Sentences with phrase «scale change in economies»

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These are called disruptive technologies or the next big thing, in the sense that existing markets or economies of scale are disrupted by the scope of change.

Not only does this system increase efficiency and achieve economies of scale (both of which lead to a drop in costs), but it lays the groundwork for even more pathbreaking technological changes in processes and products.

However, if the vulgar incomes of the richest Americans result from relaxed social norms rather than from productive forces inherent in the market economy, as Krugman surmises, then social and political changes, such as those advocated by Hollenbach and Hicks, can extend the structure of accountability to these upper echelons of the income scale.

The latter have themselves emerged with the rise, formalization, and consolidation (abetted by economies of scale) of the processing sector in many Asian countries in the 1980s and 1990s (more or less along the lines of the waves in retail change).

While there will be a lot of focus on the big trade merger and its constituents, the industry's other players will have to fight aggressively not to lose any advantage — we all recognize that «bigger is better» when it comes to applying economies of scale in a business whose underlying business model is changing radically.

I meant to add that I would also have a difficult time altering my asset allocation on a large scale despite major changes in the overall economy, markets, etc..

6) Changes in population interrelate to production output of technology due to economies of scale.

«As business leaders, it is our belief that the benefits of strong, early action on climate change outweigh the costs of not acting... a sufficiently ambitious, international and comprehensive legally - binding United Nations agreement to reduce greenhouse gas emissions will provide business with the certainty it needs to scale up global investment in low - carbon technologies... the shift to a low - carbon economy will create significant business opportunities».

That may be changing, well, actually, since global warming is being down played and the economy sucks, it will take longer, but cheap solar panels (nanosolar) and relatively cheap hydrogen fuel cells (Ballard power package handling units in production) with small to medium scale electrolyzers are pretty close even with not so great hydrogen storage options.

It is clear, however, that green power purchase options alone, even in fully deregulated markets, will not bring about the large - scale changes needed to move the world to a sustainable energy economy.

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We also have to take into account that the current EPA methodology is stricter than it was before, so today's MPGs are actually «worth more» than MPGs from many years ago, and finally, these types of changes are usually non-linear, so it's still possible for even more rapid improvements to take place (thanks to new technology, an oil shock, a carbon tax, economies of scales on plug - in vehicles, etc).

At the scale of a large nation or region, at least in most industrialised nations, the economic value of sectors and locations with low levels of vulnerability to climate change greatly exceeds the economic value of sectors and locations with high levels of vulnerability, and the capacity of a complex large economy to absorb climate - related impacts is often considerable.