Decline Critical Thinkings Samples For Students

Abstract

The reduction of the crime rate in the 90s caught many unaware. There were no expectations whatsoever that various factors would conspire to make America a safer place. Before this period, New York was considered the most unsafe city in the world to live. This is no longer the case as New York has become safe. Various analysts have put have various theory in an attempt to explain this phenomenon. The existence of various explanations means that people interpreted the situation differently. Whether the same phenomenon can go on forever is questionable. In the world today where economic matters ...

Best buy enterprise has had minimal innovation activities over the past few years; the company's financial position is declining, revenue fell by 4.7% from two years ago and 2.4% since last year for a total loss of 1.32 billion or 3.36 per share. Cash flow is down 2.6 billion due to charges in the closure of stores in the UK, China, and Turkey, also, the reopening on 50 stores in China. Profit is down by 1.7 billion with a year-on-year growth of negative 361. This report will cover a situational analysis of potential causes of the company's revenue, cash ...

U.S. Middle Class

Introduction

The major shifts U.S. economy has experienced over recent years signify comparable changes in social fabric. The re-orientation of U.S economy from one based on manufacturing one based on services has introduced changes in how class is defined. Notably, a conventional social stratification of upper-middle-lower segments is no longer working in current economic ecosystem. Of particular significance for current purposes is how "middle class" has witnessed differential definitions in response to changing economic status. In a more conventional conception, U.S. middle class is used to refer to "median" earning workers in fixed-hour, manufacturing-based jobs. This conventional ...

Strategies for Declining Market

In business, marketing a brand or a commodity, there are challenges experienced at some point in time. Among some of these elements is this major one; the decline in the market. When this happens, formulation of marketing strategies are critical solutions in countering the same. The strategies must be efficient, reliable, and sustainable in combating holistically the decline in market concern. Ideally, the following examples will greatly aid in this battle. Maximization of short-term cash flow, sustaining share in the short term even if it means cutting margins due to sacrifice. Others include the inevitable share increase in declining ...

In recent years, global baby bust has affected the international market of consumer goods. A significant decrease in the birth rate has influenced the industrialization. A vital decrease in the sales of the consumer goods related to infants has also been observed in the recent years. The national income of several countries is affected where baby bust is on the peak. It is also analyzed that baby bust in many countries have increased the unemployment rate significantly.
Low fertility rate leads to the decline in the growth of population. Baby bust produces many negative effects on the consumer ...

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An increase in population and wealth led to the creation of governments and in turn saw to the rise of powerful empires. Said empires have since been recorded among the most influential domains in the history of the world. Consequently, as one empire rose to power another fell in the hands of their enemies thus creating a form of competition amongst neighboring domains. For instance, Greece was a colony of the Ottoman Empire until the Greek War of Independence that lasted between 1821 and 1831 (Masters and Agoston, 2009, p. 240). Therefore, the empires rose to power depending ...

This is an entity of the U.S government that comprises of civilian mariners and a fleet of merchant's vessels that are either federally or civilian owned and the management is undertaken by the government or the private sector ("Merchant Marine Facts, Information, Pictures | Encyclopedia.Com Articles About Merchant Marine"). These vessels are used for commerce and transportation of various goods and services inside and out of the navigable waters of the United States. During peacetime, the Merchant has a duty of transporting passengers and cargo. In times of war, it works as a helper for the Navy; it serves a ...

Modern agricultural practices and technological advances have led to tremendous success in food production. Despite the success, efforts to increase the production of food have had negative and far-reaching effects on the ecosystem. The persistent decline in biodiversity is affecting food production as well as other food related services (GRiD par 8).
Biodiversity can be defined as the various forms of life on earth regarding the number, distribution and composition (species, alleles, groups, etc.) of the biota (Nair par 9). Agricultural activities have a direct and significant effect on biodiversity while the decline in biodiversity is negatively affecting food ...

As people age their minds may decrease in memory and cognitive functioning. The decline of memory and functioning as people grow older can be linked to the declining in age and ability. Some questions has rose as to whether the race of a person has an impact on the aging process that memory faces. Or is aging different in each person due to their genetic and biological make-up.
A research article had studied this same concept of whether the aging process is related to the race of an individual, and if the individual’s memory decline has an impact ...

