Search results for "Commodity" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
