Category Archives: Economics
THE LAW OF DIMINISHING RETURNS : The origin
The `law of diminishing returns' plays so large a part both in the theory of rent and the theory of population as they are now taught, that we should naturally expect to find it promulgated both by James Anderson, the [...]
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Managing firms throughout the business cycle: The Davis Way!
The first decade of the 21st century has been a rollercoaster ride for economic activity. Business confidence was high at the start of the millennium. This was particularly fuelled by the growth of the internet as a means of buying [...]
Do Inefficient Stock Markets Drive Bad Corporate Governance?
One of the major accomplishments of recent corporate governance research has been to expose the risks confronted by minority shareholders in public companies around the globe. Corporate ownership structures such as pyramids, business groups, and dual class shares leave control [...]
Costs Are Cool: The Strategic Value of Economic Clarity
For most nonprofit organizations, the art of making tradeoffs is a condition of survival as well as a key element of success. With limited means to address substantial social challenges, nonprofit leaders constantly make choices about the most effective way [...]
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World Markets Vs. Economy
Although economics has many facets, the field is unified by several central ideas. In this article, we will take a closer look at Ten Principles of Economics. There is no question as to what an economy is. Whether we are [...]
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Black Tuesday
On Tuesday October 29th, 1929, Wall Street witnessed a 13% decline in the Dow Jones, an episode that became known in financial mythology as “Black Tuesday.” It is generally recognized that Black Tuesday was the beginning of the Great Depression. [...]
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Analysis of News’ Impact on Stock Prices
According to the Efficient Market Hypothesis stock prices should be affected by the release of new information. In this paper we analyse the effect of newspapers on stock prices provided that the newspapers do not have access to private information.
This [...]
Better management of food economy is key for long-term food price stability.
Inflation in India, essentially the food price inflation, is rising at a fas t clip, threatening to derail the growth momentum and triggering a rise i n the interest rate.
The situation is quite alarming. For the rich and upper middle-class [...]
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Golden Rice: Case Study
The World Health Organization (WHO) estimates that vitamin A deficiency affects 230 million children worldwide, and at least one million children per year are dying of diseases related to this deficiency. Ingo Potrykus and his collaborator Peter Beyer, with financial [...]
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Case Study on Global Warming
The security of individuals, communities, nations, and the entire global community is
increasingly jeopardized by unpremeditated, non-military environmental threats. These threats
are self-generated: we perpetrate them on ourselves, by fouling our air and water, and
overharvesting our land.
One of the causes of global [...]
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