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The consumer monoculture (2003)

Norberg-Hodge, Helena

Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd

International journal of consumer studies 27 (2003), S. 0

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ISSN: 1470-6431

Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Thema: Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Notizen: ‘Development’ and the globalization of consumption is leading to a breakdown of biological and cultural diversity, erosion of food security, an increase in violence and devastation for the global biosphere. We urgently need to shift away from economic globalization and homogenization towards localization and diversification.

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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1470-6431.2003.00316.x

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Biotechnology in the agricultural sector: a challenge to consumer welfare (2003)

Smith, David E. ; Skalnik, J. Robert

Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd

International journal of consumer studies 27 (2003), S. 0

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ISSN: 1470-6431

Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Thema: Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Notizen: The promises and pitfalls of agricultural biotechnology have long been debated. The public is often thwarted because consumers frequently perceive as risky, and therefore undesirable, those advances that they do not understand or of which they are unaware. A comparative study of the introduction of a biotechnology innovation in the United States (US) and in the European Union (EU) is a case in point. In the US, despite concerns of consumer protection and environmental groups that the use of genetically produced growth hormone in milk-producing cows will adversely impact the safety of the milk supply, scientific evidence and governmental findings appear to indicate that milk from treated cows is identical in quality, taste and nutritional value to milk from untreated cows. Experience to date in the US demonstrates some consumer resistance to milk from those cows that have received the growth hormone, which typically leads to a 10% increase in milk production. In fact, if there is no perceived differentiation between the two forms of milk, the issue offers little choice to consumers at large, and may result in economic benefit only to selected dairy farmers, as well as the producers of the genetically produced growth hormone. This situation in the US is an example of dysfunctional technology transfer, with perceived desirable benefits to a few, and perceived undesirable benefits to society-at-large. The information suggests that the US may have reacted hastily in approving the use of bovine growth hormone in milk-producing cows. The EU has taken a divergent approach by enacting moratoriums against its use. The differences identified in this study, contrasting responses to the bovine somatotrophin issue in the US and EU – driven in part by general consumer attitudes towards biotechnology – may provide insights into the issues and challenges that will be faced by both advocates and opponents of global proliferation of certain advances in biotechnology.

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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1470-6431.2003.00318.x

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Changes in food provision in Russian households experiencing perestroika (2003)

Ekström, Karin M. ; Ekström, Marianne P. ; Potapova, Marina ; [weitere]

Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd

International journal of consumer studies 27 (2003), S. 0

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ISSN: 1470-6431

Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Thema: Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Notizen: The purpose of this article is to describe how households in Novgorod the Great, Russia, deal with food provision in everyday life. The study focuses on changes experienced in food provision and consumption in Russian society, in order to illustrate how households respond to the transformation towards a market economy. The study reflects women's perspective on food provision. Students from Novgorod the Great visited 105 households and asked the women in the household to answer a questionnaire. Results from the study show that in order to cope with changes in society related to economic reforms, Russian households had changed both their food consumption and food production patterns. There was no big difference between urban and rural households. Nearly all of the households were self-sufficient in the provision of vegetables and potatoes. Many households had a ‘dacha’ (plot), where they produced most of what they needed. Among the changes experienced during recent years (i.e. during the end of the 1990s), a decade after perestroika was initiated, households mentioned the rise in food prices and the decrease of income. Households reported that they consumed less fruit and/or meat. Some households also mentioned that the quality of nourishment had decreased, thereby indicating lower general quality, lower nutrition value, or less healthy foodstuffs.

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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1470-6431.2003.00322.x

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Localization: A Global Manifesto (2003)

McGregor, Sue

Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd

International journal of consumer studies 27 (2003), S. 0

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ISSN: 1470-6431

Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Thema: Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Notizen: Localization: A Global Manifesto. Ed. by Colin Hines (2000). London. Published by Earthscan Publishing. ISBN 1-85383-612-5 (softcover). In Canada, the book is available from for Can$29.00. In the UK, the book is available at for £10.99 or earthinfo@earthscan.co.uk

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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1046/j.1470-6431.2003.03140.x

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What Can Africa Learn from Asian Development Successes and Failures? (2003)

Klasen, Stephan

Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Review of income and wealth 49 (2003), S. 0

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ISSN: 1475-4991

Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Thema: Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Notizen: Book reviewed in this article:Peter Lawrence and Colin Thirtle (eds.), Africa and Asia in Comparative Economic Perspective

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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-4991.00098

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Announcements (2003)

Oxford, UK and Boston, USA : Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Review of income and wealth 49 (2003), S. 0

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ISSN: 1475-4991

Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Thema: Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Notizen: Announcements in this article:International Association for Research in Income and Wealth: Twenty-Eighth General Conference, 2004, Cork, Ireland, 22–28 AugustTravel Grant for the IARIW 28th General Conference in Cork, Ireland 22–28 August, 2004Notice of Availability of Back StockInformation for Contributors

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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/1475-4991.00099

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MICROBUSINESS ACCOUNTING AND MACROECONOMIC ACCOUNTING: THE LIMITS TO CONSISTENCY (1986)

Postner, Harry H.

Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Review of income and wealth 32 (1986), S. 0

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ISSN: 1475-4991

Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Thema: Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Notizen: The paper is concerned with analyzing the consistency problem that arises when the macroenterprise sector of a nation's accounting system is put on a microdata foundation. This foundation is composed of sets of microbusiness accounts, after some appropriate rearrangements and reclassifications. We pose the question: can the macroenterprise sector accounts be regarded as a consolidation of (observed) microbusiness accounts? The answer is positive from a purely conceptual viewpoint, but negative from a statistical viewpoint which preserves the decision-making records of microbusiness units. The latter phenomenon is referred to as the limits to (statistical) consistency while attempting to maintain the viability of a national accounting system.The analysis proceeds by exploiting the structural properties of market transactions matrices for a nation's economy. The results are sufficiently general to encompass the case where the transaction matrices are initially characterized by both sectoral discrepancies and transaction flow category discrepancies. In this general context it is shown that the statistical inconsistency potentially resulting from the replacement of the macroenterprise sector by an aggregation of microbusiness units has certain properties with economic meaning. This leads to a discussion that explains the ultimate rationale of statistical inconsistency: the fact that different microeconomic decision units may have different views and knowledge of common market transactions. The paper concludes with some implications for future research that appear to follow from the historical development of the subject matter.

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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4991.1986.tb00538.x

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MARKET TRANSACTIONS IN THE NATIONAL ACCOUNTS (1986)

Lützel, Heinrich

Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Review of income and wealth 32 (1986), S. 0

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ISSN: 1475-4991

Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Thema: Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Notizen: This paper explains the treatment of market and non-market transactions in the national accounts. Different possibilities of defining these two types of transactions are discussed, and it becomes evident that a strong restriction of national accounts to market transactions only cannot be seriously taken into consideration. On the other hand, a system of supplementary tables is proposed which shows the market and the non-market transactions as such. Examples of tables of this kind are presented for the Federal Republic of Germany.

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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4991.1986.tb00536.x

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THE CONCEPT OF MACROECONOMIC COST AND ITS UTILITY (1986)

Marczewski, Jean

Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Review of income and wealth 32 (1986), S. 0

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ISSN: 1475-4991

Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Thema: Wirtschaftswissenschaften

Notizen: The proposed “Variable Domestic Cost” includes all net payments by sectors belonging to the productive system (enterprises, credit institutions and government) to all other sectors (households, private non-profit organizations and the rest of the world). Compared with the rate of growth of demand, represented by Gross Domestic Marketable Product at current prices, the rate of growth of VDC per unit produced forms the “profitability function of the nation.” Profitability is positively related to the rate of economic growth and to the price/cost relation. A relative deceleration of unit VDC stimulates economic growth, which enlarges the positive difference between price and cost, and that, in turn, accelerates economic growth. Inversely, a relative acceleration of unit VDC brakes economic growth, while a slowdown in production raises unit costs and depresses prices. The resulting fall in profitability stops economic growth.The main explanatory variables of demand are World trade, monetary and fiscal policy and import prices. The main components of VDC are enterprises' wage costs, social benefits minus social contributions and the government wage bill minus direct taxes payable by households. The fact that in West Germany all these unit costs were increasing more slowly than in France explains why Geman economic growth, much slower than French before 1975, outpaced it after that year, achieving a lower rate of inflation, a larger positive balance of trade and a higher appreciation of the national currency.The concept of VDC is a useful contribution to the theories of inflation and of economic fluctuations and provides a possible explanation of structural unemployment. Maintaining VDC at a lowest possible level should be considered a major object of economic policy.

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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4991.1986.tb00526.x

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SPECIAL ISSUE ON THE REVIEW OF THE UNITED NATIONS SYSTEM OF NATIONAL ACCOUNTS (1986)

Oxford, UK : Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Review of income and wealth 32 (1986), S. 0

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ISSN: 1475-4991

Quelle: Blackwell Publishing Journal Backfiles 1879-2005

Thema: Wirtschaftswissenschaften

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URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1475-4991.1986.tb00532.x

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