1.4.2: Price indices
This unit looks at a wide variety of ways of comparing prices and the construction of a price index. You will also look at the Retail Price Index (RPI) and the Consumer Price Index (CPI), indices used by the UK Government to calculate the percentage by which prices in general have risen over any given period. You wil also look at the important statistical and mathematical ideas that contribute to the construction of a price index.
Business, NGOs and the challenge of sustainability
Today's consumer driven culture is ecologically unsustainable; this fact poses a clear challenge to governments who must agree responses to climate change and other issues. But what role can business play? Jim Leape, Director General and Chief Executive of WWF International, explains how companies can help drive a shift to sustainability in their sectors and more broadly, the roles that NGOs can play in catalysing such a shift.
Rewiring the system
We are entering a new era of renewable energy generation, says Dr Michael Pollitt, where interactive networks, smart electricity meters and energy saving devices on consumer lights and heaters will help tackle climate change. This increased 'smartness' and functionality will also lead to the generation of new and exciting business models and the rise of energy service companies, Dr Pollitt explains.
Lecture 16 - 11/18/2010
Lecture 16
Introduction This unit looks at the role of innovation in the development of industries and considers how production costs change as sales increase and as new technology is introduced into the production process. It looks at the relation between consumer demand for a good and that good's price, and at how the relation between output and production costs in different markets can dramatically affect industry structure. In describing these issues, the unit introduces the range of activities that constitutes
1.2.3: A typical shopping basket
This unit looks at a wide variety of ways of comparing prices and the construction of a price index. You will also look at the Retail Price Index (RPI) and the Consumer Price Index (CPI), indices used by the UK Government to calculate the percentage by which prices in general have risen over any given period. You wil also look at the important statistical and mathematical ideas that contribute to the construction of a price index.
1.2.2: The price of a loaf these days
This unit looks at a wide variety of ways of comparing prices and the construction of a price index. You will also look at the Retail Price Index (RPI) and the Consumer Price Index (CPI), indices used by the UK Government to calculate the percentage by which prices in general have risen over any given period. You wil also look at the important statistical and mathematical ideas that contribute to the construction of a price index.
Learning outcomes
This unit looks at a wide variety of ways of comparing prices and the construction of a price index. You will also look at the Retail Price Index (RPI) and the Consumer Price Index (CPI), indices used by the UK Government to calculate the percentage by which prices in general have risen over any given period. You wil also look at the important statistical and mathematical ideas that contribute to the construction of a price index.
Scientific and Commercial Issues of genetic testing
Professor Wilkie looks at the Commercial and Scientific aspects surrounding the direct to consumer Genetic Testing
Body beautiful
Ben Barry, a PhD student at Cambridge Judge Business School, has conducted new research into the global consumer mind set. It shows that women are more likely to purchase a fashion product when they see a model who resembles them. It all began with that famous "Dove" campaign.
3. Farewell Information, Welcome Media (February 4, 2009)
Technology, computers, economics, business, internet, Google, participation, mobile technology, cell phones, cameras, blogs, consumers, Hulu, television, email, Kindle, failure, Second Life, Apple, Microsoft, consumer electronics, iphone, sensors, robot,
Climate Change: An update to August 2007 (Patricia Coleman Lecture)
Consumer and Applied Sciences Patricia Coleman Lecture, Presenter: Tim Flannery, Author of "The Future Eaters" and "The Weather Makers" Tuesday 7 August, 7:30pm.
1.7.3 What is proportion?
This unit looks at a wide variety of ways of comparing prices and the construction of a price index. You will also look at the Retail Price Index (RPI) and the Consumer Price Index (CPI), indices used by the UK Government to calculate the percentage by which prices in general have risen over any given period. You wil also look at the important statistical and mathematical ideas that contribute to the construction of a price index.
1.7: Some mathematical themes
This unit looks at a wide variety of ways of comparing prices and the construction of a price index. You will also look at the Retail Price Index (RPI) and the Consumer Price Index (CPI), indices used by the UK Government to calculate the percentage by which prices in general have risen over any given period. You wil also look at the important statistical and mathematical ideas that contribute to the construction of a price index.
Disorders Without Borders
18th Aubrey Lewis Lecture
Disorders Without Borders: the expanding scope of psychiatric practice.
Are some psychiatric disorders over-diagnosed and over medicated? Are doctors and psychiatrists too ready to diagnose depression, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder or personality disorder for variations in mood or conduct that would once have been considered part of the normal ups and downs of life? And does that have something to do with the fact that for each of these diagnoses, pharmaceut
Hard Sell - The Ethics of Marketing
In this controversial presentation, University of Adelaide marketing and consumer behaviour expert Professor Pascale Quester will dissect the many ethical dilemmas faced by marketers on a daily basis. She will also offer a variety of perspectives that could improve the morality of their decisions, and discuss the critical role to be played by ethical consumers.
Climate Change: An update to August 2007 (Patricia Coleman Lecture)
Consumer and Applied Sciences Patricia Coleman Lecture, Presenter: Tim Flannery, Author of "The Future Eaters" and "The Weather Makers"
Tuesday 7 August, 7:30pm.
Climate Change: An update to August 2007 (Special Lecture for School Students)
Consumer and Applied Sciences Patricia Coleman Lecture, Presenter: Tim Flannery, Author of "The Future Eaters" and "The Weather Makers", Tuesday 7 August, 5:30pm.
Climate Change: An update to August 2007 (Special Lecture for School Students)
Consumer and Applied Sciences Patricia Coleman Lecture, Presenter: Tim Flannery, Author of "The Future Eaters" and "The Weather Makers", Tuesday 7 August, 5:30pm.
The crisis of global capitalism: towards a new economic culture?
Manuel Castells draws on arguments from his book Communication Power in discussing the structural causes and implications of the 2008 economic crisis, and in claiming that we are moving, without much understanding, towards a new form of global capitalism The global crisis of capitalism that exploded in the Fall of 2008 is the most serious economic crisis since the Great Depression of the 1930s. It is rooted in the volatility of interdependent global financial markets resulting from deregulation,
