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- utility approach implies that when one commodity is very common, and the ... was a plan to replace the existing commodity money with fiat money, ...21 KB (3,378 words) - 06:11, 3 August 2022
- Cod has been an important economic commodity in an international market ... and Newfoundland, cod became a major commodity, forming trade networks ...18 KB (2,737 words) - 22:21, 7 January 2024
- If there is increased demand for a commodity that requires much land ... The advantages of producing a large quantity of a single commodity ...27 KB (4,103 words) - 17:22, 29 September 2023
- Money → Commodity → Money +, where the “ + “ the capitalist ... of commodities” or generalized commodity production. A commodity ...42 KB (6,187 words) - 15:03, 27 April 2023
- hardly budged between 1921 and 1929. Most commodity prices actually fell. Friedman ... In such a period, the commodity market and the stock market are apt ...33 KB (5,019 words) - 20:15, 24 June 2020
- Marx described this loss in terms of commodity fetishism, in which the ... Commodity fetishism is an example of what Engels called false consciousness ...40 KB (6,034 words) - 17:41, 31 March 2023
- of contradictions characteristic of every commodity and capitalist economy is denied or slurred over; it is denied that any connection exists ...11 KB (1,586 words) - 01:26, 11 November 2022
- metal often sold as an investment commodity. This metal and its alloys ... valuable elsewhere, making it a global commodity and triggering a period ...20 KB (2,849 words) - 22:08, 29 January 2023
- and sellers to buy, sell, and trade commodity products globally. This ... and sellers to buy, sell, and trade commodity products globally. Previously ...31 KB (4,550 words) - 18:56, 13 February 2024
- money removes the concept of money as a commodity, guaranteeing that it has ... removes the concept of money as a commodity, which was the case when ...23 KB (3,579 words) - 06:47, 12 January 2024
- (value) of each additional unit of a commodity—the marginal utility—is ... namely, that the degree of utility of a commodity is some continuous mathematical ...23 KB (3,455 words) - 10:52, 12 May 2023
- urchins and sea cucumbers are a popular food commodity in some cultures and some varieties of sea cucumbers are considered to have medicinal properties ...11 KB (1,553 words) - 17:27, 11 October 2020
- for salt. Salt was considered so precious a commodity in West Africa that it was not uncommon for gold to be traded for equal weight in salt. When ...11 KB (1,703 words) - 01:15, 4 February 2023
- and fairly the daily news of stock, bond, and commodity prices. With more than 50 employees, the company maintained private wire and telegraph connections ...12 KB (1,815 words) - 01:59, 4 December 2023
- he argued that the "price of any commodity rises or falls, by the ... of commodities. His use of the word "commodity" is tied into an extensive ...51 KB (7,537 words) - 12:02, 1 February 2024
- that led into the interior of Africa. A major commodity traded along these routes was ivory, an elephant byproduct that was highly prized throughout ...12 KB (1,812 words) - 14:19, 7 February 2024
- is this utility that determines the value of a commodity: If we were here undertaking to present at length the theory of value, we should lay ...13 KB (1,870 words) - 07:36, 5 April 2024
- shrimp, lobsters, and crabs, are a major food commodity, while smaller crustaceans in their own way are integral to many food webs. Examples include ...12 KB (1,751 words) - 19:04, 4 June 2020
- crafted, a calendar was created, trade and commodity exchange developed and the hereditary system of succession replaced what was known as the "abdication ...11 KB (1,756 words) - 18:50, 26 November 2022
- was typically in the form of gold or silver commodity money. The reliance on promissory notes, however, was accepted at least five centuries earlier ...30 KB (4,733 words) - 23:55, 3 December 2023
- that currencies become less competitive in the commodity markets, and that a wider political base be employed in the setting of currency and inflation ...16 KB (2,516 words) - 19:56, 9 November 2022
- levels of cooperation: Global, regional, and commodity. Global-level cooperation occurs mainly through international economic agreements or organizations ...36 KB (5,269 words) - 08:02, 24 January 2023
- trade. It is also an important center of commodity trade. About 24,000 people worked in the numerous offices of international organizations located ...24 KB (3,552 words) - 06:46, 18 April 2024
- part of the expenses of production of the commodity should consist of the price ... money, money that is not grounded on any commodity like gold and can easily ...28 KB (4,174 words) - 20:58, 9 December 2023
- on the market. However, the market price of the commodity is determined by the inverse demand function applied to the sum of what both firms put on ...14 KB (2,201 words) - 12:00, 30 October 2021
