is a takeover offer where shares are offered partly or wholly in place of cash. This means that, if a take over bid is accepted, shareholders in the target company will receive shares in the new merged entity. This has advantageous tax implications for investors as gains on the sale ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20888322 |
The Second Bounce of the Ball The Second Bounce of the Ball: Turning Risk into Opportunity is a non-fiction book about entrepreneurship, written by Sir Ronald Cohen and first published in 2007 by Weidenfeld & Nicolson, London. The book discusses what it takes to become a successful entrepreneur, and contains biographic... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20907695 |
Non-credible threat A non-credible threat is a term used in game theory and economics to describe a threat in a sequential game that a "rational" player would actually not carry out, because it would not be in his best interest to do so. For a simple example, suppose person A walks up, carrying a bomb, to another perso... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20914085 |
Skyscraper Index The is a whimsical concept put forward by Andrew Lawrence, a property analyst at Dresdner Kleinwort Wasserstein, in January 1999, which showed that the world's tallest buildings have risen on the eve of economic downturns. Business cycles and skyscraper construction correlate in such a way that investm... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20929142 |
Skyscraper Index Two record-breaking skyscrapers, the Singer Building and the Metropolitan Life Insurance Company Tower, were launched in New York before the panic and completed in 1908 and 1909, respectively. Met Life remained the world's tallest building until 1913. Another string of supertall towers – 40 Wall Street... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20929142 |
Skyscraper Index Second, a decline in interest rates allows the average size of a firm to increase, creating demand for larger office spaces. Third, low interest rates provide investment to construction technologies that enable developers to break earlier records. All three factors peak at the end of the growth period.... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20929142 |
Skyscraper Index In normal times when the value of resources is predictable, performance of a building project can be estimated reliably through well-tested formulae. In boom times, rational pricing gives way to irrational buyers' behavior; buyers bet on ever-increasing demand and rents and are willing to pay more than... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20929142 |
Skyscraper Index Stephen Bayley from "The Daily Telegraph" commented, "For all the ambition of its construction, Dubai's new Khalifa Tower is a frightening, purposeless monument to the subprime era". A study by Barr, Mizrach and Mundra (2015) aims to see if there is, in fact, a correlation between skyscraper height and... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20929142 |
Skyscraper Index Finally, the vector autoregression methods allow the authors to see if skyscraper height can predict changes in gross domestic product (GDP) (i.e., if heights predict recessions). The authors find that height cannot, in fact, be used to predict changes in GDP. However, GDP can be used to predict change... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20929142 |
Perilous Passage Perilous Passage: Mankind and the Global Ascendancy of Capital is a 2005 book by Amiya Kumar Bagchi. Bagchi explores the degree to which economic growth under capitalism is poorly correlated with human development. One reviewer said: Bagchi analyzes this capitalist world not in terms of how much growth... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20930845 |
Chan Yuk-shee Professor Chan Yuk-shee, SBS, BBS, JP () (1954 – 22 May 2017) was the President of Lingnan University of Hong Kong from September 2007 to August 2013. Prior to joining Lingnan University, he was the Vice-President for Academic Affairs of the Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST). Professo... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20935416 |
European small claims procedure The European Small Claims Procedure (ESCP) is a small claims procedure which took effect on 1 January 2009 across the European Union (except Denmark) for dealing with cross-border claims under the Brussels Regime up to a value of €5,000. Small claims procedures provide a middle ground be... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20935887 |
Flue-gas condensation Flue gas condensation is a process, where flue gas is cooled below its water dew point and the heat released by the resulting condensation of water is recovered as low temperature heat. Cooling of the flue gas can be performed either directly with a heat exchanger or indirectly via a condensing sc... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20954465 |
Flue-gas condensation A more rigorous approach would be to base efficiency calculations on the Higher Heating Value, which typically results in efficiencies less than 100%. Should the flue gases be cooled below , even efficiencies based on the Higher Heating Value may exceed 100%, since typical heating value definition... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20954465 |
Australian Registered Scheme Number (ARSN) is a nine digit number issued to Australian managed investment schemes by Australian Securities and Investments Commission. The number is required to be printed on all material, and is similar to an Australian Business Number and Australian Company Number. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20957170 |
Noisy market hypothesis In finance, the noisy market hypothesis contrasts the efficient-market hypothesis in that it claims that the prices of securities are not always the best estimate of the true underlying value of the firm. It argues that prices can be influenced by speculators and momentum traders, as well as by ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20958178 |
World Economy and International Relations () is the flagship journal of the IMEMO Institute in Moscow published from 1957. It is available at major research libraries dealing with Russian and East European affairs. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=20990438 |
Quarterly Census of Employment and Wages The (fka ES-202) is the name of the QCEW program. QCEW is a program of the Bureau of Labor Statistics, U.S. Department of Labor. ES-202 is the old name and stood for Employment Security Report 202. | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21009310 |
Doji The doji is a commonly found pattern in a candlestick chart of financially traded assets (stocks, bonds, futures, etc.) in technical analysis. It is characterized by being small in length—meaning a small trading range—with an opening and closing price that are virtually equal. The doji represents indecision in the... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21020925 |
Patrick Neary was Financial Regulator at the time of Ireland's financial crash. At a public appearance before the country's Banking Inquiry in 2015, he admitted it was a mistake to print golf balls featuring the Regulator's logo. He also confirmed he told Taoiseach Brian Cowen, that all the country's banks were solvent... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21036045 |
Financial Modelers' Manifesto The was a proposal for more responsibility in risk management and quantitative finance written by financial engineers Emanuel Derman and Paul Wilmott. The manifesto includes a Modelers' Hippocratic Oath. The structure of the mirrors that of "The Communist Manifesto" of 1848. The Manifesto ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21061331 |
Hemline index The hemline index is a theory presented by economist George Taylor in 1926. The theory suggests that hemlines on women's dresses rise along with stock prices. In good economies, we get such results as miniskirts (as seen in the 1920s and the 1960s), or in poor economic times, as shown by the 1929 Wall Str... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21071990 |
Hoarding (economics) In economics, hoarding is the practice of obtaining and holding resources in quantities greater than needed for one's immediate use. The term "hoarding" may include the practice of obtaining and holding resources to create artificial scarcity, thus reducing the supply, to increase the price, so tha... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21127398 |
Hoarding (economics) If a single business posted those signs, it would, indeed, improve the parking situation at that business, as they could continue to park at adjacent businesses, while the others could not park in their lot. However, when everybody posts such signs, the problem becomes worse for everyone. (This exa... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21127398 |
Mexican Weekend The marked the beginning of the Latin American debt crisis. In August 1982, Mexican Secretary of Finance Jesús Silva Herzog Flores flew to Washington, D.C., to declare Mexico's foreign debt unmanageable, and announce that his country was in danger of defaulting. This crisis had long lasting impact over ... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21179998 |
ReNew Renew" magazine (currently subtitled Renew: technology for a sustainable future) is an Australian magazine covering domestic renewable energy technologies and sustainable culture. Originally a small magazine, printed and distributed locally in Melbourne, it was first published by the Alternative Energy Co-operati... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21194474 |
Neo-institutional economics Neo-Institutionalist Economics is a school of developmental thinking that purports to explain the history, existence, and functions of a wide range of institutions (whether government, the law, markets, the family, and so on) according to the assumptions of the neo-liberal economic theory. I... | https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki?curid=21218035 |
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