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- 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
- wrath of society. Moral courage is a rarer commodity than bravery in battle or great intelligence. Yet it is the one essential, vital, quality for ...28 KB (4,414 words) - 21:27, 16 April 2023
- civilian passenger cars a "non-essential commodity," and production plans for Suzuki's new vehicles were halted. At the conclusion of the ...32 KB (4,585 words) - 00:32, 27 February 2023
- Lukács emphasizes the problem of reification. Due to the commodity nature of capitalist society, Lukács asserts that social relations become ...31 KB (4,665 words) - 06:56, 18 April 2024
- of mimetic desire and the Marxian theory of commodity fetishism. In their theory, the market takes the place of the sacred in modern life as the ...32 KB (4,801 words) - 19:40, 16 April 2023
- Workers are devalued to the level of a commodity--a thing…" From this objectification comes alienation. The common worker is told he ...35 KB (5,329 words) - 21:52, 30 January 2023
- in producing one major export commodity often has hindered the development of diversified economies. The inevitable fluctuation in the price ...34 KB (4,744 words) - 15:36, 4 February 2023
- grain exports are also a major shipping commodity on the lakes. In the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, iron and other ores such as copper ...32 KB (4,828 words) - 19:37, 24 May 2024
- chloride, urea, and anhydrous ammonia. The commodity nature of fertilizer, combined with the high cost of shipping, leads to use of locally available ...33 KB (4,735 words) - 17:28, 26 March 2024
- The Victorian era of the United Kingdom and its overseas Empire was the period of Queen Victoria's rule from June 1837 to January 1901. ...30 KB (4,408 words) - 20:11, 3 May 2023
- of its form – precious metals, commodity certificates, banknotes, coins, electronic money loaned to commercial banks, or anything else the ...40 KB (6,064 words) - 16:22, 18 June 2023
- Kennedy made a large fortune as a stock market and commodity speculator and by investing in real estate and a wide range of industries. He never ...31 KB (4,694 words) - 04:52, 7 May 2024
- has been traded to other countries as a valuable commodity since probably before the fourteenth century. The nuts have been used as a stimulant by African ...31 KB (4,564 words) - 09:39, 22 April 2023
- Given the ensuing decline in world commodity prices, countries heavily ... and power remains a highly personalized commodity. The economy remains vulnerable ...65 KB (9,740 words) - 15:57, 25 January 2023
- United States, public credit, and stock and commodity exchanges. To promote his national vision and defend against the differing political visions of ...32 KB (4,920 words) - 14:22, 18 July 2023
- World demand for cocoa tied the economy to commodity exports and led to migrations from the highlands to the agricultural area on the coast. ...30 KB (4,366 words) - 18:03, 12 February 2024
- become Comoros' most important export commodity. Beginning in 1785, the Sakalava of the west coast of Madagascar began slaving raids on Comoros ...32 KB (4,718 words) - 17:40, 9 March 2024
- Because both methanol and carbon monoxide are commodity raw materials, methanol carbonylation long appeared to be an attractive method for acetic acid ...35 KB (5,135 words) - 07:33, 14 June 2023
- use or commonly known. Listing includes bulk commodity products as well as laboratory chemicals. |- ! colspan=1 | Systematic name ...35 KB (5,199 words) - 23:36, 3 August 2023
- finance minister in 2002, said that Arafat's commodity monopolies gouged his own people, "especially in Gaza which is poorer, which is something ...34 KB (5,106 words) - 09:50, 23 May 2023
- remains. The dried cod became a vital economic commodity and a staple of the Portuguese diet. Afonso V of Portugal claimed the Castilan-Leonese ...34 KB (5,157 words) - 00:26, 12 April 2023
- can create false consciousness such as commodity fetishism (perceiving labor ... principle prevails as in the exchange of commodity equivalents: a given amount ...86 KB (12,847 words) - 15:58, 7 November 2022
- India. Imported horses became an expensive commodity because horse breeding had never been successful in India, perhaps due to the different climatic ...35 KB (5,038 words) - 18:09, 15 March 2023
- high, and output is very sensitive to world commodity prices. As of January 1, 2006 there were an estimated 500,000 head of cattle and 70,000 ...34 KB (5,052 words) - 04:36, 11 March 2023
- China, for many years silk was a primary commodity traded by China with the ... Source: [http://www.fao.org/es/ess/top/commodity.html?lang=en&item ...35 KB (5,365 words) - 20:11, 21 April 2023
- to the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Commodity Credit Corporation. According to the 2005 Annual Report of the United Nations Subcommittee ...37 KB (5,424 words) - 09:27, 15 January 2023
- declined. Cotton was introduced and grown as a commodity. The Puebloans were joined by other cultures. As early as the fifteenth century, the ...40 KB (6,073 words) - 19:47, 26 July 2023
- lament the fact that with such a lucrative commodity, others move in to take over quickly. ===Penalties=== Penalties for use and distribution ...41 KB (6,357 words) - 21:12, 30 January 2024
- pattern used to produce a product, industrial commodity, or handicraft. Generally speaking, it is what makes a product look appealing, and as such, it ...48 KB (6,876 words) - 22:55, 5 February 2023
- ucdavis.edu/profiles/Citrus-2006.pdf Commodity Profile: Citrus] Agricultural Issues Center, University of California. Retrieved October 17, 2008. ...40 KB (5,623 words) - 17:42, 28 March 2024
- when the red salt of Kanawha County was a valued commodity of first Confederate, and later Union forces. Later, more sophisticated mining methods would ...40 KB (5,933 words) - 17:17, 4 May 2023