- of Oyo textiles that were always a precious commodity, as well as with iron goods. [[File:Alaafin Oyo c. 1910 - Colorized.jpg|thumb|400px|Alaafin ...14 KB (2,197 words) - 16:50, 11 September 2023
- quid pro quo—an exchange of money or some other commodity—is established before the transaction takes place. In practice, most human societies blend ...14 KB (2,144 words) - 05:31, 11 December 2022
- [https://www.cftc.gov/PressRoom/PressReleases/pr5150-06 U.S. Commodity ... ENERGY PAYS $30 MILLION TO SETTLE U.S. COMMODITY FUTURES TRADING COMMISSION ...44 KB (6,285 words) - 21:48, 16 April 2023
- to wait out unfavorable seasons. Also the spice commodity would prove to be a major contribution to the Portuguese economy. ===Second voyage=== ...13 KB (2,082 words) - 14:38, 3 May 2023
- limit on the quantity of a particular commodity that can be imported into ... severely the lower grades of an imported commodity. This difficulty can be ...32 KB (5,003 words) - 04:32, 27 February 2023
- Sulfuric acid is a very important commodity chemical, and indeed a ... plant is much cheaper than purchasing the commodity on the open market. ...31 KB (4,778 words) - 21:53, 26 February 2023
- Category:Politics and social sciences Category:Anthropology Animal husbandry, also known as animal science, is the agricultural practice of breeding ...15 KB (2,233 words) - 06:10, 28 July 2023
- of a diverse range of products, as well as in commodity and specialty chemicals. These products include high performance materials needed for aerospace ...15 KB (2,143 words) - 14:40, 5 December 2023
- the expectation of some sort of needed commodity being given in return. ... the Western conception of property as a commodity. After the Europeans arrived ...41 KB (6,201 words) - 23:24, 9 December 2021
- novel serves not only as a description of a commodity that is bought and sold in the action of the novel, but also as an ironic commentary on the moral ...15 KB (2,434 words) - 04:07, 15 November 2022
- the Compressed Gas Association Commodity Specification for acetylene has established a grading system for identifying and quantifying phosphine ...14 KB (2,038 words) - 07:36, 14 June 2023
- circa 4000 B.C.E. with salt as the main commodity. Later, Roman soldiers would be paid a salt (sala) allowance. We still draw salaries today ...15 KB (2,315 words) - 11:30, 26 June 2022
- Cotton is an enormously important commodity throughout the world. However, many farmers in developing countries receive a low price for their ...15 KB (2,368 words) - 21:13, 23 May 2020
- the enormous value of the perch as an export commodity. The three countries bordering Lake Victoria—Uganda, Kenya, and Tanzania—have agreed ...14 KB (2,194 words) - 23:25, 21 October 2022
- and their skins have been traded as a valued commodity, to be made into shoes or handbags. They have been used in traditional medicine and revered ...15 KB (2,266 words) - 15:06, 2 July 2022
- et al. 2004). For many years silk was a primary commodity traded by China with the West along the Silk Road, and the silk production process was a ...16 KB (2,383 words) - 23:22, 7 October 2022
- could be widespread, and not just for a specific commodity, was shared by Robert Malthus, and came into disagreement with the views of Say and Ricardo ...16 KB (2,507 words) - 17:18, 2 April 2024
- Vitamins have only been produced as commodity chemicals and made widely available as inexpensive pills for a few decades (Kirk-Othmer 1984). ...16 KB (2,456 words) - 20:40, 3 May 2023
- meat to become an important international trade commodity. In the twelfth century, a church in the English town of Dunmow promised a side of bacon ...17 KB (2,674 words) - 05:35, 26 August 2023
- timber from their reservation became a valuable commodity. By the 1950s the Klamath Tribes were self-sufficient and economically prosperous. ...18 KB (2,702 words) - 23:18, 3 March 2023
- others insist that it is due to falling commodity prices and poor access ... debt burden, unstable international commodity prices, a poor communication ...29 KB (4,349 words) - 03:29, 6 October 2022
- sent salt to the Takeda (salt was a precious commodity used in preserving food). Although he could have cut off Shingen's "lifeline" ...16 KB (2,605 words) - 11:26, 18 April 2023
- Brazil, with increasing importance as a trade commodity to Europe, North America, and Asia. ==Overview and description== Paullinia cupana, or ...15 KB (2,227 words) - 22:26, 2 December 2021
- scene and became major players in the global commodity market. Salt from the Central African region became a major export, matched only by textiles ...16 KB (2,498 words) - 23:51, 3 December 2023
- provinces, but it is also one of the main commodity grain producers in all of China. In 2000, the province's total agricultural output value ...17 KB (2,180 words) - 20:50, 3 April 2024
