Now the Market Rules The parallel development, in the business world, is the rise of consumer power.
Whether this consumer power can stretch into citizen power is an open question.
This article is adapted from a March 2010 BCG report titled Keys to the Kingdom: Unlocking China's Consumer Power.
Consumer power also means you can decide to take an evening off.
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Advocates of the currency say that its launch should lead to greater price transparency, with consumer power across Europe eventually forcing prices lower.
Federal rules limit competition, provide competitive advantage, and reduce consumer power.
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Now, with Purpose, my team and I are in the business of building and sustaining social movements around major global issues, and thinking about how that translates to collective consumer power.
Guy Kawasakis Garage.com (disclosure: I sit on its board) uses the Web to hook up technology startups in Minnesota with angel investors in Silicon Valley. n Consumer power will rise up.
For too long, financial services companies along with manufacturers of autos, computers and other tech and electronic gear have had their heads in the sand about the spiraling consumer power of women.
The batteries themselves make use of the same zinc air technology used in hearing aid batteries, and apparently have the highest energy density of any portable consumer power solution, which translates to about three times the runtime of a similarly sized alkaline or lithium ion battery.
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Acting much like a production tax, regulation pushes prices higher and reduces consumer purchasing power.
If its currency weakens for once, consumer spending power could shrink, in theory, and that could help inflation there, too.
If we can't preserve consumer buying power, a deep recession is inevitable.
In the United States, the deep recession of 1918 damaged consumer purchasing power and convinced many to park their capital in tax free, risk free, bonds.
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This means that economies of networking arise on the demand side of the market, as a result of the strengthening of the consumer bargaining power with product sellers.
The spread of consumer spending power across China means that a company must constantly expand its geographic footprint--but the requirements of scale make it extremely critical to cluster locations appropriately to ensure competitive scale economies.
Temporary factors, including the damping effect of higher food and energy prices on consumer purchasing power and spending as well as supply chain disruptions associated with the tragic events in Japan, appear to account for only some of the recent weakness in economic activity.
PCs, while other versions of Windows power consumer devices and mobile phones.
This iteration seems more compelling in the sense that the chips can monitor grid conditions directly and minimizes the impact on consumer by reducing power consumption in more nuanced ways.
Entergy, one of the nation's largest producers of electric power, says in a legal brief that it needs to plan now to build plants that will deal with an expected doubling in consumer demand for power over the next 50 years.
Mazda has not said how much power the consumer version of the new diesel four-cylinder will generate.
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Spectacular advances in the production of consumer durables, electric power, new appliances, suburban housing, and city skyscrapers highlighted the decade.
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With its latest device, LeapFrog's continuing to fight the good fight: teaching kids essential skills through the power of consumer electronics.
Power and Consumer Reports ratings are not an exact science--much of their data is based on questionnaires and surveys, an inherently subjective game.
The Technology group will power the Consumer and Regions groups, enabling them to provide best products and experiences backed by their infrastructure and platforms.
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The explosive power of consumer fireworks is governed by federal law, which since the 1960s has banned powerful firecrackers with names such as M-80s and cherry bombs.
Nearly three decades ago, the average Indian consumer realized the awesome power of what automation could do for them when the Indian Railways computerized train ticketing system nationwide.
Bradley is moving on to talk about a tool called Application Resource Optimizer, which is intended to make your apps run faster, use less power and consumer bandwidth more efficiently.
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The consumer then buys back the power produced on their roof at a fixed rate.
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