- The CRB Commodity Yearbook (2000, ISSN 1076-2906). Barry R. Leopold, [http://www.epa.gov/nrmrl/pubs/600r02104/600r02104chap3.pdf Chapter 3: Manufacturing ...41 KB (5,903 words) - 16:12, 9 November 2022
- security to come exclusively to it for this commodity." Molinari and this new type of anti-state liberal grounded their reasoning on liberal ...50 KB (7,105 words) - 19:00, 26 July 2023
- out of many pieces of cheap commodity hardware; usually individual computers connected by networks. These so-called computer clusters can often ...50 KB (7,240 words) - 00:24, 8 January 2024
- network, besides equity, bond, derivatives and commodity contract transactions. ==Civic Administration== The city is administered by the Brihanmumbai ...39 KB (5,723 words) - 02:34, 11 March 2023
- Petroleum (Latin Petroleum derived from Greek πέτρα (Latin petra) - rock + έλαιον (Latin oleum) - oil) or crude oil is a naturally ...42 KB (6,126 words) - 14:48, 28 March 2023
- The February Revolution ( Февра́льская револю́ция , ru|Fevrálʹskaya revolyútsiya ), known in Soviet historiography as ...46 KB (6,600 words) - 01:52, 26 March 2024
- and sold at a price. Children have become a commodity of exchange and child sacrifice is more than a religious or cultural issue, it has become a ...43 KB (6,539 words) - 15:29, 10 December 2023
- was the declining market for its traditional commodity exports, tea, coffee and rubber. In 1968 Bandaranaike formed a coalition, the Sri Lanka United ...42 KB (6,170 words) - 15:45, 27 April 2023
- due to wage stagnation vis-a-vis basic commodity pricing in the marketplace. Additionally there are contentions that reverting to the colón ...41 KB (5,922 words) - 00:08, 13 February 2024
- The slave trade has been, and continues to be, an economic commodity based on human life. In the twenty-first century, this practice became known ...45 KB (6,987 words) - 14:55, 27 April 2023
- Carthage traded in almost every commodity wanted by the ancient world, including spices from Arabia, Africa, and India, and slaves. ...45 KB (7,001 words) - 00:42, 29 November 2023
- of the US and Canada, land was considered a commodity of value that could be freely bought, owned and sold. For the Ojibwa, land was considered ...46 KB (6,830 words) - 10:28, 11 March 2023
- in the production of some tradeable commodity, or because different regions' size allows for the benefits of mass production. ...94 KB (13,955 words) - 12:18, 4 February 2023
- bentwood boxes. Hooligan oil was a valuable trade commodity which enriched khwáan such as the Chilkat who saw regular hooligan runs every year in their ...47 KB (7,545 words) - 03:50, 1 May 2023
- focusing on delivering software with cheap commodity PCs while Apple was offering its customers a richly engineered, but expensive, experience. ...56 KB (7,806 words) - 15:54, 11 August 2023
- himself by working as a bank agent, involved in commodity trading and real estate speculation. He was a house guest of Aaron Burr of New York and collaborated ...51 KB (7,312 words) - 22:21, 4 December 2023
- where he became resentful at treating art as a commodity and communicated this to the customers. On April 1, 1876, it was agreed that his employment ...53 KB (8,229 words) - 20:24, 3 May 2023
- became a high-priced, much sought-after commodity. The Colonial government opened land to settlers interested in establishing cacao estates. ...48 KB (7,150 words) - 17:39, 2 May 2023
- Clauses 28 to 32 say that no royal officer may take any commodity such as corn, wood, or transport without payment or consent or force a knight ...62 KB (10,535 words) - 05:01, 5 November 2022
- Copper was also a valued commodity in imperial Mali. Copper, traded in bars, was mined from Takedda in the north and traded in the south for ...52 KB (8,425 words) - 06:37, 5 November 2022
- Dryden and John Dennis. It saw news become a commodity and the essay develop into a periodical artform. The dates for "Restoration literature" ...54 KB (8,435 words) - 08:15, 4 August 2022
- Although food is a basic and frequently experienced commodity, careful attention to the aesthetic possibilities of foodstuffs can turn eating ...53 KB (8,177 words) - 05:51, 16 June 2023
- of steel, which was an expensive commodity and used only where iron would not do, such as for the cutting edge of tools and for springs. Benjamin ...56 KB (8,479 words) - 16:09, 28 September 2021
- Une femme mariée is structured around Marx's concept of commodity fetishism, where individuals are considered as things. Godard was very ...63 KB (9,163 words) - 20:22, 22 September 2023
- Still, grain was the largest export commodity of the Commonwealth. The owner of a folwark usually signed a contract with merchants of Gdansk ...62 KB (8,547 words) - 08:32, 24 November 2022
- through combustion, or produce a combustible fuel commodity, such as methane, methanol, ethanol or synthetic fuels. The generation of energy by ...73 KB (10,796 words) - 08:37, 23 July 2023
- in Algiers they called for stable and just commodity prices, an international food and agriculture program, technology transfer from North to South ...71 KB (10,085 words) - 19:16, 10 July 2023
- gold or platinum, gem diamonds do not trade as a commodity: there is a substantial mark-up in the sale of diamonds, and there is not a very active market ...81 KB (12,332 words) - 10:25, 29 January 2024
- seen as little more than a natural, boundless commodity that was mercilessly exploited with terrible losses in capture and transportation. The widely ...86 KB (13,304 words) - 17:35, 12 May 2023
- Some of these structures, such as the Saint Petersburg Commodity and Stock Exchange have been recognised as town-planning errors.url=http://www ...163 KB (21,399 words) - 17:45, 1 February 2024
- leaving the country vulnerable to swings in world commodity prices. Russia's manufacturing base is dilapidated and must be replaced or modernized ...137 KB (20,217 words) - 18:16, 22 December 2022
