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Fortunately, what motivates most significant advances in knowledge is not profit, but the pursuit of knowledge itself.
The resulting economies of scale allowed suppliers to shift from low-volume, high-margin solutions to high-volume, low-margin
profit
models.
But even when a crisis, like a cyber attack or an epidemic, erupts unexpectedly, the ensuing market disruption usually lasts only as long as it takes for investors to reassess discount rates and future
profit
streams.
But in Africa, this type of journalism has historically kept the media honest by forcing owners to focus more on public good than on
profit.
In 1970, the radical left-wing Italian underground periodical Sinistra Proletaria carried an article entitled “The Process of Globalization of Capitalist Society,” which was a description of IBM, an “organization which presents itself as a totality and controls all its activities towards the goal of
profit
and ‘globalizes’ all activity in the productive process.”
If you measure
profit
by marking to market, then
profit
is what the market thinks it will be.
Then they discovered that it had all been a mistake, more or less wiped out their shareholders, and used taxpayer money to trade their way through to new levels of reported
profit.
Sellers of fakery manufacture information for money or for political profit; there are always eager buyers among the credulous, prurient, or vindictive.
Whereas readers, listeners, and viewers were customers paying for some commodity, commercial electronic media learned how to
profit
by transacting directly with vendors while reducing us, and our data, to a passive commodity at the heart of the transaction.
A buyer who put the engine to work in, say, a textile factory could think of his
profit
stream as a just reward for having taken the risk of purchasing the machine and for the innovation of coupling it to a spinning jenny or a mechanical loom.
By contrast, Google cannot credibly argue that the capital generating its
profit
stream was produced entirely privately.
Today’s laws, however, allow only universities and industry, which supply basic knowledge and technology, to
profit
from their contributions; patients, who supply tissue, may not be compensated.
Instead of allowing donors to claim individual compensation for their tissue, a tax would be imposed every time a tissue-based application actually yields a
profit.
The immediate
profit
offered by Mittal was enough.
Profit
Sharing NowNEW YORK – At the British Labour Party’s annual conference in Liverpool this month, the shadow chancellor of the exchequer, John McDonnell, proposed a profit-sharing scheme that would grant workers equity in the firms where they are employed.
To that end, it would be better to pursue a fractional form of
profit
sharing, rather than large-scale nationalization.
Black markets exist any time there is a
profit
to be made.
My discussions of secular stagnation have all emphasized a variety of structural factors, including inequality, high
profit
shares, changes in relative prices, and global saving patterns.
After all, steadily rising property prices mean that, if a borrower defaults, the property can be resold at a
profit.
We used these data to estimate the extent to which large non-financial corporations’ profits exceeded typical annual sectoral
profit
performance since 1995.
The simple theory of
profit
maximization assumes away the conflicting interests of diverse shareholders.
With Chinese steel and cement firms suffering from overcapacity, Chinese construction firms will
profit
from the new investment.
Automated or otherwise technology-enabled services can increase
profit
margins for companies, while representing for users cheaper, more convenient, or more reliable options than those produced exclusively by humans.
If ITER could really solve the planet’s energy problem, €10 billion would be a negligible investment – less than the net
profit
of the oil company TOTAL (€13 billion in 2006) and equivalent to ten days of waging the war in Iraq.
Clearly, the regime is preparing to
profit
from any rebuilding assistance that comes its way.
Studies such as this are rare, because the doctors who
profit
from the practices being investigated do not welcome independent reviews that might demolish their trade.
But today two-thirds of American adults get some of their news from social media, which rest on a business model that lends itself to outside manipulation and where algorithms can easily be gamed for
profit
or malign purposes.
The “free” services offered by social media are based on a
profit
model in which users’ information and attention are actually the products, which are sold to advertisers.
By its nature, the social-media
profit
model can be weaponized by states and non-state actors alike.
A market economy must rest on the economic principle of
profit
and loss.
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