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Overview of Game Theory

end up doing the same thing after person A figures out what B is doing. If Person A does not have a dominant strategy, then if B ...

Economics of Crime Problems and Solutions

because of their greater medical needs (Himelstein, 1993). A survey by the Rand Corporation found that longer jail terms cannot e...

Agricultural Economics and Ethiopia

establishing environmentally sustainable communities would at least be a move in the right direction. In their quest to develop l...

John Kenneth Galbraith

was the Director of the Office of Economic Security Policy and the State Department (1945) and was the Ambassador to India (1962-1...

Ancient History of Mali

Mali trade centered not only around agricultural products, however, but also included ivory, and gold (Library of Congress Country...

Economics and Culture and Ethiopian Women's Lives

Bogalech Aldemu of the Womens Affairs Department of Ethiopias Prime Minister contends that gender discrimination not only exists i...

Health Care Economics and the Impact of Medicare

with advancing age. Care providers cannot set lower fees for uninsured individuals and then penalize the insured and their insure...

Securing Prosperity by Osterman

the problem as small, or temporary or pertinent to the decade. They do not recognize it as a more permanent problem that needs to ...

The Politics and Economics of Stem Cell Utilization

fetal stem cells raises the ethical problems surrounding abortion. This presented a scenario where politicians found themselves p...

Economic Theories of John Maynard Keynes

accept lower wages during times of decline, and quit their jobs (1939). This jeopardizes the beautifully constructed, but admitte...

Violence and Ethnicity

violence in society and how ethnic conflicts arise. Today, ethnic conflicts and in particular ethnic cleansing is a part of the re...

Monetary Policy and the Federal Reserve

lender of last resort. The latter, in turn, calls for bank regulatory responsibilities" (Saxton, 1997). In times of economic crisi...

Automotive Industry And Global Financial Crisis

less cost than other countries (Tabarrok, 2008). This means that every country can have a comparative advantage if they specialize...

The Civil War, Augusta County Virginia, and Franklin County Pennsylvania

square miles and Franklin County Pennsylvania encompasses approximately 772 square miles. Despite their similarity in size, howev...

OPEC AND ECONOMICS

much to the market. Though this means members of the cartel get an equal share (which might be less than if they were separate ent...

HISBAH AND ECONOMICS

is the law, Hisbah (or Al-Hisbah) is the collection of people assigned to ensure the law is fulfilled. In Saudi Arabia, for exampl...

SHOPS, DISCOUNTS AND KNOWING WHEN TO STOP

price cuts can also be duplicated by the competition (McConnell and Brue, 2006). When a rival moves to lower prices, any potential...

THE THROW-AWAY WORKER: USE (AND ABUSE) OF CHINESE IMMIGRANTS IN DEVELOPING CANADA'S RAILROADS - AN OUTLINE

the immigrants were considered expendable when it came to building the railroads. History of Canadas Railroads Much of th...

OIL AND THE INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS CONNECTION

Before we take on an explanation of oil and petroleum on a global scale, we first need to understand how the "liquid gold," as...

Managerial Economics; the Dominant Firm

2000). There are a number of examples of this model, however it is one that is generally seen as unhealthy on an industry...

Fuel Cells

An 8 page paper discussing the economics and problems of hydrogen fuel cells as power plants for cars. Jay Leno praises the BMW H...

ISSUES IN TRADE, INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS AND PRODUCT ROLLOUT

is because the U.S. is becoming a service-oriented economy -- while the country is certainly a net importer of goods, its exportin...

THE ECONOMICS OF U.S. AGRICULTURE

years, thanks to the incentive of subsidies, fields that sprouted different crops have been given over to the growing of corn. Thi...

Threats Against “Four Effects” in Iraq That Could Delay Transition

be an emerging Kurdish state in northern Iraq (Russell, 2007). In addition, the "armed Peshmerga today police the borders of the n...

Country Comparison: Spain And The United States

spoken in the United States. At a size approximately double that of the state of Oregon, Spains population currently stands as ju...

HEALTHCARE ECONOMICS: INCREASING INPUTS AND COST/BENEFIT ANALYSIS

to go out the window, due to various situations. The healthcare industry is such a one, that may not perform to the usual demands ...

Colonization, Economic Development, Geographical Distinctions and the American Civil War

Geography is also important because, as noted, the North had become industrialized. Almost all of the industry was located there, ...

Harford: “The Undercover Economist”

but sometimes works in unpredictable ways. Harford also uses Starbucks to explain why location is so important in real estate and...

International Relations and Japan

In seven pages this paper discusses such issues as the military, culture, society, and economics and how they have impacted upon J...

The Caribbean Influence of African Women

In five pages the influence of African women in the Caribbean in terms of economics, politics, and society are discussed. There a...