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Series
IMF working paper volume 12/182
Publisher
International Monetary Fund
Pub. Date
2012
Language
English
Author
Series
World Bank working paper volume no. 90
Publisher
World Bank
Pub. Date
c2007
Language
English
Author
Publisher
Portfolio
Pub. Date
2005.
Language
English
Description
"What are the financial and emotional pressures and social forces that drive product choices? What are the benefits that qualify a premium-price product or service for mass acceptance? And how can an established producer create a successful mass luxury brand?" "In Trading Up, a world-class team of consultants explores these questions and shows how companies create premium brands that appeal to the mass-market consumer. The book is teeming with ideas...
Author
Publisher
B&H Pub. Group
Pub. Date
[2012]
Language
English
Description
A pastor's wife recounts her family's humorous and inspiring experiences while conducting a seven-month experiment to reduce their dependence on material consumption by selecting seven areas of excess and making seven decisions to combat it.
Author
Publisher
Princeton University Press
Language
English
Description
Examines the economic growth of the United States since the Civil War, arguing that the rate of growth between 1870 and 1970 cannot be repeated and that a number of issues are further stagnating the already slow rate of productivity growth.
"In the century after the Civil War, an economic revolution improved the American standard of living in ways previously unimaginable. Electric lighting, indoor plumbing, home appliances, motor vehicles, air travel,...
Author
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Pub. Date
2013
Language
English
Description
"Currency values, prices, consumption and incomes are at the heart of the economic performance of all countries. In order to make a meaningful comparison between one economy and another, economists routinely make use of purchasing power parity (PPP) exchange rates, but whilst PPP rates are widely used and well understood they take a lot of effort to produce and suffer from publication delays. Currencies, Commodities and Consumption analyses the strengths...