- #039;s labor theory of value that the value of a commodity depends on the labor involved in its production, arguing instead that value derives from ...17 KB (2,645 words) - 16:56, 2 April 2024
- a black market, its activity while the affected commodity has to be acquired on the black market, and its return to legal trade. Many organized crime ...19 KB (2,879 words) - 18:09, 31 October 2023
- While salt was once a scarce commodity in history, industrialized ... *[http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/salt/ Salt: Statistics ...16 KB (2,377 words) - 15:04, 27 April 2023
- of the moment in time when they are purchased. A commodity available now has a different value than the same item available at a later date; value has ...18 KB (2,691 words) - 13:25, 6 March 2024
- sodium hydroxide as an important commodity chemical. === Major producers === In the United States, the major producer of sodium hydroxide is the ...19 KB (2,762 words) - 15:05, 27 April 2023
- reagent and an important industrial commodity. It is mainly used in making ammonium nitrate (NH4NO3) for fertilizers. It is also used for the ...19 KB (2,942 words) - 02:25, 16 November 2022
- of the Great Plains, dentalium was a precious commodity seen as an emblem of wealth and nobility. Wherever one travels throughout Vancouver Island ...18 KB (2,643 words) - 14:19, 3 May 2023
- U.S. Geological Survey, Mineral Commodity Summaries, [http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/silicon/silicmcs06.pdf Silicon.] Retrieved ...20 KB (2,980 words) - 22:04, 29 January 2023
- equity and alternatives, such as hedge funds and commodity trading advisers. Its global portfolio is broken down into sub-funds covering a specific ...19 KB (2,925 words) - 06:53, 14 June 2023
- paid to persuade people to accept an idea or commodity. The public relations counsel, on the other hand, he saw as an Emersonian-like creator of events ...20 KB (2,909 words) - 23:44, 12 February 2024
- wave of monetary inflation there occurs a wave of commodity inflation which governments respond to, rather than lead. In the late 1970s and early ...23 KB (3,451 words) - 13:10, 10 March 2023
- benefits of international specialization of the commodity composition of international trade. ===Law of Rent=== Ricardo formulate the "law ...22 KB (3,471 words) - 08:07, 28 January 2024
- had agricultural-based economies. The only commodity that France had in enough excess to export was food; therefore, international trade based on ...22 KB (3,407 words) - 05:10, 24 November 2022
- Economic development is hindered by dependence on relatively few commodity exports, vulnerability to natural disasters, and long distances from ...19 KB (2,664 words) - 14:35, 3 May 2023
- might be regarded as a special type of "Commodity Price Index." This type of monetary policy is no longer used anywhere in the world, although ...27 KB (4,108 words) - 19:56, 9 November 2022
- in a free market when the most marketable commodity is desired, not for consumption, but for use in trading for other goods. Menger's book ...22 KB (3,203 words) - 19:14, 22 August 2023
- to 1366 seats. These seats were a sought-after commodity as they conferred the ability to directly trade stock on the NYSE. Seat prices varied widely ...22 KB (3,309 words) - 21:49, 14 November 2022
- Wheat includes any agricultural cereal grass of the genus Triticum in the grass family Poaceae. Wheat is one of the top three cereal crops in ...21 KB (3,052 words) - 18:29, 17 April 2023
- in particular, moved a Marxist analysis of commodity fetishism to the realm of consumption, and looked at the relation between consumerism and dominant ...23 KB (3,233 words) - 08:37, 24 November 2022
- defined as the sale or purported sale of a commodity through illegal means. This may or may not involve securities fraud. [https://lowtherwalker ...24 KB (3,551 words) - 09:43, 11 April 2024
- was not applicable. Garments were the sole export commodity, and the United States was the sole export partner. Likewise, there was no total for imports ...21 KB (3,013 words) - 10:06, 11 March 2023
- Mineral Commodity Summaries, [http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commod ... Donald W. Olson, [http://minerals.usgs.gov/minerals/pubs/commodity/gypsum/gypsmyb01 ...23 KB (3,511 words) - 21:16, 30 January 2024
- by the amount of labor that goes into make a commodity. He calls it the "Labor Theory of Value." Marx and his followers argue that new ...25 KB (3,629 words) - 23:10, 30 September 2023
- of the time were "no more than a mass commodity." He criticized those newspapers because they "failed to have the slightest influence ...24 KB (3,503 words) - 22:24, 25 October 2022
- Free competition is the basic feature of capitalism, and of commodity production generally; monopoly is the exact opposite of free competition ...24 KB (3,604 words) - 15:29, 4 February 2023
