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NERA was founded as National Economic Research Associates on 10 April 1961 by noted economists Dr. Jules Joskow and Dr. Irwin Stelzer.
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However, NERA and NxRA are lighter and completely safe to handle ( and safe for nearby infantry ), can theoretically be placed on any part of the vehicle, and can be packaged in multiple spaced-out layers if necessary.
The inner spaces are filled with NERA.
However, tandem-charges are useful only against SLERA ( self-limiting explosive reactive armor ) types of reactive armor, not against the NERA ( non-energetic reactive armor ) and NxRA ( non-explosive reactive armor ) reactive armor types, since their inner liner is not explosive itself, thus able to withstand the small forward warhead of tandem-charge attack.
Currently located on Stratford Place are the Botswana and Tanzanian High Commissions in the UK ( the equivalent of Embassies ), a Kabbalah Centre, and NERA Economic Consulting.
NERA and industries
Today NERA has evolved into a large, geographically diverse firm working with clients in 120 countries across dozens of industries.
NERA and areas
On 1 February 1983, NERA was acquired by Marsh & McLennan Companies, a global professional services firm providing advice and solutions in the areas of risk, strategy, and human capital.
NERA and Analysis
NERA has been ranked the No. 1 firm for economic consulting on the Vault. com 2013, 2012, 2011, 2010, and 2009 lists of top consulting firms, ahead of competitors such as Charles River Associates, Analysis Group, Cornerstone Research, and The Brattle Group.
NERA and Research
Major competitors include Charles River Associates, Cornerstone Research, Compass Lexecon, and NERA Economic Consulting.
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The most common type is explosive reactive armour ( ERA ), but variants include self-limiting explosive reactive armour ( SLERA ), non-energetic reactive armour ( NERA ), non-explosive reactive armour ( NxRA ), and electric reactive armour.
Unlike ERA and SLERA, NERA and NxRA modules can withstand multiple hits, but a second hit in exactly the same location will still penetrate.
NERA and NxRA operate similarly to explosive reactive armour, but without the explosive liner.
* NERA Economic Consulting, a consulting firm.
NERA Economic Consulting is a global firm applying economic, finance, and quantitative principles to complex business and legal challenges.
" NERA was the first consulting firm dedicated to methodically applying rigorous microeconomic thought to litigation and regulatory matters.
NERA is headquartered in White Plains, New York with over 20 offices across North America, Europe, and Asia Pacific.
NERA has 11 offices in North America: Austin, Boston, Chicago, Denver, Los Angeles, New York City, Philadelphia, San Francisco, Toronto, Washington DC, White Plains.
NERA has 7 offices in Europe: Brussels, Frankfurt, Geneva, London, Madrid, Paris, Rome.
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The AMPAS was originally conceived by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer studio boss Louis B. Mayer as a professional honorary organization to help improve the film industry ’ s image and help mediate labor disputes.
The International Encyclopedia of the Social Sciences defines psychological altruism as " a motivational state with the goal of increasing another ’ s welfare ".
Psychological altruism is contrasted with psychological egoism, which refers to the motivation to increase one ’ s own welfare.
One way is a sincere expression of Christian love, " motivated by a powerful feeling of security, strength, and inner salvation, of the invincible fullness of one ’ s own life and existence ".
Another way is merely " one of the many modern substitutes for love, ... nothing but the urge to turn away from oneself and to lose oneself in other people ’ s business.
* David Firestone-When Romney ’ s Reach Exceeds His Grasp-Mitt Romney quotes the song
" Swift extends the metaphor to get in a few jibes at England ’ s mistreatment of Ireland, noting that " For this kind of commodity will not bear exportation, and flesh being of too tender a consistence, to admit a long continuance in salt, although perhaps I could name a country, which would be glad to eat up our whole nation without it.
George Wittkowsky argued that Swift ’ s main target in A Modest Proposal was not the conditions in Ireland, but rather the can-do spirit of the times that led people to devise a number of illogical schemes that would purportedly solve social and economic ills.
In response, Swift ’ s Modest Proposal was " a burlesque of projects concerning the poor ", that were in vogue during the early 18th century.
Critics differ about Swift ’ s intentions in using this faux-mathematical philosophy.
Charles K. Smith argues that Swift ’ s rhetorical style persuades the reader to detest the speaker and pity the Irish.
Swift ’ s specific strategy is twofold, using a " trap " to create sympathy for the Irish and a dislike of the narrator who, in the span of one sentence, " details vividly and with rhetorical emphasis the grinding poverty " but feels emotion solely for members of his own class.
Swift ’ s use of gripping details of poverty and his narrator ’ s cool approach towards them create " two opposing points of view " that " alienate the reader, perhaps unconsciously, from a narrator who can view with ' melancholy ' detachment a subject that Swift has directed us, rhetorically, to see in a much less detached way.
Once the children have been commodified, Swift ’ s rhetoric can easily turn " people into animals, then meat, and from meat, logically, into tonnage worth a price per pound ".
Swift uses the proposer ’ s serious tone to highlight the absurdity of his proposal.
