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Historic Weapon System Cost Effectiveness Comparison

47th AIAA Aerospace Sciences Meeting including The New Horizons Forum and Aerospace Exposition, 2009
This paper compares the missions and weapon system cost effectiveness of an expensive weapon system designed to very precis ely deliver very lethal warheads against very hard targets, as exemplified by Pershing II, and relatively cheap WW II Balloon weapon systems with no guidance and inexpensive warheads against random targets, using British Operation
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Estimating Techniques Using Historical Cost Data

1995
A wide range of techniques exists for the forecasting of construction costs and prices, ranging from, at one extreme, simple unit cost-based predictions, to complex analytical estimating techniques at the other. The particular technique chosen in each case, and the degree of accuracy of the resulting prediction, will depend to a very large extent on ...
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Cost-Bearing Money: An Historical Retrospective

1989
The theoretical concept of cost-bearing money is quite new. But in ancient Egypt and in medieval Europe there were examples of cost-bearing means of payment that resulted from special economic conditions or legal circumstances. And in the Thirties of our century several projects were launched to create Free-Money in Europe (Onken, 1983) and Stamp Scrip
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Distortions Imposed by Inflation on Historical-Cost Depreciation

Journal of the Northeastern Agricultural Economics Council, 1983
The use of historical-cost depreciation in periods of persistent inflation decreases the present value of depreciation deductions, thus understating the true economic cost of capital and increasing the real after-tax rate of return required by potential investors.
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The Historical Significance of Information Costs

2001
AbstractExamines some of the long‐term changes in economic institutions that have been driven by changes in information costs. The costs of recording, storing, retrieving, and communicating information have all changed significantly over time, though at different rates over different periods.
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