- fertile soil, making it the main farming area and commodity grain base in Liaoning. The eastern part of Liaoning is dominated by the Changbai Shan and ...23 KB (3,109 words) - 22:25, 25 October 2022
- plans to export food and cash crops. However, commodity prices declined throughout the 1970s causing economic problems for Sudan. In 1973, Khartoum ...22 KB (3,228 words) - 22:57, 3 March 2023
- for most commercial uses other than commodity price information. Electric telegraphs were to reduce the cost of sending a message thirtyfold ...24 KB (3,473 words) - 05:33, 27 February 2023
- economy; however rising prices for the regions commodity exports and increasing tourism have minimized the effect of this lack of export manufacturing ...24 KB (3,586 words) - 05:58, 10 January 2023
- by global economic slowdowns and slumps in commodity prices. Primary export industries are agriculture (sheep, cattle, dairy), horticulture (apples ...23 KB (3,336 words) - 18:04, 25 July 2023
- Local and regional livestock auctions and commodity markets facilitate trade in livestock. In other areas livestock may be bought and sold in ...26 KB (3,786 words) - 07:46, 9 March 2023
- it was kept closed by a belt. Cloth was a rare commodity, highly valued by the Han. A gift of silk was often used to reward service to the State. Excess ...26 KB (3,971 words) - 01:40, 9 August 2023
- follow a "thing," such as a particular commodity, as it transfers through the networks of global capitalism. Multi-sited ethnography may also ...26 KB (3,726 words) - 06:47, 11 January 2024
- and the Great Depression, the commodity market plummeted, bankrupting many companies and banks, and Itochu Shoten Ltd. and C. Itoh & Co ...25 KB (3,645 words) - 15:54, 7 November 2022
- Bread prices rose as the commodity became scarce, and in an initiative spearheaded by Collot d'Herbois and Billaud-Varenne, a law was enacted ...26 KB (3,556 words) - 23:01, 28 October 2022
- were initiated for cotton, sugar, and other commodity items in the nineteenth century—taking about 140 years to complete. Thus it seems that this ...50 KB (7,650 words) - 14:57, 27 April 2023
- *Friedman, M. "Commodity-Reserve Currency," Journal of Political Economy 59 (3) (Jun., 1951): 203-232 *Friedman, M. 1952. "Price ...27 KB (3,928 words) - 20:26, 6 February 2024
- as parts in production of a new commodity. Sales tax does not distort the production structure as would the VAT, and it would not skew individual ...31 KB (5,015 words) - 14:16, 3 May 2023
- a longer structural commitment (e.g. reform to commodity markets, or government commitment to moral purchasing such as the longstanding embargo against ...24 KB (3,816 words) - 22:31, 20 November 2023
- and scientist.Bill Boichel, "Batman: Commodity as Myth." The Many ... mass culture. He is at once an icon and a commodity: the perfect cultural artefact ...56 KB (8,607 words) - 11:11, 20 September 2023
- Exports totaled US$64,000 in 2005, the sole commodity being phosphate, to South Africa (56.4 percent), India (15.3 percent), South Korea (6.7 ...25 KB (3,595 words) - 04:23, 11 March 2023
- century developments, steel was an expensive commodity and only used for a limited number of purposes where a particularly hard or flexible metal was ...29 KB (4,547 words) - 04:40, 28 April 2023
- and to external events affecting commodity prices. In response to decreasing European Union (EU) banana trade preferences, the government has ...26 KB (3,800 words) - 17:13, 30 January 2024
- possible to run a money-driven organization, as commodity money was the normal way of doing business. [[Image:Judith Leyster Self Portrait.jpg ...29 KB (4,314 words) - 03:51, 11 July 2023
- "gigantomania," chronic commodity hunger, organizational ... the emergence in the economy of chronic commodity shortages, collectivization ...62 KB (8,764 words) - 22:12, 30 March 2023
- 7/highlight_28367en.html Bananas commodity notes: Final results of the 2003 season]. FAO. Retrieved December 15, 2007. * Food and Agriculture ...28 KB (4,308 words) - 04:25, 11 January 2023
- General's Expert Group on African Commodity Issues in 1989-90. Fraser became president of the foreign aid group Care International in 1991 ...31 KB (4,378 words) - 06:35, 5 November 2022
- strategy, improved domestic security, and high commodity prices. Ongoing economic problems include reforming the pension system, reducing high unemployment ...27 KB (3,998 words) - 00:39, 29 November 2023
- that increasingly surrounds us: Commodity life; Technological passivity; Acceleration; Homogenisation.” (emphasis in original). Mander’s theory ...30 KB (4,541 words) - 18:05, 14 April 2023
- who were concerned both with a loss of their commodity and with the threat to personal safety that fire presented. Miners and loggers who came to ...31 KB (4,564 words) - 19:11, 16 April 2023