Income Statement Vertical Analysis

The gross profit as a fraction of total revenue (gross profit margin) was 60 percent in 2012. There was a slight improvement to 61 percent in 2013 and 2014. Selling and administrative expenses was constant at 37 percent of revenues for all the three years. However, other expenses increased by one percent in each year between 2012 and 2014. The income before taxes as a fraction of revenues declined slightly between 2012 and 2013 by one percent before declining by 4 percent to 20 percent in 2014. Similarly, the consolidated net income as a fraction of the revenues declined ...

In the article The Web is Dead. Long Live the Internet, which was published in the September 2010 issue of Wired Magazine, the authors Chris Anderson and Michael Wolff (2010) present two perspectives on why the popularity of the Web is declining compared to the popularity of services or apps. They contend that on one hand, the reason for this decline is the users or the consumers whose needs are changing and becoming ever more demanding (i.e. “Blame Us”). On the other hand, they also contend that another reason would be the innovations that are being constantly developed by ...

Question 1

The Investment and Savings curve (IS) represents the commodity market equilibrium, with the national savings (S) being determined by national output (Y) - (Private Consumption (C) + Government Expenditure (E). Y is a function of the tax policy, economic expectations and interest rates etc, while E is dependent of government policy (Krugman, 2009).

Figure 1: IS Curve Derivation

The 2007 recession started in the sub-prime mortgage market, due to the expansion of liquidity derived from the bond markets, which was unmatched increases in real assets. The risky loans amounted to $1.3 trillion in 2007, with the subprime market accounting for 18% of total originations. Increased securitization, ...

WT Grant Company was known as the largest retail company in the urban areas of the United States. The main reason for the success of the company was its low-cost chain as compared to its competitors in the US market. The company liquidated due to its ineffective strategy to counter the competitive environment factors prevailing in the market. The major causes of the company’s failure in the market are mentioned below.

Financial Distress

It was the main reason for the failure of WT as it was unable to remain financially strong and increased credit risks to a high extent. The ...

2008 Financial Crisis
2008 Financial Crisis
The Financial crisis in the year 2008 affected globally. The onset of the recession started with the huge flow of money in the American economy. During the year 2001 U.S faced  recession but for a short span of time. In order to recover the economy the Federal Reserve lowered the interest rate from 6.5% in May 2000 to 1.75 % in December 2001. Money was cheaper and investors invested more money in the economy. This was the beginning of the problem. The trigger of the crisis was the housing bubble.

As credit was easily ...

A quota is a trade restriction imposed by the government that limits the amount or value of goods imported or exported into a country (Carbaugh, 2010, p. 151). An import quota affects the consumers, producers and the national welfare. Firstly, a quota reduces the supply of a commodity in the importing country’s domestic market. The reduction in supply causes an increase in market price thus leading to a decline in consumer surplus (Carbaugh, 2010, p. 151). However, the increase in market price benefits both foreign and domestic traders hence producer surplus increases (Carbaugh, 2010, p. 151). However, the ...

Introduction

The process in which there is a decline of manufacturing in the region or society; for example, when a company closes down its production facilities due to being under pressure from the foreign competition. It is an economic and social change that happens due to the removal of many industries. Marx’s and Row thorn’s theory of de-industrialization is considered one of the earliest definitions, which say that it happens due to technological innovations . With the invention, work that is more physical is increased and with that, the capital increases. The machines then replace the labor and the rate of ...

- Equality issues that trade unions should address
Promotion of equality at the work place is one of the key functions of trade unions. The main priorities that trade unions bargain on are pay packages that are offered to workers and the terms and conditions under which the workers carry out their duties. The framework that governs the employer regulation has been strengthened over in the years in countries such the United Kingdom, United States of America and Denmark; it is often the prerogative of the employers to interpret the statute law. The trade unions are a powerful force ...

Global Investment Trends in Clean Energy

Once again the country is concerned with our reliance on an energy policy that depends on controlling resources in other countries. The Senate hearing of March 17, 2011 addressed national and international dynamics in clean energy. Clean energy refers to the use of renewable, nonpolluting (or less polluting the fossil fuels) sources of energy.

The hearing was held by the Committee on Energy and Natural Resources of the U.S. Senate. Senator Jeff Bingaman, New Mexico is the chair of the committee and presided at the hearing. The hearing was called to “Examine Current Global Investment Trends in Clean Energy ...

