Keyword: technology

Eggs for Sale (4/14/2000)

Selling of renewable human eggs to infertile women may be mutually beneficial, but are fraught with ethical overstone.

Keywords: broker, donation, donor, egg banks, eggs, fee, fertility, IVF in vitro fertilization, match, sperm, technology

Geography Is Destiny? (2/16/2001)

Landlocked tropical countries are handicapped by high transportation and health care costs and scarcity of transferable canned technology because of their geography.

Keywords: access to markets, agricultural, Brunei, geography, Hong Kong, infrastructure, landlocked, malaria, Singapore, technological progress, technology, transportation costs, tropical zone

The Economics of Superstars (9/26/2000)

Joint consumption technology combined with imperfect substitution of consumer preferences can lead to outsized rewards to a few superstars in mass entertainment businesses.

Keywords: box office appeal, consumer preferences, duplication, income distribution, joint consumption, non-rival goods, scale economy, superstars, technology

The Rise of Chicken (9/7/2005)

By vertically integrating the chicken business and applying quality control and standardization to all the steps from production to marketing, Tyson Foods has brought better and cheaper chicken to consumers, higher wages to workers and fatter returns to shareholders in a once low-profit commodity business.

Keywords: brands, chicken, mechanization, profit margin, standardization, technology, Tyson Foods, vertical integration, wages

Value vs. Weight (9/8/2000)

The weight per dollar of the growing national output has been decreasing due to the embodiment of more advanced technology in the physical product and the higher-valued service components bundled with it.

Keywords: chip, gold, microprocessor, miniaturization, technology, utility, value, weight