Search results for "Commodity" - New World Encyclopedia
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- 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