According to Schlosser (2002), the emergence of the fast-food industry in the US and the subsequent emergence of powerful multibillion dollar food flavoring companies have adversely impacted on the American potato farmers in various ways. The contribution of these large firms to the decline of agriculture in rural American and the ensuing conflicts may well be explained using the sociological conflicts and symbolic interaction theories.
The multinational corporations or companies running America’s most lucrative fast food industry have infiltrated every aspect of traditional agriculture and introduced a modern concept of agribusiness, thus gaining control over the American agriculture, ...

The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) became a federal statute in March of 2010 (H. R. 3590, 2010). The PPACA required that group health plans and health insurance issuers cover all applicants for health insurance without regard to pre-existing conditions or sex of the applicant. Dependent insurance is required to cover uninsured children up to the age of 26. The PPACA further required that group health plans and health insurance issuers provide a stipulated minimum standard benefit at the same rates for everyone. Subsidies were available for eligible individuals, small business, and families. Government subsidies were made ...

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Marketing Final Exam
Question No.1
Distinguish between a product item, product line, and product mix. What are the four advantages (benefits in this sense) of product lines? Do not use examples in the product concept slides. Choose your own. Include a photo to illustrate items, lines, and mixes.

Advantages of Product Line

Life Cycle
Expansion of product line is also a growth ...

Abstract

The U.S position in respect to prestige, stature, reputation and respect has declined in a dramatic way especially in Latin America. To some extent, the weakening of this relationship can be associated with the economic competition that the United States has been facing from other fast developing and developed countries. The U.S military invasion of countries in Latin America leaves those countries more stable but weakens the relation U.S-Latin America relation. The economic gains that U.S has been obtaining in this region have reduced even with the policies that have established by the Whitehouse Occupants. The U.S needs to re-establish ...

3. The existence of sweatshops is our reality. No matter how much we try to avoid wearing something that was made by underpaid workers or children we cannot tell for sure who made it. There are a lot of products on the market that originate from China, Thailand and Bangladesh and are made there. After reading this chapter, I took a look at my sneakers and realized that they are made in Thailand. The reason for this can be found in the fact that what dominates in the economy is the price, therefore some company even though it is American looks ...

Bank of America rose from the merge beginnings where it was once named the Bank of Italy. The bank, at one time, nearly collapsed but miraculously survived due to the tenacity of its proprietor, Giannini. The Bank slowly grew with time by lending out money to its clients. It also reinvested and built more branches in other cities. The bank also deemed it fit to rebrand and change its name to the Bank of America. In fact, the growth process was so drastic and fast that come October 1945 the bank was the largest commercial bank in the world, ...

Effects of credit crunch/ensuing recession on political economy decisions

The 2007-2010 economic crisis is perhaps the worst economic disaster to hit the globe since the Great Depression of the early 1930s. The crisis spread instantaneously across the globe triggering deep recessions in developed and developing economies (Hudson, and Maioli, 2010). Assets were devalued, financial markets became turbulent, unemployment levels rose, and access to credit became limited during the crisis. The onset of the financial crisis marked the end of the highest growth cycle experienced from 2003-mid-2008. The causes of the crisis can be attributed to surpluses in the current account of China and other oil-based economies, which provided ...

Introduction.

Idea density means the number of logical statements in a given sample of communication or text. Arithmetically means the number of ideas conveyed per ten words in the last sentence of every autobiography. The ideas corresponds to basic predicates, typically adjectives, adverbs, verbs, noun and clause conjunctions. Propositions may turn to be true or false depending on mental ability of an individual. The ideas are considered to be true and vice versa when the text is written with no logical contradictions to the topic and in agreement with the context. For successful retrieval of information, the facts provided must match ...

There is a connection between developing ideas and the creation of artworks. Media also plays a role in this process because people today cannot function without the influence of media. These spheres are interconnected and interrelated because of the fact that people live in ‘global village’ as Marshall McLuhan stated. Media plays a role in improvement of ideas because of its omnipresence and it has impact on people’s minds and on the process of creation. The fact that medium is the message, as McLuhan stated, supports the viewpoint that media is the extension of man and so is ...

Introduction

Black berry, one of the well known mobile manufacturing companies, is expected to leave it the business of making mobiles soon. The reason is the current poor performance of the company (Austen, 2013). The company has made a deal of $4.7 billion for its privatization; however, it seems useless to solve the current problems of the company (Connors, 2013).
The company has been performing poorly for last few years in terms of its revenue, sales, profitability, and cash flows. The market share of black berry was declined to 5% in 2012 from 20% in 2009. The decline in the ...

http://nypost.com/2016/02/19/are-we-finally-moving-beyond-the-hook-up-culture/
Chelsea Samelson writes for the New York Post in this article regarding how American’s views on sex have changed in the last decade. The article essentially summarizes a study conducted by OKCupid, where both men and women were asked “Would you consider sleeping with someone on the first date?” and “Would you date someone just for the sex?”
The results of the questions revealed that in response to the first question, there was a 19% decline in participants answering yes. For the second question, there was a 10 percent decline. According to Samelson, this says a lot ...

