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Global deforestation rates deviate from a profit-oriented baseline

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Knoke T   +16 more
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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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Profits and Economic Development [PDF]

open access: possibleSSRN Electronic Journal, 2014
Are rents, or excess profits, good for development? Using industry-level manufacturing data, this paper demonstrates a negative effect of rents, measured by the mark-up ratio, on productivity growth. The negative effect is strongest in poor countries, suggesting that high profits stymie economic development rather than enable it.
Dan Schwab, Eric Werker
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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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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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The economic essence of profit

Экономика и предпринимательство, 2021
Эффективное управление прибылью создает базу для самофинансирования, расширенного воспроизводства, решения проблем социальной направленности. Выработка рекомендаций по совершенствованию методов управления прибылью требует четкой интерпретации ее сущности.
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The Economics of For-Profit Education

2010
For-profit higher education has grown rapidly in the United States over the last 20 years. Examples include vocational schools, technical training, in-house corporate education, the DeVry Institute, Phoenix University, and other new for-profit ­colleges.
Tyler Cowen, Sam Papenfuss
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The economics of for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals.

Health affairs (Project Hope), 2001
This paper examines the economics of for-profit and not-for-profit hospitals through the prism of capital acquisitions. The exercise suggests that of two hospitals that are equally efficient in producing health care, the for-profit hospital would have to charge higher prices than the not-for-profit hospital would, to break even on capital acquisitions.
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