Once the industry-wide scamming or skimming is revealed, the economics of the industry involved are radically altered.
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Or perhaps political instability, a perennial wild card, will resurface and skew the economics of the industry once again.
As gaming moves online, the economics of the industry are changing.
Just this: Two guys or gals in a garage can invent a product that suddenly pulls the rug out from under the prevailing economics of an industry.
Her current research examines women's game play, the economics of the videogame industry and pedagogical uses of games.
The economics of the vaccine industry, he points out, are much like those of software: the marginal cost of each new product is very small.
Garel Rhys, professor of motor industry economics at Cardiff University Business School, points to a swathe of recent investments by Ford, Honda and others, made even though it was clear that Britain would not be in the euro from the outset.
Lastly, recall from earlier this week my post on the economics of the professional golf industry.
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The product and its pricing, as well as the economics and ethics of the industry are all changing.
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Due to the economics of the pension management industry, where far more money can be made from selling products to pensions than from in-depth investigations of investment wrongdoing, there is a chorus of voices denying problems exist and discouraging meaningful investigations.
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For followers of economics, the modern history of the baseball-card industry offers useful lessons about market responses to profit, anti-trust laws, business failure and inflation.
"We are not 100 percent happy with the energy sector, " said Michael Leibrandt, a year 2000 project team member at the Federal Ministry of Economics in Germany said of that nation's utilities industry.
He disagreed that this was good for competition in the books markets and said that the "economics of the e-book industry is quite different to the print industry" because costs are the same up until first copy but after that e-books incur none of costs of printing and distribution.
Even so, says Garel Rhys, professor of motor-industry economics at Cardiff University, car makers keep investing in Britain.
Economics or Freakonomics of the money management industry: There are vast sums of money and substantial market forces at work misleading pensions.
An attractive feature of the industry's economics is the annuity-like income generated from renewals.
Chirayudh Vasuratna, the head of the Senate committee on economics and industry, says he has seen documents relating to this particular transaction.
However, despite the resistance to allowing the laws of economics to operate in the healthcare industry, their reality cannot be denied forever.
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Lady Thatcher's government privatised much of Britain's state-owned industry and ushered in a new era of free market economics, a policy followed by many other governments around the world.
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However, industry skeptics say the economics and the safety of the concept remain untested.
Economics 101 tells us that this is exactly the type of industry in which the banks could gain economies of scale and create tremendous value by consolidation around open industry standards and a common technology platform.
But an events center and football stadium in the City of Industry will not maximize the long term economic development potential that a new facility could have upon the economics of the Los Angeles region.
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Game developers say the industry's economics are shifting, turning the business of cranking out ever costlier "Triple A" games with top-notch stories and graphics into an ever dicier proposition.
"This is an industry where if you get your costs out of line and business is not so good, you're dead, " says Sam Peltzman, a University of Chicago business school economics professor who studies labor and the airline industry.
The sex industry, ever innovative, has proved a trailblazer in the economics of new technologies.
Among the likely winners in the fragmented and mostly small-scale fish producing industry are either suppliers to farmers or companies that can obtain economics of scale in ocean fishing.
"This is an industry where if you get your costs out of line and business is not so good, you're dead, " says Sam Peltzman, an economics professor at the University of Chicago business school who studies labor and the airline industry.
Stars offer something of a safe bet in an otherwise unpredictable industry, according to Arthur De Vany, a professor emeritus of economics at the University of California, Irvine.
David Bailey, Professor of International Business Strategy and Economics at Coventry University, believes Westminster should be supporting the manufacturing industry.
While some will say it's a reach to use the baseball-card industry to explain economics, the economy as we know it is merely the combination of infinite individual decisions made on a daily basis, including those made with baseball cards.
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