Question 2

My major is Accounting and Finance. One of the typical jobs for Accounting and Finance majors is accountancy and auditing. Accountants maintain and prepare financial records while auditors examine those financial records. They ensure that the financial statements are true reflection of the business performance and that any taxes that are due are paid on time.
According to the Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the lowest 10 percent in the profession earned 41,400 dollars per year. The salary that is paid depends on the level of experience and education level. The minimum entry qualification for accountants and auditors ...

Over the past decades, the labor force in many nations has encountered drastic changes. An example can be drawn from the U.S. that has experienced a significant decline in the blue-collar jobs. The blue-collar work facilitated the employment of people with minimal skills and education. They worked in the manufacturing industries and earned a meager but honest living. However, with the onset of technology and globalization, the employment opportunities for the low-skilled laborers have reduced leaving many without sources of income. This essay looks at the changing patterns of labor from blue-collar to white-collar jobs and their effects.
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The lack of synergy amongst diverse elements within the closed system, the lack of control and the lack of output within the system may have contributed to the marginal results.

Identify and discuss instances of an aggregate mentality at work in this case.

Aggregate mentality is first witnessed amongst the subgroups recommendations within the task force whereby no new recommendations to the closed system are made. Whereas one group recommends the taking up of total quality management and another recommends a return to the basics, no effort towards the overhaul of the system is made.
Would Karen today describer her school or school system as relatively open or relatively closed? Why? Classify ...

Architecture is a topic that comprises several other disciplines; it is undeniable that a good building must take several other accounts into consideration (Battista, 32). More often than not, you would find architects veering off to other aspects just to make their architectural designs more pleasant and elegant. These aspects did not just start the other day; they date several centuries back in history. The pioneer architects also struggled to design their architectural works with elegance. It’s something which started as early as the 14th century (Battista, 33).
One of the most important aspects of any given architectural ...

Tax reform proposal analysis – Hillary Clinton

Each candidate in this year’s presidential election has a big vision for the United States regarding revenue which would lead to the growth of the American economy. One of the issues at hand that each of them is tackling is the tax issue.
Hillary Clinton is one of the most vibrant candidates in the presidential election. According to Hillary, her tax proposal is set to grow America economically. First on her proposal is the increase in tax on home and business income due to some policies that are set to be enacted, the plan aims at enacting what ...

About the paper

The paper is commissioned to conduct financial analysis for West Marine Incorporation. As part of this analysis, we will be a performing a comprehensive analysis of the raw financial figures of the company and will use the tool of common-size analysis and ratio analysis to unearth the trend that led to led to changes in the financial position of the company for the past three years. However, before introducing the analysis section, we will be introducing some of the facts related to the company and some statistics related to the stock price movement. The report will finally be culminated ...

1. How would you characterize competition in the gaming industry in Macau?
Macau is one of the biggest gambling hubs in the world and is especially attractive because it is the only place in China where gambling is legal. Many companies wish to open casinos or hotels in this former Portuguese colony.
However, with casinos it is not that simple. Legally, there is no competition in the Macau gambling industry as the Executive of Macau SAR has a monopoly over all gaming business (Pereiro, 2010). It can sign concession agreements with companies granting them the right to open ...

Executive Summary

This paper will first summarize the major arguments; lines of thoughts, as well as the recommendations made by the authors of “Where have all the Criminals Gone?” during their analysis of the diminishing rates of crime in the United States. The paper will then introduce briefly some of the methods of critical thinking laid down by Wolcott and then use his critical thinking method to analyze Dubner’s and Levitt’s argument about crime rates. Finally, the paper will wind up with a conclusion on the whole issue.

Framing the Problem

The two authors initially talk about the history of abortion in Romania. ...

U.S. Government Spending
Government is typically defined as a group of people or institutions that administer the public policy in a country or community by exercising political or/and executive power through laws, customs, and traditions. The scale of power which the government can exercise depends on the political and economical strength of the community which is governed. The USA is one of the most powerful and developed countries of nowadays; therefore the U.S. government can be considered to be one of the most influential in the world. Other countries ask the USA for help, support, and defense in case of ...

