Antitrust law focuses on consumer good, and consumers love free.
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In The Economist's report, that consumer good is the Big Mac.
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Whether or not we take action is a matter of consumer good versus corporate greed.
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That's why they're connecting every consumer good you can imagine – clothing, toothbrushes, toilets – to the internet.
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Its a legal drug; its a fast-moving consumer good; and its an electronic product, he said.
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Data privacy is not like a consumer good, where you click "I accept" and all is well.
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Writing about marijuana as a consumer good has traditionally been relegated to magazines or alternative news weeklies.
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Importation and transportation can become the bulk of the cost of getting a consumer good to remote locations.
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You'd disrupt the flow of nearly every consumer good exchanging hands throughout the course of a normal American workday.
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A different question to ask is are some of the utility stocks or consumer good stocks trading too high?
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It was more like an asset than a consumer good: oil in the ground was like money in the bank.
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And that is literally the rule for us, is to take a consumer good and make it functional in a stock market.
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A product ... It could be mostly consumer good products, could be in the beauty space, could be in the food and beverage space.
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As it stands today, housing is the only consumer good where any price drop is universally viewed by the government as a calamity.
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For students, education became an individual consumer good, paid for increasingly with loans and seen as an "investment" in their own future productivity.
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So instead of looking at homes as investments, what if we regarded them like a TV or a car or any other consumer good?
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So instead of looking at homes as investments, what if we regarded them like a TV or a car or any other consumer good?
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Here, works of fashion are interpreted in an art historical context that elevates what we are looking at beyond a consumer good or star vehicle.
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"Pricing pressures at the early stages of the supply chain have yet to transmit to consumer good producer prices," the ECB said in its economic bulletin.
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It hopes to introduce its more stringent testing method in North American and other markets, too, and is working with consumer good standards bodies there, too.
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In his next job, as CEO of consumer good giant Henkel, Rørsted says this lesson helped him ride out the 2008 financial crisis and ensuing layoffs.
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Consumer good makers Reckitt Benckiser was among the worst performers, down 2 percent as JP Morgan cut its rating for the stock, which had published disappointing results last week.
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Over the past two decades, it has expanded this logic to every type of consumer good and this is precisely what makes "the everything store" so difficult to quit.
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Consumer good makers Reckitt Benckiser was the worst performer among blue chips, down 2.1 percent as JP Morgan cut its rating for the stock, which had published disappointing results last week.
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Consumer good makers Unilever and Reckitt Benckiser gave up 1.5 percent after U.S. food company Kraft Heinz posted a quarterly loss and highlighted the tough environment for the packaged food industry.
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Consumer good makers Unilever and Reckitt Benckiser dipped by nearly 1 percent after U.S. food company Kraft Heinz posted a quarterly loss and highlighted the tough environment for the packaged food industry.
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They entered a market where lingerie was considered a luxury product offering, and made it a mass consumer good — and has arguably had a helping hand in making sexuality a mass conversation.
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Start-up E Umbrella may have lost most of the 300,215 umbrellas it rented out in China, but that's not the only consumer good on loan in the country's burgeoning sharing economy.
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What appears to be superficial eye candy — fine pastries, fashion, the glitz of Versailles — is actually a way of showing Marie Antoinette as a doll-like consumer good in the patriarchal Ancien Régime.
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Other domestic ETFs, such as State Street's $10 billion Consumer Discretionary Select Sector SPDR Fund, hold luxury stocks as part of broader exposure to the consumer-good sector, and they have benefited from the market optimism.
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By the '50s, the teenage market had grown and matured to the point of a distinctly "teen" option for almost any consumer good of interest to teenagers, including magazines, books, radio and television programs, clothes, and music.
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"Ultimately the role of the CMA is to make sure there is no consumer harm and we would argue very strongly that there is a consumer good that will come out of this potential transaction," he said.
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Through selective focus and a distorted scale between gift and domestic backdrop, visual planes collide and coalesce, upending the conventions of high-end fashion spreads to expose how easily model and consumer good can be instantly fetishized.
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This is envisioned as a specialty service at first, then as more satellites join the constellation, that window expands until it's 24/7 and across the whole face of the planet, and it becomes a normal consumer good.
