Progress towards economic consolidation

Measuring Economic Progress

Economists have been inquiring into the nature and causes of the wealth of nations for centuries,1 but the regular and systematic construction of official quantitative measures of relative economic progress is a phenomenon of recent decades. A key role in this transformation was played by Colin Clark, who held that ‘[c]omparisons of economic welfare between one community and another, one econom...

Economic Perspectives on Media Mergers and Consolidation

comparison of sexual attitudes towards family consolidation

men and women are manufacturers the main families and healthy family the most suitable background perfection and excellence of both the individual and society. in this study, the factors affecting sexual attitudes towards family bonds among faculty and staff in payame noor university, hamedan province was. research has sociological approach and survey method. data, inventory and multi-stage ran...

Discussion of Measuring Economic Progress

One of the strongest motives in life is the desire to ‘keep up with the Joneses’. In economic debate, this tendency is reflected in a concern with international rankings of various kinds. These rankings are frequently used to bolster a variety of spurious arguments. A typical form of the argument is ‘Australia has declined relative to country X on scale Y, and we should therefore adopt policy Z...

Progress towards quantum computation

One of the paradoxes of quantum theory is how little its strange foundations ob-trude into everyday life, even while supporting an ediice of chemistry and physics that explains the existence and properties of ordinary matter in exquisite detail. To marvel at the foundations themselves|in the form, say, of the two-slit experiment or the Einstein-Podolsky-Rosen eeect|one must generally visit a te...