what is meant by a cannibalized product in economic terms?
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Usually, when something is cannabilized, parts are taken off of it to fix other products that use the same components.  So, if I had a bad refridgerator with spare parts on to fix another not-so bad fridge, I'd cannibalize parts off of one to fix another.
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The classes are:\n\nConsumable: things that can only be used once (fuel, ammunition)\n\nExpendable: Things which can be used more than once but but will rapidly become 'used up' (such as a ream of printer paper).\n\nNon-expendable: Generally low-cost items that do not need to be accounted for (such as clipboards and staplers)\n\nDurable - things which are not expected to wear out anytime soon and are accountable items (such as a screwdriver).
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if you mean fair trade goods and coffee it hopefully means that whoever is buying it is making sure the producers are not mired in poverty and being oppressed in making the product.  That the producers of the item make a fair living wage (to eat and feed their kids and send the kids to school) and no one is being enslaved to create the product.
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Since no has taken a stab at this yet, I'll try:\n\n  As an experiment, food was first cooked (to kill germs)\nand then stored in air-tight bottles. It was taken aboard an \nEnglish ship. After a couple of months the bottle was opened\nand the food was found not to have spoiled.\n  A sheet metal worker found out about this, and thought \nabout storing food in cans instead. James Burke discusses \nthis in one of the Connections Programs. I've included a \nlink in the sources part.\n  There is no reason the surface area of the can would vary\nbetween now and then unless the cans were first made with \na square bottom. I don't believe it was.
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I read it as:\n\nHow does using the natural products (i.e. oil, crops) that a less developed nation has (naturally) by a big company effect the less developed nation?  Is it wrong for the big guy to do this to the little guy?  How does it effect the little guy?  Is it fair for either side?
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Cannibalism would probably do the trick.
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It's burned or kept for "research purposes".\n\nMakes me think of Soylent Green!
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Maybe you're trying to say: \ndis·posa·bili·ty n. \ndis·pos·a·ble   \nDesigned to be disposed of after use: disposable diapers; disposable razors. \n\nRemaining to a person after taxes have been deducted: disposable income. \nFree for use; available: Every disposable piece of equipment was sent to the fire.
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The meat from pig.\nPORK
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It is a waste of food... some of the food goes back to the vendors (like bread, potato chips, etc) where they try to resell it in outlet stores, or they donate it to charities.\n\nHigh spoilage foods such as milk, meat and perishables go into the trash ...meats are put down a disposal. Sometimes, tallow (grease) companies and farmers are contracted to pick up the spoiled produce to be recycled into fertilizer or fed as pig slop.\n\nBoxed foods are destroyed in a compactor and the store gets credit for disposing of them.
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I think you have to eat flesh to be a cannibal. I actually think that eating any meat makes you a cannibal. That's why I'm a vegetarian, but anyway.
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It's the rough surface that give the gas a purchase upon which to release.  And you want something more economical than candy?  OK.
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Indifference Curves\n\nThere are several economic concepts that I want you to understand before you end this course. Although this is not an economics course, I believe it is really important for anyone who is going to deal with commerce to understand these basic facts. In this course we will begin by talking about what are called "indifference curves". We will then move on to talk about preferences and prices. After we understand these characteristics of an individual consumer, we will move on to see how they combine to produce what is called "the demand curve". From there we will move to discuss the economics of supplying products and what is called "the supply curve". We will learn about changes in quantity of demand, changes in quantity of supply and the very different concepts of changes in demand and changes in supply.\n\nUsing Graphs\n\nThis work will, of course, involve us in using numbers since economics is about numbers, but many of the arguments can be understood by using graphs at the same time that we use numbers and that is where we will begin. The first graph we look at represents an individual indifference curve. The two axes of this graph represent two different commodities, goods or things that a consumer could have. One of them is Money In the Pocket, which we show along the y-axis. The other, just to be concrete, is Hamburgers In the Belly, which we show along the x-axis. A particular individual starts out with a certain amount of money in his pocket as shown at Point A, let’s say twenty dollars. This person is indifferent between having twenty dollars and no hamburgers in his belly and having eighteen dollars in his pocket and one hamburger in his belly. That other situation is shown as the point labeled "B".\n\nWhat does this mean? It means that if we offer to sell him a hamburger for a price less than two dollars, he will like this. We show such an alternative by the point labeled "C". If he moved from Point A to Point C, he would be keeping to the right, or above, his indifference curve, and this is generally taken to mean that he would prefer that situation. On the other hand, if we offer to sell him a hamburger for three dollars, we would be inviting him to move to the point labeled "D". This is to the left, or below, his indifference curve and presumably he would not prefer it.\n\nThe specific example I’ve given here is of a kind where motion is possible only in one direction. That is, the customer may increase the number of hamburgers in his belly by giving money to a retailer, but if the hamburgers were to be somehow removed from his belly, it’s unlikely that anyone would give him back the money.\n\nWe can learn more from looking at this curve. The line, for example from Point A to Point B, has a slope. This slope is determined by the amount of money that has to be paid for one hamburger, in this case we say one dollar. So the slope of this curve, if we view it in the normal sense, is one dollar per hamburger. This means that the indifference curve for some other products, for example a potato chip, would rise much more slowly, since no one is going to pay a dollar for an individual potato chip. On the other hand, the indifference curve for a lobster dinner would rise much more steeply because people would, presumably, be willing to pay quite a lot more for a lobster dinner.\n\nIn Figure 1, I have this with pocket money on the vertical axis and Hamburgers In the Belly on the horizontal axis so that the slope of the curve exactly corresponds to the price of hamburgers. Those of you who have studied calculus will realize that this is a downhill slope and its actual calculation produces a negative number. So to be strictly accurate, we have to say that the unit price of the goods represented on the horizontal axis is given by the negative of the slope of the curve. This is represented by the equation P = -D M/D G.\n\nStates\n\nTo come b
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Well, it depends.  In food, it means it is past it's expiration for freshness and shouldn't be consumed.  If you mean as used as a description of a person it means that they are given anything they desire whether or not they have earned or deserved it in an excessive manner (materialistic).  Usually these people have unnatural expectations that will never be satisified AND a spirit of entitlement that will alienate themselves from the rest of society.  Sad really.
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% change in quantity that consumer is willing to buy, divided by % change in income (assuming that the price of good is held constant). \n\nTells you how much impact do changes in income have on the demand. If less than 1, it is called inelastic, and there is little change in demand; is larger that 1, - elastic and high changes.
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"Further my friends each other's net work of food is each other."\n\nDude, sounds like cannibalism to me.
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It limits competition. Meaning people might have to pay more for less, because another country make the cheaper and better version of the product. Although it is used to help support the domestic economy.