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"A car is not the most used consumer good in Russia anyway... so the path of the car market's recovery, which has only started to grow after four years of a fall, can significantly slow down," he said.
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After inflation, the cost of textbooks has almost doubled over the last 20 years, and the cost of college education has increased more than any other consumer good or service — by a long shot, according to the American Enterprise Institute.
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LAGOS, Aug 15 (Reuters) - Nigerian stocks fell on Tuesday to a near two-week low, dragged down by losses in banking, cement and fast moving consumer good sectors, as some investors took profits from previous gains in the market, traders said.
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"The simple mind-set I would have is to be guided by what is good for our consumer, good for our athletes, good for our company," Donahoe told the Wall Street Journal about how he will approach social activism through his brand.
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While Google doesn't claim Lens can identify consumer good (only listing a few items like business cards, paintings, landmarks, plants, and animals), being unable to identify its own products from a bevy of angles highlights the limitations of this feature in its current state.
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There are two schools of thought among economists: Either this is an empty threat to increase his leverage in trade negotiations and get other countries to lower their tariffs or Trump is absolutely serious about imposing more tariffs — this time on a consumer good.
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If I were to mount a defense of a new consumer good — and it's not often that I feel obliged to do so — I'd say they're ham-fisted and obnoxious, but at least what you're paying for them with is written right there on the box.
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"Students still remember vividly when Piñera said that education was a consumer good," Javiera López, the secretary general of the student federation at the University of Chile, said in an interview, making a reference to a remark Mr. Piñera made in 2011 when he was grappling with student demonstrations as president.
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As I take it, "relationality" is basically a short way of saying that it's kind of weird you spent so much time, effort and material resources shipping this unappetizing cheese across the world just to accrue an obscure corporate-issued currency-token with no meaningful ownership rights or convertibility outside of a single consumer good.
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The product/process distinction is the distinction between the product information and the process information of a consumer good. Product information is information that pertains to a consumer good, namely to its price, quality, and safety (its proximate attributes). Process information is information that pertains to the means by which the consumer good is made i.e. the working conditions under which it comes into being, as well as the treatment of animals involved in its production chain (its peripheral attributes).
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Coffee attained a value as a symbol of inner-German unity, far above its role as a mere consumer good or commodity. Reader des deutschen Kaffeeverbandes, Stand 2004, abgerufen August 2008.
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People buy capital goods to use as static resources to make other goods, whereas consumer goods are purchased to be consumed. For example, an automobile is a consumer good when purchased as a private car. Dump trucks used in manufacturing or construction are production goods, because companies use them to build things like roads, dams, buildings, and bridges. In the same way, a chocolate bar is a consumer good, but the machines that produce the candy are production goods.
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A consumer good or "final good" is any item that is ultimately consumed, rather than used in the production of another good. For example, a microwave oven or a bicycle that is sold to a consumer is a final good or consumer good, but the components that are sold to be used in those goods are intermediate goods. For example, textiles or transistors can be used to make some further goods. Commercial goods are construed as tangible products that are manufactured and then made available for supply to be used in an industry of commerce.
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" Freedom Daily. June 2000. Future of Freedom Foundation. According to Jeffrey Herbener, Fetter asserted that "just as the price of each consumer good is determined solely by subjective value, the rate of interest is determined solely by time preference.
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Petrochemicals are the leading Argentine export to the U.S with large parts including bamboo., and wine the leading Argentine consumer good in the U.S. market. Imports are mainly industrial. Fresh Argentine beef was exported to the U.S. market in 1997 for the first time in over 60 years, and in 1999 its export quota of 20,000 tons was filled.
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With respect to the massive 2011–2012 Chilean student protests, Piñera has defended for-profit activity in education and proposed to legalize it, rejecting the students demands for the public ownership of educational establishments.Cadena Nacional de Radio y Televisión: Presidente Piñera anunció Gran Acuerdo Nacional por la Educación Government of Chile. July 5th of 2011. Accessdate July 5th of 2011 Piñera considers education a consumer good.
