How “big” should government be?

Quantity discounts; how big should they be?

While most market-oriented pricing schemes include offers of quantity discounts, their size is generally decided on arbitrarily. This article discusses the various possible marketing objectives of quantity discounts and argues that valid methods for calculating appropriate schedules should be linked to these objectives. Using a specific case study, the practical application of this approach is ...

How Big Should the Monster Model Be?

The 1970’s witnessed two attempts to organize large areas of mathematics by introducing a structure in which all of that mathematics took place. Both of these programs explicitly invoke large cardinal hypotheses; advocates of both programs deny that these hypotheses are necessary. There were a few years ago no extant metatheorems justifying these conclusions (but see McLarty [23]). By a metathe...

Research groups: How big should they be?

Understanding the relationship between scientific productivity and research group size is important for deciding how science should be funded. We have investigated the relationship between these variables in the life sciences in the United Kingdom using data from 398 principle investigators (PIs). We show that three measures of productivity, the number of publications, the impact factor of the ...

How should Rural Women's Enterprises Be Developed and Promoted?

This study was a qualitative research which was done by a case study approach. The samples were chosen from rural development experts of Hamedan Province during a snowball sampling process. The data were collected by the semistructured interviews. The data collection was done by faceto- face interviews, after the interview questions guide was determined. The theoretical saturation was attained ...

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