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  2. Quotaism - Wikipedia

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    Leaving positions unfilled in state departments can have a negative effect on service delivery. This is a very serious concern when applied in police forces of countries with high crime figures. This can also lead to slow economic growth and social mobility pigeonholing. Quota systems can have a discriminative effect on minorities;

  3. Production quota - Wikipedia

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    A production quota is a goal for the production of a good. It is typically set by a government or an organization, and can be applied to an individual worker, firm, industry or country. Quotas can be set high to encourage production, or can be used to restrict production to support a certain price level. [1]

  4. Affirmative action - Wikipedia

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    By default, so is any other form of discrimination, quota or favouritism based on such "protected characteristics" in education, in employment, during commercial transactions, at private clubs or associations, and while using public services.

  5. The Gift (essay) - Wikipedia

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    The Gift has been very influential in anthropology, [3] where there is a large field of study devoted to reciprocity and exchange. [4] It has also influenced philosophers, artists, and political activists, including Georges Bataille, Jacques Derrida, Jean Baudrillard, and more recently the work of David Graeber and the theologians John Milbank and Jean-Luc Marion.

  6. Household responsibility system - Wikipedia

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    The household responsibility system replaced collective farming. [1]: 163 In the household responsibility systems, households contributed to state quotas but could also make their own decisions about what to plant on contracted land and could sell via a multi-tier price system that included the lowest price for payment to the state up until the quota, a higher rate for above-quota sales to the ...

  7. Quota rule - Wikipedia

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    Therefore, the quota rule states that the only two allocations allowed for party A are 1 or 2 seats on the council. If there is a second party, B , that has 137 members, then the quota rule states that party B gets 137 300 ⋅ 5 ≈ 2.3 {\displaystyle {\frac {137}{300}}\cdot 5\approx 2.3} , rounded up and down equals either 2 or 3 seats.

  8. Economic sociology - Wikipedia

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    Economic sociology is the study of the social cause and effect of various economic phenomena. The field can be broadly divided into a classical period and a ...

  9. Free trade - Wikipedia

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    Two simple ways to understand the proposed benefits of free trade are through David Ricardo's theory of comparative advantage and by analyzing the impact of a tariff or import quota. An economic analysis using the law of supply and demand and the economic effects of a tax can be used to show the theoretical benefits and disadvantages of free trade.