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Taipei izakaya in 1951 Historian Penelope Francks points to the development of the izakaya in Japan, especially in Edo and along main routes, as one indicator of the growing popularity of sake as a consumer good by the late 18th century. Before the Meiji period, people drank alcohol in sake shops while standing. Some stores started using sake barrels as stools. Later, snacks were added.
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John was also on the US National Men's Lacrosse Team in 2006 where he earned All- World Honors on Defense in London, Ontario. He is a founding member of the lacrosse equipment and apparel company Maverik Lacrosse and No Limit Lacrosse Camps. He was also part of the team that launched Blue Buffalo Pet Foods. He is currently active in invested and advising in several consumer good brands, technology and sport start-ups.
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Chicken Soup for the Soul Entertainment is a self-help, consumer good and media company based in Cos Cob, Connecticut. It is known for the Chicken Soup for the Soul book series. The first book, like most subsequent titles in the series, consisted of inspirational true stories about ordinary people's lives. The book became a major best-seller and something of a social phenomenon because of its ability to change others' perspective of certain topics.
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Similarly, demand-and-supply theory predicts a new price-quantity combination from a shift in demand (as to the figure), or in supply. For a given quantity of a consumer good, the point on the demand curve indicates the value, or marginal utility, to consumers for that unit. It measures what the consumer would be prepared to pay for that unit. The corresponding point on the supply curve measures marginal cost, the increase in total cost to the supplier for the corresponding unit of the good.
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A final good or consumer good is a commodity that is used by the consumer to satisfy current wants or needs, rather than to produce another good. A microwave oven or a bicycle is a final good, whereas the parts purchased to manufacture it are intermediate goods. When used in measures of national income and output, the term "final goods" includes only new goods. For example, gross domestic product (GDP) excludes items counted in an earlier year to prevent double counting based on resale of items.
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Korea first adopted an ISI but followed a developmental state growth strategy. Korea after their independence in 1945 lead to end of economic ties with Japan which they were heavily relied upon. During the Korean war, the country was devastated both physically and mentally. After the Korean war, South Korea focused on exporting primary products such as crops, minerals while imported manufactured goods from US. In the beginning of ISI era, Korean industries were successful in textile and light consumer good industries (Charles, 1975).
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Ariès maintains that both practices are far less frequent in the rest of the western world. He argues that the embalmed body is not seen as fully dead and Americans believe they can communicate their last words and goodbyes to the deceased at this moment. Funeral directors, he states, market themselves as "doctors of grief" who can see people through the period of mourning and return them to normality after the rituals of death (funeral, wake, burial/cremation) are complete. In this way, Ariès argues, death is sold like any other consumer good.
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Maurice Luiset (1871 - 1942) was a French financier and entrepreneur who created several mainstream consumer-good products such as MIR, the world's oldest existing, and continental Europe's first detergent, the perfume Porte- Bonheur and a hygiene and beauty product La Mondiale. Maurice Luiset also owned one of the largest candle manufacturing businesses in France, a bee- keeping products business that sold under the brand name La Colombe and merchant ships that he used for import and export activities. He based his business operations out of Vienne, near Lyon, France.
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A health scare is a widely reported story about the danger of something, usually a consumer good or medical product. Such scares have been promoted for decades but have become more popular with the advent of the Internet. They may be based on a misinterpretation of scientific studies, or, as has happened more recently, complete fabrication. This page lists widely reported media stories about how some good or product may have a certain adverse health effect, regardless of whether subsequent research confirmed the proposed link, debunked it, or has been inconclusive.
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This particular type of vanilla, a flavour that no one ever managed to reproduce, was Gabriello's jewel in the crown. The glass sign featuring golden italics on an aquamarine background, which dominated the Corso Palestro parlour's shop window – Cecchi Gelati Naturali – revealed only part of the secret. Gabriello did use top quality ingredients, but it was the formula he used to mix those ingredients that made his gelati so unforgettable. It was a time when gelato was booming; it became a mass consumer good in the postwar years.