In making his argument, the speaker uses the conventional, text book approved order of argument from Swift ’ s time ( which was derived from the Latin rhetorician Quintilian ).
James Johnson argued that A Modest Proposal was largely influenced and inspired by Tertullian ’ s Apology: a satirical attack against early Roman persecution of Christianity.
Johnson notes Swift ’ s obvious affinity for Tertullian and the bold stylistic and structural similarities between the works A Modest Proposal and Apology.
He reminds readers that " there is a gap between the narrator ’ s meaning and the text ’ s, and that a moral-political argument is being carried out by means of parody ".
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Historians and economists have often praised Jenkins for presiding over the transformation in Britain ’ s fiscal and current account positions towards the end of the 1960s.
There was a concern ( illustrated in C. P. Snow ’ s Strangers and Brothers series of novels ) that technical and scientific expertise was mushrooming, to a point at which the " good all-rounder " culture of the administrative civil servant with a classics or other arts degree could no longer properly engage with it: as late as 1963, for example, the Treasury had just 19 trained economists.
" Modern economists call it ' rent seeking ', but throughout recorded history, skilled crafts and professions have tried to raise their members ’ incomes by using the power of the state to limit entry.
The former, traditionally founded on a merely speculative psychology, have proved unrealistic and frankly wrong as descriptive models of economic behaviour ( therefore not applicable for normative purposes either ); however, they are liable to be corrected resorting to the new empirically based economic psychology, which turns quite other than the philosophers ’ psychology that economists have used until yesterday.
The neoliberal economists around Ludwig Erhard could draw on the theories they had developed in the 1930s and 1940s and contribute to West Germany ’ s reconstruction after the Second World War.
Supply-side economists have less to say on the effects of deficits, and sometimes cite Robert Barro ’ s work that states that rational economic actors will buy bonds in sufficient quantities to reduce long term interest rates.
Canadian economists primarily define and value the Canadian dollar in terms of the United States dollar, and thus by observing how the Canadian dollar floats in terms of the US dollar, foreign-exchange economists can indirectly observe internal behaviours and patterns in the US economy that could not be seen by direct observation ( Canada ’ s primary foreign-trade relationship is with the United States ).
The plan had been quietly prepared in May 1973 by economists who opposed Salvador Allende ’ s government, with the help from a group of economists the press were calling the Chicago Boys, because they were predominantly alumni of the University of Chicago.
There are, of course, practical problems in implementing either of these economists ’ approaches.
For nearly 80 years, economists have analyzed intertemporal decisions using the discounted utility ( DU ) model, which assumes that people evaluate the pleasures and pains resulting from a decision in much the same way that financial markets evaluate losses and gains, exponentially ‘ discounting ’ the value of outcomes according to how delayed they are in time.
Industrial relations was formed with a strong problem-solving orientation that rejected both the classical economists ’ laissez faire solutions to labor problems and the Marxist solution of class revolution.
The minority view is represented by Post Keynesian economists, all of whom accept Keynes ’ s fundamental critique of the neoclassical concept of long-run equilibrium, and some of whom think The General Theory has yet to be properly understood and repays further study.
While these behavior patterns are generally dismissed as ‘ fallacious ’ or ‘ illogical ’ by economists, neuroeconomic researchers are trying to determine the biological reasons for these behaviors.
The author of the study, Dennis Bruce, went on to testify at the Finance Committee ’ s Public Hearings on Income Trusts in February 2007 and issued a press release following his first day of testimony entitled " Independent economists discredit govt tax leakage claims " which outlines the numerous gross errors that were made by Finance Minister Jim Flaherty and the government in asserting the claim of $ 500 million in annual tax leakage.
Lomborg countered criticism of the panel membership by stating that " Sachs disparaged the Consensus ‘ dream team ’ because it only consisted of economists.
Working groups from various parts of the world sent papers to Volf ’ s desk, and the text he prepared on the basis of those papers was discussed, amended, and finally adopted at a conference in 1990 by a wide array of Christian leaders, theologians, philosophers, ethicists, economists, development practitioners, and political scientists ( Gerechtigkeit, Geist und Schöpfung.
WRI is an independent, non-partisan and nonprofit organization with a staff of more than 100 scientists, economists, policy experts, business analysts, statistical analysts, mapmakers, and communicators developing and promoting policies with the intention of protecting the Earth and improving people ’ s lives.
For neoclassical economists Smith ’ s central message is the Invisible hand mentioned deep in the books and seen as a proto-neoclassical statement of the neoclassical General equilibrium theory:
It was only in the 20th century that the relative sophistication found in Smith ’ s work would be reformulated by economists such as Friedrich Hayek, Joseph Schumpeter, and Milton Friedman ( of the Chicago School of economics of the 1960s and 1970s ), resulting in a recipe for a free-market economy:
Mitchell ’ s teachers included economists Thorstein Veblen and J. L. Laughlin and philosopher John Dewey.
" The paper trail of commission meeting transcripts and amended regulations raises the question of whether Nevada ’ s mining regulators have fallen prey to what economists call ' regulatory capture ' — the term used to describe an agency that acts in the interest of the industry it was established to regulate.
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