Participatory economics

1. What is Social and Behavioral Science and how does it relate to Personal and Consumer Finance? Social and Behavioral Science is the study of the society and people’s behaviors. You can also study people and how they interact in society. If you are studying people’s behavior you might want to study people’s spending habits. You could also study how the society as a whole spends their money. By studying people’s spending habits you might also see how that can affect the state of the economy. In…

Frances B. Menjor Macroeconomics October 11, 2017 The Night and Day Economic Comparisons of Sierra Leone and France. In the world that we live in today there are various countries with different cultures, government policies and economic outcomes. In 2016 I traveled to West Africa and France and immediately notice a drastic difference in the development of the two countries. Upon arrival into France a person will notice its many amenities and attractions. Frances is a rich…

variables are divided into two groups, fund and country-level variables. Fund-level variables include size, age, fees (annual charges, initial charges, and redemption charges), management structure, and management tenure. Company-level variables include economic development, financial development, investor protection, and familiarity as explained by Abdel-Kader and Kuang (2007, p.26). Fund Attributes A number of fund performance studies consider fund-specific attributes as potential determinants…

Samantha Strauss Mrs. Dodd AP Language 18 September 2017 David and Goliath An underdog is defined as a member of society that is not expected to win a contest or has a social or political disadvantage. These people are sometimes looked at as hopeless or have no chance at winning, and when they do win people credit it to luck. In Malcolm Gladwell’s bestselling book David and Goliath he studies the science behind underdogs and how disadvantages can be turned into advantages. There is in fact a…

of the largest, most profitable companies in the world. Since their inception, they have been using different economic strategies to dominate their particular market. According to Michael Porter, competition in the industry, bargaining power of suppliers, bargaining power of consumers, the threat of new entrants into the market, and the threat of substitute products (1) are all economic forces that impact companies like Nike. For years, Nike has used various business strategies and marketing…

three major changes that are currently impacting businesses are the U.S usage of economic sanctions, bank consolidation, and climate change on tourism. One major change that is currently impacting businesses is the United State’s over usage of economic sanctions in order to get another country to abide the law or to punish that country. An economic sanction is a foreign policy strategy where a country ceases economic trade and financial relations with another country for security or foreign…

ecological changes and political-economic forces are displayed in Figure I (Scoones, 1998). Figure I displays the relationship between livelihood, organizations/institutions, and sustainability. The model is used to derive five types of analyses. The first analysis that can be derived from this model is the contextual analysis of trends, conditions, and assessment of policy setting in terms of social differentiation, demography, Argo-ecology, climate, terms of trade, macro-economic conditions,…

(Syed, 2009), in case of Islamic finance system, the system is more stable as there is inherent in the matching of assets and liabilities. As we can see the arrangement of assets and liabilities are matched through profit sharing. The liabilities of economic units are fully repaid with an underlying income. The payments of the banks and financial institutions are in the form of dividend which has to be…

strategy will focus on low-end, traditional, and high-end segments, offering customers differentiated products with appealling prices. Based on our objectives, our company will allocate our resources to create a competitive advantage through building economic of scale and encouraging innovations. Description of the Targed Markets Traditional Market: The market is the second biggest market with a share of 32.4% in round zero.…

According to Joseph Stieglitz, the United States government should offer free high school education from money collected from general tax covers that will cost $300 billion. To begin with, in the past education was free for public colleges and this is because of the Morrill Act of 1862. At the time the number students who could go to colleges and universities without paying tuition was relatively small. However, as years went by the number of students attending public colleges increased the…