Introduction

The Death and Life of Great American Cities authored by Jane Jacobs was the most influential book of her time. First published in 1961, it made an attack on the objectives and principles of modernist, orthodox planning of the city and rebuilding in the post-war period in the USA. The book was written in reaction to the devastating outcome of the urban refurbishment in the post-war period. She makes a direct attack on what she terms "orthodox" city planning and reconstruction. She points out the failures of modern city planning, arguing how the various institutions of intellectual planning history have ...

Influence of Buddhism

Influence of Buddhism

Introduction

The Indian region is politically decentralized due to the diversity of religion. However, the organized teachings of Buddhism in the Gupta Empire help the nation in establishing their political and religious unity. Although it was lost after the prosperous reign of the Gupta Empire, it left a significant impact in teaching morality and ethics. Two of the major documents helped in maintaining the significance of Buddhism in India, which were the “Dhammapada” and the “scripts of Faxien”. These two documents depicted the moral teachings of Buddhism during its reign in the Gupta Empire. The objective of this ...

Business

Business Strategy in the Global Marketplace
International, Multinational, Global and Transnational Corporate Strategies
International, multinational, global and transnational corporate strategies differ in various ways. The various levels of companies employ these strategies in their business operations to maximize their output or to remain in continual business operations. Under multinational strategies, the subsidiaries of the firm in the involved foreign country enjoy strong local autonomies of business regarding decision-making (Nirav, n.d.). Under the global strategies, the governance of the business is central and in a strong manner in order to reap the economies of scale through various global manufacturing and standardized ...

The Name of the Class (Course)

The Name of the School (University)
The City and State
Sustainable Design and Construction
Abstract
In the recent past, several environmentally inspired projects have been built in the United Kingdom and around Europe. These projects have claimed to embody the principles of sustainable development. The Greenfield and Brownfield are examples of sites that have been used to parade such projects I bet in small scale. These projects have always presented debates regarding their sustainability and maintainability.

Introduction

In 2009, the Hometown foundation revealed an ambitious plan in south Lanarkshire to build a brand new town named Owenstown ( ...

Introduction

Empathy is essentially a probable psychological motivator for assisting others in distress. More than everything else, empathy is the glue, which joins all human beings together. In basic terms, empathy is the capability to imagine or feel another individual’s emotional experience. Empathy answers the question regarding how one knows what another individual is feeling and thinking (Hatfield et al. 3). The ability to empathize is an imperative part of emotional and social development, affecting a person’s behavior toward others as well as the quality of social relationships. Numerous investigations have revealed that there has been a significant decline in ...

Business Cycles

Overview
There is a contraction phase where the economy shrinks, the trough phase where growth is in negativity but manageable; the Expansion phase is when growth rate turns positive and peak phase is where the expansion grows. This happens every time in a country's economy cycles.

With currently the biggest electronic industry in the world, Japan's free market economy is the third largest globally. Best acknowledged by its effectiveness and efficiency in exports; it is competitive and a good business partner. However, the Agriculture sector is dwarfed. The exports can no longer service the national economy, so the country has shifted ...

Should Declining Fertility Rates be a Cause for Concern in Australia?

Australia has experienced a decline in fertility rates since the 1960s when the fertility rate peaked. According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics (ABS), the total fertility rate has remained below the replacement level since 1976 (ABS 2013). ABS also observed that women of all ages, occupation, or education level are having fewer children now than in the past. Another research dubbed “Battering the Evaluation of Care Health (BEACH)” revealed that 1.3 per 1000 encounters in hospitals between 2007 and 2012 were attributed to infertility (Britt, Harrison & Zhang, 2012) Majority, 81.6% of the infertility cases were reported in women. The ...

Chapter 7: Civil Religion

Majority of people associate the word “religion” with major organized faiths that people have practiced for centuries. Traditional religions typically involve rituals, sacred texts, holidays, intimate beliefs held and practiced by a congregation. However, humans practice another form of religion, often unconsciously, which sociologists call civil religion. According to Johnstone (122), civil religion refers to secular forms of belief and ritual similar to those practiced in religion, such as political ceremonies. In social scientific context, the society matches cultural institutions with some kinds of social groups. For example, religion is a social embodiment in associations such as churches, the ceremonies in ...

