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Acquiring Economic Notions: Profit

International Journal of Behavioral Development, 1986
The study examines how an economic concept changes when children undergo different kinds of experiences simulated by means of tutorial and critical training. The final sample was composed of 68 third-grade Italian children, subdivided into a control group (given only a pre and post-test interview about buying and selling) and three experimental groups
BERTI, ANNA EMILIA, Bombi A. S., DE BENI, ROSSANA   +2 more
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Productivity, profitability and economic insecurity

International Journal of Social Economics, 1997
For some time, economists have taken note of a reversal in the historic rise in living standards in the USA and its serious consequences. Namely, for some persons and families, living standards of late have not improved at all and, worse yet, for others their financial fortunes have actually deteriorated.
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Inflation Adjusted Economic Profit

The Engineering Economist, 2003
Abstract In this paper, we measure economic profit in an inflationary environment. Inflation adjusted economic profit requires two principal alterations to Economic Value Added (EVA[rgrave]). First, because inflation increases the replacement cost of non-current assets above book value, one must make a downward adjustment to EVA[rgrave] to correctly ...
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Managerial Economics of Non-Profit Organizations

2008
Overview of managerial economics of non-profit ...
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RDF production plants: II Economics and profitability

Applied Thermal Engineering, 2002
Abstract Production of refuse derived fuel (RDF) is a viable approach to material and energy recovery from municipal solid waste. However, in order to find a market for such a product a high quality level is required so that it can be effectively utilized in actual combustion systems.
CAPUTO A. C, PELAGAGGE, Pacifico
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Profit Power Economics

2009
AbstractProfit Power Economics brings together cutting-edge economics, network mathematics, and business experience to give readers a clear grasp of the underlying forces that are reshaping our business world. This groundbreaking book offers nothing less than a new economic paradigm for our age—as well as the practical tools to make the most of it ...
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The Economic Essence of Profit and Profitability Under Socialism

Problems in Economics, 1969
In connection with increasing the role of profit and profitability under the conditions of the economic reforms carried out in the socialist countries, economists of the Soviet Union and of other socialist countries have been confronted by the task of intensifying the theoretical elaboration of problems of profit and profitability and of means of ...
M. Atlas, R. Vinokur
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The persistence of economic profit

International Entrepreneurship and Management Journal, 2013
Recently, as practitioners and researchers from developed countries have increasingly probed the activities of emerging economies, what exactly drives the long-term economic profitability of firms in China has become the most salient issue in the above fields.
Feng-Jyh Lin, Yi-Min Chen, Fang-Yi Lo
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Profit in Economic Theory

1983
The connection between profit and economic theory is an intimate one. Economic analysis, in very large part, developed only with the maturing of a capitalist system in which production activities became overwhelmingly organised on the basis of profitability. Moreover, the attempt to understand such a system has been the focal point of economic interest
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Profits in Economic Theory

Southern Economic Journal, 1984
James R. Wible, Michael Howard
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