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Emerson left the company to lead Columbia's recording department around the summer of 1896. In 1897 the USPC worked with Edison's National Phonograph Company to retrofit phonographs with spring motors invented by Frank Capps. The convenience and cost savings of spring-motor phonographs like these helped shift the phonograph from a public entertainment (in parlors or exhibitions) to a consumer good. In October 1899 the company was prohibited by court order from manufacturing duplicate records, and they began supplying original records for the National Phonograph Company[7][6][6][5][5].
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At the 23rd Congress of the CPSU held in 1966, Brezhnev was able to have himself declared General Secretary of the party, reviving a title that had not existed since Stalin. The Presidium also reverted to its previous name of Politburo. While Kosygin attempted to pursue a policy of favouring light industry and consumer good production over heavy industry (see Kosygin reform), Brezhnev favoured military expansion which necessitated a continued emphasis on heavy industry. While Kosygin remained Premier, it was Brezhnev's policies that won out and by 1968 he was the undisputed leader of both the party and the country.
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A typical blister-packaged consumer good Other types of blister packs consist of carded packaging where goods such as toys, hardware, and electrical items are contained between a specially made paperboard card and clear pre-formed plastic such as PVC. The consumer can visually examine the product through the transparent plastic. The plastic shell is vacuum-formed around a mold so it can contain the item snugly. The card is colored and designed depending on the item inside, and the PVC is affixed to the card using heat and pressure to activate an adhesive (heat seal coating) on the blister card.
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In numerous articles in later times, Charles van der Leeuw joined the ill-heeded chorus of critics against the Bretton Wood monetary system which gave, and continues to give, America almost absolute power over all the world economies by its control over commodity and consumer good markets. To defy that monopoly which makes and (mostly) breaks national economies including those of former Soviet republics, he recalls the effects of Colbert’s mercantilism echoed subsequently in Quesnay’s physiocratic model which turned France from a third- rate nation into a first-rate economy in the XIII Century and which he still considers a viable option to bring today’s monetary mechanism down.
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The RWA program at SAP was created in 1998 to explore ways to integrate RFID, sensor networks and auto- sensing technology within the mission critical business processes that over 47,800 customers worldwide run on SAP software everyday. SAP Research - the R&D; arm - conducted research to leverage RFID technology to automate and improve logistics processes. Concurrently, several large consumer good companies and prominent academics were also intrigued by the potential of RFID. In 1999 the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) created the Auto-ID Center where SAP was the first software company to join and collaborate with industry visionaries such as Procter and Gamble and Gillette.
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Alexander was born on June 30, 1966, in Moscow into a family of non-manual workers. He has three university degrees: technic education (Russian State University of Tourism and Services Studies), commercial education (Moscow State University) and legal education (Russian State University for the Humanities). He underwent an advanced training in the organization of health care and management of medical institutions. From 1988 to 1992 he carried out business activities in consumer good industry (Moscow Regional House of Models, joint Soviet-Swiss enterprise “Interexpression”, small enterprise “Khars”. In June 1991, “Moskovskaya Pravda” compared the production volumes of Khaminsky’s enterprise with similar indicators of large garment factories.
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With 31 companies that are part of the world's biggest 500 companies, France was in 2020 the most represented European country in the 2020 Fortune Global 500, ahead of Germany (27 companies) and the UK (22). As of August 2020, France was also the country that weighted the most on the Eurozone's EURO STOXX 50 (representing 36.4% of all total assets), ahead of Germany (35.2%).EURO STOXX 50, 31 August 2020 Several French corporations rank amongst the largest in their industries such as AXA in insurance and Air France in air transportation. Luxury and consumer good are particularly relevant, with L'Oreal being the world's largest cosmetic company while LVMH and Kering are the world's two largest luxury product companies.
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In partial equilibrium analysis, the determination of the price of a good is simplified by just looking at the price of one good, and assuming that the prices of all other goods remain constant. The Marshallian theory of supply and demand is an example of partial equilibrium analysis. Partial equilibrium analysis is adequate when the first-order effects of a shift in the demand curve do not shift the supply curve. Anglo-American economists became more interested in general equilibrium in the late 1920s and 1930s after Piero Sraffa's demonstration that Marshallian economists cannot account for the forces thought to account for the upward-slope of the supply curve for a consumer good.
