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51Squinch report — is a direct marketing tool used to analyse the results of a mailing. The name is a contraction of sales per square inch, but it is more than this. To perform the analysis the page number and space used per product, including pictures and… …
52Minimum Efficient Scale — The smallest amount of production a company can achieve while still taking full advantage of economies of scale with regards to supplies and costs. In classical economics, the minimum efficient scale is defined as the lowest production point at… …
53Shutdown (economics) — In economics, shutdown occurs if marginal revenue is below average variable cost at the profit maximizing output. Producing anything would not generate returns significant enough to offset any fixed cost and part of the variable cost. By not… …
54Academic Programs International — API, Academic Programs International, is an independent study abroad provider based in the US. Its locations include Costa Rica, France, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Mexico, Poland, Spain, and the United Kingdom. API procures housing and educational… …
55Intermittent energy source — An intermittent energy source is any source of energy that is not continuously available due to some factor outside direct control. The intermittent source may be quite predictable, for example, tidal power, but cannot be dispatched to meet the… …
56Business and Industry Review — ▪ 1999 Introduction Overview Annual Average Rates of Growth of Manufacturing Output, 1980 97, Table Pattern of Output, 1994 97, Table Index Numbers of Production, Employment, and Productivity in Manufacturing Industries, Table (For Annual… …
57Intermittent power source — [ Erie Shores Wind Farm monthly output over a two year period] An intermittent power source is a source of electric power generation that may be uncontrollably variable or more intermittent than conventional power sources, and therefore non… …
58Economic Affairs — ▪ 2006 Introduction In 2005 rising U.S. deficits, tight monetary policies, and higher oil prices triggered by hurricane damage in the Gulf of Mexico were moderating influences on the world economy and on U.S. stock markets, but some other… …
59Industrial Review — ▪ 1994 Introduction The period since 1990 was proving a difficult time for the older industrialized economies, which had suffered from prolonged recession at home, and also for the previously centrally planned economies of Eastern Europe… …
60Organic composition of capital — Part of a series on Marxism …
