The first linear mixed model tested whether some reasons for valuing nature were endorsed more than others. The model included “Participant” and “Country” as grouping variables (and modeled a random intercept for Participant and Country). For this model (and all subsequent linear mixed model...
The GDP may be growing at 7% per year, but job growth remains pathetic and that too for those well educated. India’s textbook "economic experts" are "worried" about stagnating 5% unemployment rate because their book knowledge ends at GDP growth. They have never lived in poverty or read ...
Sorry for the long intro, but I’m trying to establish that there is no reasonable, objective way of measuring inflation that even comes close to matching the concept we have in our minds, which is roughly “how much more expensive stuff is.” Or “how much more it costs to live these...
2. Information in war is often ambiguous.Another reason wars of choice last too long is that the case for cutting one's losses is rarely crystal-clear. Even if there is lots of evidence that the war is going badly, there are bound to be some positive signs too. Remember all those "be...
You said, “And if inflation isn’t useful for estimating how much better off we are, then what is it measuring?” Inflation doesn’t measure how much better off we are at all. It measures how much more we pay for something that has the same value, but higher price. Hence the term...
Rather, to call something valuable is to say that it has other properties that provide reasons for behaving in certain ways with regard to it... TM Scanlon 被引量: 0发表: 0年 Property Is Not Sovereignty: Barriers to Indigenous Economic Development in Aotearoa/New Zealand's Fisheries In 1986...
A Response to the Adam Smith Report & A New Way to Think About Measuring the Content of the Fair Trade Cup Overall the analysis in this paper agrees with the Adam Smith Institute in that: There is a serious need for ongoing research and evaluation of Fair Trade ... AM Smith - 《Ssrn...