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The link between consumer society and its impact on mythical themes stems from one fact: myth has become a consumer good, even a basic and generic product, subject to commercial transactions and the supply and demand model. Losada explains that advertisers try to generate associations between their products and cultural myths that convey desirable values. An inherent aspect of consumer society is the ephemeral nature of those celebrities and objects that undergo a mythification process and are turned into "new myths". This is remarkably significant in the case of film stars or musicians, who are often invested with a halo of exceptionality which they then lose as quickly as they acquired it.
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Dormant stressors during the war emerged as polarizing issues under Truman's administration. Strikes and labor-management conflicts destabilized major industries while severe housing and consumer good shortages added to public stress over inflation which peaked at six percent in a single month. Truman's response to the widespread dissatisfaction and protest of U.S. citizens was generally seen as ineffective. The cost of consumer goods increased rapidly due to the removal of depression-era limits on the prices of everyday items while producers of the remaining price-controlled commodities struggled due to the artificially low prices of their goods. In 1945 and 1946, farmers refused to sell grain for months even though it was desperately needed in the United States and to stave off starvation in Europe.
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Sonic Extreme was publicly revealed in May 2011, when a YouTube user, "ProtonX3", released videos demonstrating the environments and modes. The footage was poorly received by video game journalists. Game Informer and VG247 thought Sonic Extreme looked "predictably" and "compellingly" awful, respectively, and GamesRadar joked it "prov[ed] once again that slapping the word 'extreme' onto any popular franchise, activity or consumer good is a surefire way to guarantee that it will be anything but." The game also elicited commentary on Sega's quality control process; Game Informer and Computer and Video Games expressed relief that it was never released, but questioned why Sega had continued to release other poorly-received Sonic games, such as Shadow the Hedgehog, Sonic Riders and its sequels, and Sonic the Hedgehog (2006).
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Communitarian Ideology and Democracy in Singapore (London and New York: Routledge, 1995) In the area of urban and housing planning, Chua has made inquiries into the uniqueness of public housing in Singapore, with it being neither an investment and consumer good in a free market, nor a social right as in socialist nations. In Political legitimacy and Housing: Stakeholding in Singapore for example, he shows that the success of its unique public housing system, which guarantees a home for all citizens, is a fundamental contribution to the ideological hegemony and thus legitimacy of the one-party state in Singapore.Political Legitimacy and Housing: Stakeholding in Singapore (London and New York: Routledge, 1997) By the mid-1990s, as the capitalist economies in East Asia developed, Chua turned his attention to popular consumer culture.
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Participatory planning is the allocation mechanism in a participatory economy, and is meant to provide a workable alternative to market competition and centralized planning. The planning procedure is conceived as an iterative process in which, (1) production proposals made by workers councils and (2) consumption proposals made by individuals and their neighborhood councils, are submitted and revised through multiple rounds of pricing updates until the process converges on a feasible plan for the upcoming year. The process begins when the facilitation board (see below) announces a list of indicative prices for each final consumer good, as well as for each capital good, natural resource, and category of labor that is available to society. These indicative prices are calculated to reflect the estimated opportunity costs for producing various goods and services, and incorporate both social costs and pollution impacts.
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Abbott Street, Cairns, c. 1925 World War I resulted in many labour and consumer good shortages for the physically isolated Cairns population.The Cairns Post, 3 August 1914 p5 A period of reconstruction and quiet growth followed World War I."armistice signed at last" The Cairns Post 12 November 1918 p4 On 12 October 1923, the Government granted approval for Cairns to be listed as a city.The Cairns Post, 13 October 1923 p4 The opening in 1924 of the Daradgee Bridge outside Innisfail further strengthened connections between Cairns and the rest of Australia.The Cairns Post, 9 December 1924 p5 In 1925, a public electricity supply was introduced,The Cairns Post, 15 January 1925 p5/6 and the Cairns High School and Technical College was opened.The Cairns Post, 3 June 1925 p5 In 1926, The Cairns Post commemorated the settlement's 50th birthday by publishing a 50-page, large-format historical essay and photo supplement.
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