Search results for "Commodity" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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 (3,216 words) - 02:13, 6 June 2024
- 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 (3,387 words) - 15:32, 15 June 2024
- 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
