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At the Margins of the Global Market
2022Contemporary scholars debate the factors driving despotic labour conditions across the world economy. Some emphasize the dominance of global market imperatives and others highlight the market's reliance upon extra-economic coercion and state violence. At the Margins of the Global Market engages in this debate through a comparative and world-historical ...
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2018
Examines more than a decade of enterprise development strategies in marginal economic contexts in South Africa's mining communities and shows how this might impact on development strategies. In 1987, workers in South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) staged a historic national strike, and 40,000 mineworkers lost their jobs. To assist them,
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Examines more than a decade of enterprise development strategies in marginal economic contexts in South Africa's mining communities and shows how this might impact on development strategies. In 1987, workers in South Africa's National Union of Mineworkers (NUM) staged a historic national strike, and 40,000 mineworkers lost their jobs. To assist them,
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Margin Regulation and Stock Market Volatility
The Journal of Finance, 1990ABSTRACTUsing daily and monthly stock returns we find no convincing evidence that Federal Reserve margin requirements have served to dampen stock market volatility. The contrary conclusion, expressed in recent papers by Hardouvelis (1988a, b), is traced to flaws in his test design. We do detect the expected negative relation between margin requirements
Hsieh, David A, Miller, Merton H
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Market Structure and Price-Cost Margins
Economica, 1982In a paper that has become a standard reference in the structure-conductperformance approach to industrial economics, Cowling and Waterson (1976) developed a theoretical rationale for expecting industry profitability to be positively correlated with the level of concentration. Their model, based on a simple algebraic description of oligopoly behaviour,
Clarke, Roger, Davies, Stephen W
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1958
Excerpts from the report Preface: Changes of a far-reaching nature have been taking place in the production and marketing of butter. These changes are bringing about a fuller utilization of both the fat and nonfat solids in milk produced by farmers and a more effective use of the labor, supplies, equipment, and transportation services applied in the ...
Harris, Edmond S., Harris, Edmond S.
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Excerpts from the report Preface: Changes of a far-reaching nature have been taking place in the production and marketing of butter. These changes are bringing about a fuller utilization of both the fat and nonfat solids in milk produced by farmers and a more effective use of the labor, supplies, equipment, and transportation services applied in the ...
Harris, Edmond S., Harris, Edmond S.
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1959
Excerpts from the report: In 1958 the average American consumed about 97.4 pounds of refined sugar. This was 0.3 percent pound more than the 1957 average per person. In 1957, cane sugar refiners, beet sugar processors, and importers of direct-consumption sugar (sugar for use without further refining) delivered to users the equivalent of 49 million 100 ...
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Excerpts from the report: In 1958 the average American consumed about 97.4 pounds of refined sugar. This was 0.3 percent pound more than the 1957 average per person. In 1957, cane sugar refiners, beet sugar processors, and importers of direct-consumption sugar (sugar for use without further refining) delivered to users the equivalent of 49 million 100 ...
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Markets and Trade on the Margins
The introduction contextualises the volume within historiographic discourses on the three key terms of the subtitle: markets, trade, and margins. First, we highlight the interpretations of the terms in the context of urban research and their changes over time.Szívós, Erika, Szende, Katalin
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CALIFORNIA MILK MARKETING MARGINS
1998This article uses monthly price data to estimate farm-retail price response equations for three California market areas. The results indicate that there is a strong direct relationship between retail and farm-level milk prices-retailers increase and decrease their prices equally in response to f.o.b. price increases and decreases.
Carman, Hoy F., Carman, Hoy F.
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Marketing Margins for White Bread
1962Excerpt from the report: This report shows the changes in bread prices, margins, and costs from 1947-49 through 1961. It is one of several reports on food marketing costs and margins prepared by the U.S. Department of Agriculture, and is part of a broad program of research designed to reduce the cost of marketing farm products.
Eiland, J. C., Eiland, J. C.
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Marketing Margins for Fall Potatoes
1961Excerpt from the report Preface: Much public attention has focused on rising food prices as part of the overall rise in the cost of living. This report on marketing margins for fall potatoes is part of a broad program of continuing research designed to provide information on components of farm-retail price spreads for food products.
Hanes, John K., Hanes, John K.
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