Jane Jacob wrote the book, The Death and Life of Great American Cities in 1961 at a time when most of the American cities were overwhelmed with immense development projects. The book provides Jacob’s opinion on what makes these cities work as well as a critique of modern planning theory. This book can be considered to bear dual significance. While on one end the book is specific in offering critique of the urban planning, it is general since it lies in the degree to which Jacob calls into question the concepts of central planning and bureaucratic expertise concepts. Specifically on ...

Introductory overview

Within this memorandum is the brief critique of a visual. The graphs are within the Washington Post website. That is the main objective of the memorandum. In this particular critique, the visual selected is a group of five charts. These charts are used to indicate the rates at which there have been efforts to reduce poverty in the United States of America. Ideally, in the United States of America, there existed an analytic text of the existence of the other America. This indicates the fraction that is composed of the poor Americans. It is within the 50th century that there existed a ...

Introduction

This comparison considers an article by Sir Ken Robinson, ‘How Schools Stifle Creativity’ and the book by John Dewey ‘Experience and Education’. The two works take remarkably informative views on education and the direction it should take to be of benefit to the wholesome education of the learners.

Question (1), summary of the book by ‘Experience and Education’

The book by ‘Experience and Education’ starts with a strong statement of what traditional education is. The author defines the process of education as one whose intent is to prepare the young for future responsibilities by way of imparting in them organized bodies of information and prepared forms of skills (Dewey, 2-3). The ...

Abstract

This report discusses about one of the most important topics related to human resource management. The report discusses about the cross cultural management and the focus of the report has been on cultural shock. The report analyses one of the leading retailers of UK, Tesco and how this retailer has been managing diverse workforce. The report analyses the human resource practices that Tesco has used and applied in order to manage the cultural differences of its employees.

Introduction

Cross cultural management is one of the major ingredients for success for organizations in this challenging environment (Yamazaki & Kayes, 2004). As ...

Do senior citizens that have pets have less stress as measured by lower blood pressure

Research is the process of investigating a particular topic with a variety of dependable and scholarly resources. The three major goals of this exercise can be outlined as to establish facts, to analyze the information obtained from the research and ultimately through this information, to finally arrive at a given conclusion.
This therefore means for a research to be considered as accurate and credible, one first has to source for information, review the data obtained and eventually evaluate it. Several procedures must be adhered to get a positive result during research. One of the very most important and fundamental factor to put into ...

The title of the article that I had chosen is “U.S. Poverty: Census Finds 46.2 Million Impoverished As Median Income Drops” found in the Huffington Post website (September 12, 2012). The persistence of poverty and unemployment in the United States were the issues being addressed in the current event.
The report of the Census Bureau about the poverty in the US was the focus of the article. It was cited that 46.2 million of the country’s population is impoverished, that is, 46.2 million people in the US is living under poverty as indicated by a drop in the ...

The great depression of 1930s was a world economic crisis. In the United States, there was unemployment, decline of industrial production and decline in stock prices. Stock market crash occurred on “black Tuesday” 29/10/1929. This was the major cause of this great depression. The market lost about $9 billion, and business people with bought stocks using borrowed money, sold them without profit to meet their debt deadline.
The second cause of depression was failing of banks. The number of banks deposits decreased at a high rate and many people lost their savings. So many investors became bankruptcy and lost a lot ...

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The financial crisis that hit the United States first and then the world economy starting in fall 2007 meant that the future prospects of many firms looked gloomy at best for some time. Comment on the effect of a recession on the investment curve (only) and on the level of savings, investment, and the equilibrium real interest rate. Show your answer using a graph.
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A depression is a severe economic downturn that lasts for several years. It is characterized by falling Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and high unemployment rates.
What started as a financial crisis in the ...

The product life cycle is divided into several stages depending on the revenue generated by the product. The duration of the cycle depends on the type and use of the product. The incubation stage is when product development takes place. At this stage, the product does not generate any revenues, as there are no sales. The next stage is the introduction stage this is where the product is introduced to the market, and sales at this stage are low as clients are not so far aware of the manufactured goods. At this point, advertisement costs are high, and the ...

What has been the evolution of development theories since the “linear stages” period? Have these theories added value to the understanding/explaining the causes of underdevelopment? Give reasons for/against your position.

Among the many fundamental questions that continue to confound economists today, is the issue, what are the causes of economic growth and decline? Economic theories have emerged to locate, understand, and thus, develop the reasons behind the successes and failures of economies. While the original answers for this question were in the form of simple theories, nowadays, the complexity of this question has been better understood as these theories ...