Sentences with phrase «what economic theory»

This cost reduction in the price of solar PV panels happens to be exactly what economic theory would predict.

Counter to what some economic theory would predict, consumers apparently reacted when they got the money, not when the program was announced.

Not exact matches

And, what we're trying to gently push back in the book is the economics of the large - scale bundled subscription model that Netflix is pursuing, [where what the] economic theory says is you can profitably make things in a bundle that wouldn't be profitable if you sold them separately.

By varying the monkeys» budgets and the amounts of food they would receive for a disk, the researchers found that the monkeys» behavior was within 1 % of what could be predicted from economic theory.

As a consequence, knowledge of good economic theory is required to understand what's happening to money and why slower economic progress, or even a prolonged economic contraction, will be an inevitable result.

Lochner bothers me more for this, and for what it implies about a further way of pushing the theory of liberty even further, the personal autonomy way, than for its prevention of particular economic policies.

But in my concluding comments I will return to economic theory and practice to consider the implications of my views of being and person for what should go on in economics.

This is not the place to go into the complexities of what used to be called «stratification theory,» but ever since Marx gave a prominent place to «class» in his interpretation of history, there has been general agreement to use this term to refer to a system of ranking in which the command of economic resources is the prevailing criterion.

To put it simply, what has been missing [in economic theory] is an understanding of the nature of human coordination and cooperation.

We need to recreate economic theory based on an understanding of what a human being really is and what makes him happy.

This helps explain why our debt burden has not yet triggered what standard economic theory would dictate: a steep decline in the value of the U.S. dollar followed by a severe contraction of the American economy when we found we could no longer afford the foreign goods we like so much.

The tightening network of economic and psychic bonds in which we live and from which we suffer, the growing compulsion to act, to produce, to think collectively which so disquiets us — what do they become, seen in this way, except the first portents of the super-organism which, woven of the threads of individual men, is preparing (theory and fact are at one on this point) not to mechanize and submerge us, but to raise us, by way of increasing complexity, to a higher awareness of our own personality?

Employing what Whitehead called the «fallacy of misplaced concreteness,» and relying at least implicitly on Whitehead's entire organismic worldview, Cobb (with Daly) analyzes the deleterious abstractionism of virtually all modern economic theories.

To what extent can a theory of justice which is so similar in nature to economic theory actually provide us with meaningful insight into the demands of «justice of the marketplace»?

As for an economic version of the horseshoe theory, I first have to clarify what the term «Communist society» means.

Not people from outside that will be working with the economic theories that are alien and not minding what they send to us, not even minding whether the weather in Nigeria and the weather in Europe and America are not the same.

Below is a breakdown of the lesson objectives: * All students will know the main measures of an economy * Most students will have an idea of what the UK economy is currently like * Some students will know how different factors can effect the UK economy The lesson looks at the basics of the following macroeconomic concepts with definition, examples and valid video links: * Inflation * Unemployment * Economic growth * Gross domestic product (GDP) * Balance of payments * Exchange rates The lesson concludes with a nice multiple choice quiz to test students on the lessons theory.

The economic theory behind free copies driving sales is what has encouraged, in more recent years, the rush of many indie publishers to offer their e-books for free, on dozens of websites devoted to the practice, in hopes of generating larger sales down the road.

What it is: This is a wide - ranging overview of the history and key theories of capitalism, with a focus on the underlying forces that impact economic growth and financial markets today.

By incorporating the inherent impacts of different economic forces into every investment decision, this approach addresses what Modern Portfolio Theory (MPT) fails to consider: external economic forces ultimately drive asset class returns and correlations.

Bursting with radical new perspectives on some of the vital, yet often unquestioned, pillars of economic theory and what it really means to be «sustainable» — as well as creative and practical solutions for how we can live more with less — Boyle offers us one of the world's most thought - provoking voices on economic and ecological ideas.

The point is that what we are fighting are deeply held beliefs such as economic theories that people learned before they learned science.

With, in theory, supply no longer controlling the business cycle, Keynes advocated stimulation of demand via government spending and / or tax cuts as a cure for economic depressions caused by what turned out to be a collapse in demand.

Then, standard economic theory suggests the market will incorporate the new information from this price, and individual interactions will again determine the best «solution» to what goods and services to produce.

Economists are peripherally involved (mostly in broad market theory and long term economic forecasts along with interpretation of what any given government report means to the economy at large).

Small wonder you don't know what you don't know if you don't read what you agree with first, and then compose world - spanning economic theories about baselessly.

Contributions are sought on (1) what unconventional sources mean for the theory of peak oil; (2) what an explosion of new fossil fuel emissions might mean for global climate change; and (3) what geological, economic, or policy forces might limit fossil fuel production.

They know exactly what's going to happen and they know the ideal policies, the perfect economic setup -LSB-...] in fact, those policies, once they entered the political realm, no matter how good they sound in theory are always made as inefficient, and in many cases as criminal as possible.

What you meant to say was that «each response will be in the best interest of each human given their marketable economic resources», at least if you are going to represent economic theory accurately.

In the 1960s, economic theory evolved from its earlier focus «on figuring out the conditions that would allow markets to work perfectly» to a new focus on «what would happen when these conditions fail» [3].

Poor nutrition is a major determinant of excess morbidity and mortality among Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander peoples, 1 contributing to over 16 % of the burden of disease.2 In this issue of the Journal (page 549), consistent with the «economics of food choice» theory, 3 Brimblecombe and O'Dea report that the diet of a remote Aboriginal community was high in energy - dense, nutrient - poor foods — the cheapest options to satisfy hunger.4 This energy — cost differential restricts access to healthy food, and helps explain the persistently poor dietary patterns and deplorable health status of remote Indigenous communities.4 Placing nutrition issues in an economic framework highlights the investment required to improve Indigenous nutrition.4 But what has been learned to date about where resources should be directed?

People can't agree on what causes stagflation but the two main theories are a supply shock (usually oil) or poorly made economic policy.