Dehumanization of Atlantic Fishery
This essay contends that the Atlantic Canadian small boat fishery is being systematically dehumanized as the socio-economic and organizational conditions in which fishers work become ruled by capitalist-industrial formal institutions and their rationalities. More specifically, small boat fishers, la....
Diminishing our Ecological Footprint: Wind Energy
The Earth, our most precious resource, is suffering from severe negligence and abuse from its most advanced inhabitants: humans. Humans are continually reproducing at large and fast rates, thus putting strain on our vital environment. As our species grows there is naturally a higher demand for foo....
Diminishing returns
PRINCIPLE of Diminishing Returns
PRINCIPLE of Diminishing Returns Suppose that output is produced with two or more inputs and that we increase one input while holding the other inputs fixed. Beyond some pointcalled the point of diminishing returnsoutput will increase at a decreasing rate.
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Gap Analysis: Global Communications
Gap Analysis: Global Communications
Global Communications must cut cost and meet the needs of an expanding market in order to compete with others in its industry.
While doing this they must take into account their employees and how this will affect them. Global communications has been known for th....
Gasoline Economics
The demand for gasoline is a derived demand mainly for use in combustion engines in cars and airplanes. The US is responsible for 44% of the worlds gasoline consumption. The demand is linked to the use of vehicles for transportation and fuel for flying. As the price of gasoline increases, it in....
Law of Diminishing Returns
The Law of diminishing returns is a key one in economics. It is used to explain many of the ways the economy works and changes. It is a relatively simple idea; spending and investing more and more in a product where one of the factors of production remains the same means the enterprise will eventual....
Philosophy of Economics
Philosophy of Economics
The philosophy of economics concerns itself with conceptual, methodological, and
ethical issues that arise within the scientific discipline of economics.1 The primary focus is on issues of methodology and epistemologythe methods, concepts, and theories through which econo....