ECONOMIC HISTORY Only study guide for ECS2608 J. Inggs Department of Economics University of South Africa Pretoria © 2012 University of South Africa All rights reserved Printed and published by the University of South Africa Muckleneuk‚ Pretoria Page-layout by the Department ECS2608/1/2012-2014 iii ECS2608/1/12-14 Contents ECONOMIC HISTORY OF THE WORLD Important topics and specific national examples between the two World Wars Chapter Page 1 HOW THE STUDY GUIDE
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Case 1-1: E-Centives‚ Inc‚ - Raising Capital in Switzerland On October 3‚ 2000‚ E-Centives‚ incorporated in the United States‚ made an initial public offering on the Swiss Stock Exchange’s New Market. The company raised approximately US $ 40 million. The E-Centives offering circular stated that no offers or sales of the company’s common stock would be made in the United States‚ and that there would be no public market for the common stock in the United States after the offering. THE SWISS EXCHANGES’S
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Economic Economics is the science that studies how people and societies make decisions that allow them to get the most out of their limited resources. Because every country‚ every business‚ and every person deals with constraints and limitations‚ economics is literally everywhere. This Cheat Sheet gives you some of the basic essential information about economics. the Big Definitions in Economics When studying any subject‚ a key first step is to learn the lingo. Here are definitions for three of
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risk and uncertainty. Demand forecasting is a specific type of business forecasting. Concepts of Forecasting: The manager can conceptualize the future in definite terms. If he is concerned with future event- its order‚ intensity and duration‚ he can predict the future. If he is concerned with the course of future variables- like demand‚ price or profit‚ he can project the future. Thus prediction and projection-both have reference
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Writing 12-18-11 Interpretive essays Order vs. Chaos The hallways during a switching period in our school are crazy! Teachers try to put order in the hallways and try to keep them safe‚ while students are wild and create chaos in the hallways. The hallways in my school are chaotic but have order. Likewise‚ Gotham city also has order and chaos. In Gotham city‚ the Joker creates chaos‚ while batman tries to put order in Gotham City. The camera movements
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Executive orders are orders issued by United States Presidents and directed towards officers and agencies of the U.S. federal government‚ as defined by Wikipedia. Executive Orders do not require approval from Congress‚ therefore‚ the President can implement policies while avoiding public debate and opposition. Some presidents have created tremendous‚ yet positive‚ change throughout history‚ effectively changing the way America is run today‚ by way of Executive Orders. For instance‚ the United States
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World Order is very hot topic nowadays‚ especially‚ keeping in mind the current Presidential election and how it is all handled by the stream media. Some may notice that the media is fully biased and the public image is being severely manipulated as only one side of the story is being told. It is interesting‚ that recently the democracy our country follows became very one-sided‚ meaning that if you do not support the public belief on something‚ meaning that you are wrong. The New World Order is something
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Money Market on the Nigerian Economic Development Mr. Okpe Innocent Ikechukwu Department of Accountancy‚ Enugu State University of Science and Technology‚ Enugu‚ Enugu State of Nigeria Abstract The objective of this study is to examine the impact of money market on the Nigerian economic development; it has been prepared as a contribution to the quest for promotion of entrepreneurship as an engine growth. To access the multidimensional role and medium scale enterprises in bringing out rapid industrialisation
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19th Century Theories 1. Continental thought in the early 19th Century was shaped by a philosophy that rejected material things in favor of a search for inner truth. This philosophy was (a) Cartesian rationalism. (b) classical economics. (c) Marxian economics. (d) social rationalism. (e) dialectical materialism. 2. A school of thought influenced by Auguste Comte’s determinism‚ and which contended that Ricardians “confined the observations on which they based their reasoning to the small
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