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Archives of Internal Medicine, 1966
I have recently been doing a bit of reflecting about the thing that we call leisure . This urge, I suppose, has arisen subconsciously from the memory of the many occasions in medical practice when I advised a patient "to take things easily for a bit," without giving much thought to what I meant by the injunction or without spelling it out in terms of ...
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I have recently been doing a bit of reflecting about the thing that we call leisure . This urge, I suppose, has arisen subconsciously from the memory of the many occasions in medical practice when I advised a patient "to take things easily for a bit," without giving much thought to what I meant by the injunction or without spelling it out in terms of ...
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Commodity and Contradiction, or, Contradiction as Commodity
October, 1976[Editors' Note: The following is an exchange between Carl Andre and Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe, in the form of responses to previously agreedupon questions. Instead of answering the questions, one-by-one, Andre wrote a short text, which we have printed as the second part of this document.
Carl Andre, Jeremy Gilbert-Rolfe
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‘Commodity Power’ and the Commodities Dialogue
1980The negotiations on individual commodity agreements which took place under the Integrated Programme tended to display less political posturing than the Common Fund dialogue discussed in the preceding chapters, to be attended by delegates and advisers relatively more familiar with commodity-market problems, and to be influenced more by economic as ...
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Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society of London. B, Biological Sciences, 1985
Abstract It is not surprising that past predictions of the extent of adoption of new technology by the food and agricultural industries have only been partly realized. This is a result of the difficulty of forecasting the take-up of technology that is capable of being transferred from other industries, for example, process control ...
J, Edelman, A, Fewell
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Abstract It is not surprising that past predictions of the extent of adoption of new technology by the food and agricultural industries have only been partly realized. This is a result of the difficulty of forecasting the take-up of technology that is capable of being transferred from other industries, for example, process control ...
J, Edelman, A, Fewell
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Commodity speculation and commodity investment [PDF]
, 2008 I distinguish between speculation and index-based investment in commodity futures stressing the differing motivations of the two groups and the differing instruments that they use. I discuss the amounts of money deployed in these activities. I document evidence of extrapolative behaviour in metals prices, consistent with speculation affecting prices ...
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IEEE Micro, 2004
A commodity is available from many vendors without distinction. Simply stated, a commodity is not a high-margin product. Pricing at multiples above unit cost requires something special - valued brand, frontier features, unique service, or lightening-fast distribution. In the beginning, computers were not commodities. During its heyday, IBM had the most
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A commodity is available from many vendors without distinction. Simply stated, a commodity is not a high-margin product. Pricing at multiples above unit cost requires something special - valued brand, frontier features, unique service, or lightening-fast distribution. In the beginning, computers were not commodities. During its heyday, IBM had the most
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Should Commodity Investors Follow Commodities' Prices?
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2018Summary: Most institutional investors gain access to commodities through diversified index funds, even though mean-reverting prices and low correlation among commodities' returns suggest that two-fund separation does not hold for commodities. In contrast to demand for stocks and bonds, we find that, on average, demand for commodities is largely ...
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Chevron: Outsourcing Commodity Processes in a Commodity Business
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2007Faced with a large number of impending retirements, Chevron intended to downsize by outsourcing commodity services. In 2004 management recognized that taking advantage of the growing number of services available on the market required new competencies. This case describes how Chevron learned to identify appropriate outsourcing opportunities and how the
Beath, Cynthia M., Ross, Jeanne W.
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The Need of Transparency in Commodity and Commodity Derivatives Markets [PDF]
SSRN Electronic Journal, 2008 Given the high level of uncertainty in commodity markets, this paper argues the need for transparency-boosting measures specifically tailored to commodity and commodity derivatives markets. In particular, encouraging the creation of a clearing infrastructure for OTC commodity and commodity derivatives markets would be desirable. Moreover, EU regulators
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When a Commodity Is Not Exactly a Commodity
Science, 2008Economic transactions for services such as health and elder care are complicated by personal interactions and emotional connections.
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